Accounting Configuration tools encompass Categories related to transaction types, setup for automated processes including payment and Shipping Services and additional tools. This chapter will address each of the Setup and Configure tools in detail.

The Accounting Configuration Preferences are located within the first icon on your screen from left to right. Within the Accounting section you have the tools to add and customizes preferences including:

• Payment and Deposit Types
• Credit Card and additional Payment preferences
• Shipping Methods and Services
• Payment Services including Ecommerce payments systems 
• Categories and Preferences for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Accounting includes a number of sections that will need to be Setup for you to use Tradepoint to its fullest capacity. The image below shows the areas within Accounting that will require configuration.

Accounts Payable

The Accounts Payable setup and configure tools are illustrated below.

Bill Adjustment Types - This will enable Categories within the drop down tab of the field for Bill Adjustments. Each Bill Adjustment Type you create here will then appear within the drop down field for Bill Adjustments.

Payment Types - Payment Types will pre-populate the drop down menu for the screen for Payments on Invoices and Orders.

Transfer Types - Transfer Types will pre-populate the screen for Transfers within your General Ledger. When a Transfer is chosen you will have different types of Transfer entries that you be able to make within the General Ledger based on the Transfer types you create within the Setup and Configure Tool.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable Configuration is illustrated in the example below.

Invoice Adjustment Types - This option will show up within Invoices for the drop down menu for Adjustments.

Payment Types - Your Orders and Invoices will bring up the options you setup for Payment types within the Setup and Configure tool.

Note: Even if you setup all of your preference within the Setup and Configure Tool directly here you will have the option of adding to any field where you see the Blue Plus.

Deposit Types

Deposit Types are accessible through a drop down tool each time a Deposit is made through the General Ledger.

The example image above shows 3 examples of different deposit types. A Deposit Type will be selected for each Deposit. Creating a new Deposit Type can be done through the new icon in the lower left corner of the Setup and Configure Tool or through the Blue Plus in the Deposit type field within your General Ledger.

Refund Reasons

Refund Reasons defines the type of Refund you will need to account for within any RMA processes you may have in. The image below shows a few examples of Refund Types. The Setup and Configure Tool will allow you to add numerous types of Refund reasons if need be.

Credit Card Types

Credit card Types allow you to add new Credit Card Types which will flow through to Invoice and Order payment options within the drop down menu of the payment screen or either of those functions.

Clicking the new Credit Card Type icon  in the lower left corner will open the window to specify the Type of Card, number of Digits on the card and the number of digits for the Security Code on the back of the card.

Freight Terms

Settings for Freight Term are established within this section of the Setup and Configure Tool.

Freight Terms will show up as drop down menu items for fields located within the Account section of a Customer, Reseller, or Supplier as an Account preference within a Customer, Reseller, or Supplier.

Payment Terms

Payment terms is the preference that is setup in this section which in turn will become a drop down menu option within Bills. This option is customizable through the Setup and Configure tool directly or through the blue plus found within the Bill window.

The view from a Bill is shown below.

The circled blue plus in the image above will take you to the image show below within the Setup and Configure Tool.

Shipping

The Setup and Configure Tool includes preferences for live shipping modules and related preferences as well as shipping tables that can be created should you lose your Internet connection for any length of time.

The Shipping sub-section of the Setup and Configure Tool includes two sections to be configured to setup your shipping.

Shipping Methods: This will allow you to configure a live shipping module as well as related preferences.

This example shows several existing Shipping methods and individual preferences related to your Shipping Method on the right of the screen view.

Max Amount for Chargeable Shipping - This Preference allows you to provide free shipping for Orders higher than a specific amount. The example above shows that all orders up to $350 will be charged shipping and anything above that amount will be Free Shipping. When this preference is set  all Orders past that amount will not be charged Shipping. This setting will have to be set with all shipping carriers you have setup within your Tradepoint.

Shipping Service - This is the live Shipping Service you have set up within your Shipping Services. When you setup your Account information for the live shipping service (with your login and password) the live shipping Service will pull the live shipping data specific to your Account into each Order and/or Invoice. The drop down menu here will show the live shipping modules available within Tradepoint. Choose the one that corresponds to this Shipping Method you have created.

Service Type - The Service Type include a drop down menu of all of the service types provided by that carrier. Choose one for this Shipping Method that you have created. In the case shown below multiple shipping services are available to you.

If you use multiple shipping services for one carrier you will need to Setup and Configure each Shipping Service within a Shipping Method. In the case shown above all the available shipping services offered by UPS are available within this drop down menu shown in the image above.

Note: If you use UPS Overnight Air, Two Day and Three Day Service you will need to have a Shipping Method configured for each of those Services. The result will be seen in Orders where the customer preference will be picked up automatically within their Orders if the preferred shipping has been specified within their Account or when if they became a customer through the web portal.

Shipping Service Rate Markup - This is a markup that can beaded to your shipping to cover and handling fees. If there is any percentage specified within this field then all Orders for this Shipping Method will automatically have the increase in price added to the overall shipping cost.

Add/Edit Billing Tables - Should you lose your Internet connection and are unable to receive live shipping data you have Billing tables that can be added to provide shipping rates based on weight and destination. Most carriers provide online shipping tables for each of the services they offer. The example shown below is a ficticious example to illustrate the functionality of the Billing Tables.

This table has to be manually entered based on information available from the different carriers. A few things to remember about this table structure:

• The name field designates the weight range. This can be different from a table provided by your shipper for smaller (and as a result more accurate weight ranges) weight ranges. If you choose a different weight range than what your carrier provides you will have to calculate the Min and Max weight.The Location field provides options for destination. The other choices include City, Province/State and International. If the carrier uses ranges(most do) then choose the National setting and one of the higher ranges for more accurate approximation for your tables.
• Weight Min/Weight Max will be the increment of weight for the range in a field. The example above shows Pounds and the Weight Min/Weight Max broken down into ounces for more accuracy. These fields have built in calculators that will allow you to use the mouse or the keypad on a keyboard to perform calculations. 
• The Cost(to you) field in most cases will be blank since shipping is something that is paid for after the fact.
• The Customer Cost field will be the cost to the customer. This will pre-populate in the Order or Invoice based on the weights attached to your Products from your Inventory and will be generated automatically should you not have an Internet connection for live shipping data.

Save your changes when you are done. Otherwise all the data that was just entered will be lost and have to be re-entered again.

Note - Billing Tables are OPTIONAL and not required. It is designed to be a fail safe for automated live Shipping tools or is designed to be a manual shipping process for businesses that are service oriented or who do very little shipping.

Shipping Services

Shipping Services works in conjunction with Shipping Methods. The shipping Services will specify the details of the electronic Shipping Services you require while the Shipping method will include details about your overall Shipping needs and not just the configuration for the electronic component for the live shipping.

 The image below shows an example of one automatic shipping option. Depending on the requirements of the carrier the fields may vary somewhat.

The Carrier's Server information will be pre-configured into some of the fields and you will have to enter in any login and password information necessary to access your specific shipping information for that carrier.

When you have entered your Account login information your changes will be saved automatically. Now whenever this shipper is specified or if this Shipper is the default then the rate will be generated automatically based on your preferences setup within the Setup and Configure Tool.

When you close the Setup and Configure window your changes will be automatically saved.

Payment Services

This is where your settings (login information, etc.) for your electronic or web payments are entered into Tradepoint. Once this is entered here then electronic payments are processed based on the preferences set within the Setup and Configure Tool.

Your established preferences will flow through to the respective screens for web and phone based Orders, and the result will be the functionality for your electronic payments will become active.

The example above shows a basic field set for Authorize.net. This structure allows for a test mode to test out your payment system before you go live and will also be controlled by security settings for after you go live.

When all of your payment services have been established you will have these options show up within the Payment Information section within Orders as a part of the drop down menus available for taking orders and will also appear automatically within your Ecommerce module for any online transactions.