MAJOR FEATURES OF THE DPS ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE INCLUDE:
- Hot Key access to summary customer information from within any process in the system
- A special screen display showing a rolling 12 months aging summary for each customer, to assist in analyzing credit trends
- Customer groupings allow for major and minor customer classifications for sales analysis and for special pricing
- Multiple salesmen can exist for each customer
- Credit limit and past due grace periods
- Open invoice statements
- Automatic late charges can vary by customer, including printing or faxing late charge invoices
- Customer pricing includes a specified price level, discount level, or special pricing by customer/customer group by inventory item/product class
- Future due invoice dating allows for special payment terms without distorting aging categories
- Sales tax reporting by state, county, and local jurisdictions
- A complete system for tracking bad debt write-offs, including the option to continue sending monthly statements
- An inquiry process which will notify the operator of which invoices were marked paid with a particular customer check number – this information may be faxed directly to the customer
- Credit memo and return authorization processes include option to return to stock and to access a history screen of items previously sold to the customer to quickly verify pricing and quantities, including automatic restock charge options
- Cash application to invoices includes split payment, discounts taken, unapplied cash amounts with operator entered notes, and miscellaneous account/invoice balance adjustments and write-offs
- If multiple employees are involved in the collection of cash, the system provides for tracking of transactions at the “cash drawer” level
- Printing of bank deposit slips based on cash/check entry and the distributor’s checking account information
- The “start over” features within cash application allows the operator to quickly undo all payments for a particular check and start the application process again
- Flexible system for tracking unauthorized deductions made by customers and options to debit the deductions back to the customer
- Credit review of orders on hold allows option to release on account, COD, cash-in-advance or cancel the order
- Feature to allow the credit manager to enter an amount which the delivery driver is required to pick up from a customer when the next delivery is made – special form is produced to notify the driver
- Automatic interface to the general ledger subsystem for all invoice and cash transactions postings
- Complete array of reports covering aging and delinquent account analysis, invoice and credit memo registers, and cash receipts journals
- Daily management reports include:
. Accounts Receivable posting reports to G/L
. Invoice Register with complete gross profit analysis
. Daily verification of A/R balances
. Daily verification of A/P balances
. Daily verification of inventory values
. Snapshot of bank account balance
. Snapshot of daily, monthly, and yearly sales and profits
. The business owner may receive a daily email outlining critical information to his/her personal email account
- Complete tracking of all NSF checks received and subsequent payments applied again them
- Calculation of average days to pay by customer with rolling analysis
- Calculation of average days beyond due date and beyond invoice date by customer with rolling analysis
- Calculation of highest credit extended to customer with 12 month history
- Automatic generation of dunning notices for past due accounts
- Bonus points processing and reporting to notify customers of their “overbilling” balances
- Multiple bonus points programs may be active at one time, allowing for customers to qualify for multiple trips/promotions at the same time
- Both vendor and customer rebate tracking systems with file back processes to the major manufacturers
- Credit management “tickler” system by customer allows your credit manager to track discussions with and promises made by customers with specified follow-up dates – the system will then prompt the credit manager on the appropriate date for follow-up action – the system will even allow this to be invoice specific
- Order/invoice detail is available for very lengthy time periods – operators may view invoice history including payment details and even reprint invoices that were paid months/years before – many clients now use these features to eliminate boxes and boxes of invoice copies and other filing
- For those customers that may have more than one order delivered at a time, the billing system will assure that applicable delivery charges are posted to only a single order delivered on a particular day
- If after applying a customer check to open invoices there is a small balance left over, the system will automatically write-off that balance to cash discounts – the distributor sets up the amount to be used in the system parameter files
- Operators may enter explanations for unapplied cash entries that are then displayed throughout screens and reports
- Automatic process for sending out credit inquires on new accounts to other distributors and manufacturers
- Automatic process for responding to credit inquiries received from other distributors and manufacturers about customers
- Automatic process for faxing your credit application, including tax forms, to prospective new customers
- Many DPS clients now choose to fax their daily invoices and monthly customer statements to their customers with fax machines, saving hundreds and even thousands a year on mailing charges
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