Sage Instant Accounts For Dummies

Chapter 7

Dealing with Paperwork from Your Suppliers

In This Chapter

Getting and posting bills

Entering credit notes

Recording supplier payments

Sending remittance advice notes

Managing write offs, refunds and returns

You receive lots of invoices from your suppliers, so you need to put systems in place to enable you to easily locate them if you need them. Sometimes Sage contains enough detail to answer a query about an invoice, but on some occasions you need to pull the actual invoice out of the file.

As you process each invoice, Sage allocates it a sequential transaction number. Use this transaction number as a reference, so you can always track down an invoice quickly and easily.

Receiving and Posting Invoices

You need a good system for capturing all the purchase invoices that come into your business, so that bills get paid, and you can continue doing business. You need two steps to make sure that bills get paid efficiently: receiving the invoices properly and then posting them. ...