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Beginning Balance Difference – Unassigned Vendor or Customer

Conditions in which UNASSIGNED VENDOR appears on AP Aging Report The UNASSIGNED VENDOR is a System Generated Vendor that appears on the AP Aging Report when the following conditions occur: 1. A difference exists between the AP Beginning Balance (the opening balance for the Accounts Payable GL Account) and the sum of all imported Open AP Invoices Beginning Balance transactions (AP Invoice – Beginning Balance transactions that were imported at cut-over). In addition to appearing on the AP Aging report, the ‘System Setup’ tab will be present in the ‘To Do Checklist’ notifying the User that the AP Beginning Balance … Continued

Payment Terms

Payment Terms are used throughout Restaurant365 to specify the Terms in which a payment should be received. There are five Payment Term Pre-sets that exist when the system is created. Apart from those five payment terms, users will need to create and manage the Payment Terms necessary for their organization. Create Payment Terms To Create a new Payment Term, hover over Administration on the top ribbon, and click New Payment Term. Additionally you can type in the name of a Payment Term in any Payment Terms selector boxes (on Customer, AP/AR Invoices etc.) and if the record does not exist, … Continued

Customer Record

The Customer Record is where the Customer specific information for each Customer resides in the system. Once you have opened a Customer Record, the General Tab of the record will be displayed. In addition to the information found on the General tab, Customer Additional Info, Customer related Open Transactions, Customer related All Transactions, Customer related Contacts, and Customer Locations are available to users. Additionally, for those using the Franchising Module, Franchisee Additional Info will also be made available on Customers identified as Franchisee Location Customers. To add a new Customer, hover over the Customer tab in the top ribbon, and click New Customer. This will open up a new tab with … Continued

Move Customer List From Quickbooks to Restaurant365

If you use Quickbooks and are now setting up Restaurant365, moving your customer list over is easy. Just follow the steps below: In Quickbooks go to Reports – List and run the Customer Contact List report On this report click the “Customize Report” button in the upper left corner In the window that pops up, in the Columns box, select the following columns (and uncheck any others that might be selected). Be sure to choose this exact list of columns, then click OK Active Status, Customer, Phone, Fax, Contact, Bill From 1, Bill From Street 1, Bill From Street 2, Bill From City, … Continued

Adding a Contact

You can add new contacts in Restaurant365 in various areas of the different modules. In most cases, your contact is related to a Vendor or Customer. If so, it is best to open the Vendor or Customer Record, and directly add the Contact in the Contact Section. Adding from this areas is the most streamlined approach, because it automatically links the Contact to a Record, and it auto-populates the address and phone information for ease of entry. To add a Contact click on ‘Primary Contact’ or type a value in to the Primary Contact field and then hit tab or enter. This will … Continued

Autonumbering

In Resaurant365, unique identifiers are important for numerous reasons. To allow for the easy creation of unique records, many transactions have an Autonumbering feature that is managed under the Administration section of the Accounting Module. When selected, the Autonumbering Next XX # (1) will be displayed next to the Prefix (if any) (2) as shown below. To save any adjustments to the next number, or prefix, be sure to click the Submit button to the right of each Autonumbering line item.

Add a New Sales Item

To begin the process of adding a New Sales Item to Restaurant365, hover over Item in the top ribbon and click New Sales Item. The ‘New Item’ window appears with the Item Type set to ‘Sell Only’ A sales item is something you are going to sell to a customer but are not going to enter in your point of sale system. It may be something such as consulting services or rental of party equipment. It is an item that you will add to an invoice and send to your customers for payment with terms. As an example, I’ll … Continued

AR Credit Memo

The AR Credit Memo is part of Accounts Receivable within the Accounting module of Restaurant365. They are generally used to apply to AR Invoices (cancel out the invoice) by issuing a credit to a customer. To create a credit memo, select Customer – Credit Memo in the top main ribbon. Fill out the required fields: Number – number of credit memo. This is usually an auto generated sequential number managed under Accounting – Administration – Auto Numbering in left hand navigation Customer Date Location Fill out other non-required fields as desired such as Comment and Address (address is entered by hitting … Continued

AR Invoice

The AR Invoice is part of Accounts Receivable within the Accounting module of Restaurant365. The AR Invoice is used to generate a professional invoice to provide to customers for services or goods you sell them billed separately from your point of sale system. A few examples of this would be to bill house accounts for food provided during the month or to bill for a speaking assignment at a trade show. For information on billing house accounts specifically, click the following link: Setting Up and Using House Accounts Before we begin entering an invoice, we must first have setup Sales Items. … Continued

Franchising Module Overview

The franchising module assists restaurant groups in tracking franchisees, each franchisee location, contracts, franchisee daily sales, and automates franchisee billing/ACH payment collection. To access this module, select it from the drop down at the top of the left hand navigation pane. Below is a brief description of the different elements of this module: Franchisee – this is the top level franchisee that may own 1 or more franchise location stores. On this record you store details about this franchisee, how you will bill them, view their list of stores, and create and view people who are your contacts at this franchisee. … Continued