Transferring Prepayment Funds

Use the Transfer Prepayment Funds window to transfer customers’ funds from their prepayment accounts to their regular accounts, or from regular credits to prepayment funds. When you make a transfer, the GL is not affected but you will see the transfer on the customer statement.

What you'll find:

Transferring Prepayment Funds to a Regular Credits

Transferring Regular Credits to Prepayment Funds

Deleting/Undoing a Prepayment Transfer

 

To transfer prepayment funds
* indicates a required field

Click the Customer Account toolbar button.
The Find Customer window opens.

Find the customer using the various search criteria.

From the Customer List, select the customer who wants to transfer funds and then click Use Selection.
The Customer Account Information window opens.

Open the Advanced task group by clicking on the down arrow in the title bar.

Click Transfer Prepayment Funds.
The Transfer Prepayment Funds window opens.

Note

Prepayment Balance displays the total amount of prepayment funds currently in the customer’s account.
Account Balance displays the customer's Net Balance.
Unapplied Credits displays the total amount of unapplied credits on the customer's account.

In the Date box, optionally change the date that the prepayment funds are being transferred.
Today’s date is selected by default. You can change this date to a past date, but future dates are not permitted.

(Config U) In the Location* box, enter the location that owns the transfer.

to transfer prepayment funds to regular credits on account

In the Transfer box, enter the amount of funds from the customer’s prepayment account that you want to transfer to the customer’s regular account.
The amount of prepayment funds that you transfer must be less than or equal to the amount of prepayment funds available.
The transfer amount must be greater than 0.

Leave selected the radio button labelled: from Prepayments to Regular Account.
(it is selected by default)

to transfer regular credits on account to prepayment funds

Select the radio button labelled: from Regular Account to Prepayments.

In the Unapplied Credits section, check the Transfer in Full box to transfer the entire credit or enter an Amount to transfer.
The amount of credits that you transfer must be less than or equal to the amount of unapplied credits available, and greater than 0.

In the Comment* box, optionally change the default comment that appears on Customer Statement reports.

Click Save.

(Config C) You may be asked if you'd like to view the AR Adjustment report.

 

Deleting/Undoing a Prepayment Transfer

If prepayment funds were transferred in error, as long as the credits have not been applied the transfer can be deleted. If any of the credits have been applied, unapply them first, then delete the transfer.

To delete a transfer of prepayment funds

On the customer's Account History tab, select either one of the prepayment transfer transactions from the grid (there will be two for each prepayment transfer, a debit and a credit).

Click Delete Item.
Both transactions will be deleted.

In the Transfer box, enter the amount of funds from the customer’s prepayment account that you want to transfer to the customer’s regular account.
The amount of funds that you transfer must be less than or equal to the amount of prepayment funds available.