The Main tab provides general information on the origin of documents included in this statement: entity, company, contract, and period of time.

On the Main tab, the following fields are required: Company, Contract, Entity, From Date, and To.


The Statement of Account (create) form. The Main tab

<Auto> in the Number field indicates that an internal number for this document is assigned automatically when you save the document. The From field is populated automatically with the current business date. You can select another date, if necessary.

In the Company field, you can select a company (legal entity) who is your supplier or customer.

The Contract field is populated with the default contract of the selected company. If necessary, you can replace it with any contract from the Company's Contracts list (to open the list, click the arrow button and then select Show all).

In the Entity field, select an entity of your company which is responsible for the document. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on: Administration > Settings > General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents; for this, refer to Personal Settings. If you have not selected your default entity, the entity defined first will be used as the system default value.

In the Responsible field, select an employee who is responsible for the transactions with the selected company.

The Reconciled check box (if selected) indicates that the list of documents is reconciles with the company.

Use the From Data field to specify the starting date of the date range for which you want to review the data. Use the To field to specify the ending date of the date range for which you want to review the data.

You can use the button to open the Select Period dialog box.


The Select Period dialog box

Using this dialog box, you can select a date range including multiple financial periods. Select the periods of interest and click the Select button to close the dialog box and populate the From Date and To fields.

Once you are done with period selection, click Select or save the period and close the dialog box. Click Cancel to close the dialog box without selecting the dates.

The document totals and other Information

At the bottom of the form, the Balance on Start Data and Balance on End Date fields show the selected customer or supplier account balances at the start and end dates of the specified period.

Also, you can view who created this document and the current status of the document; it can be one of the following:

  • New (document was created, but not recorded to the database)
  • Not Posted (document was recorded, but not posted)
  • Posted (document was posted)
  • Marked for Deletion (document was marked to be deleted)

The toolbar buttons

After filling out the tab, click the Save button to save your work. After filling out all the tabs, click Post to post the document without closing it or Post and close to post and close the document.
or descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.



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