Manually creating a General Ledger structure is ideal if you are a new company and using Tradepoint for the first time. We do recommend you consulting an Accounting professional if you are looking to create your General Ledger manually.

Setting up your General Ledger manually can be done with the tools available in Tradepoint. After you have setup basic Company Parameters within the Company Setup section of the Tools Tab Toolbar you will be ready to establish your General Ledger.

Clicking on the Tools tab and then the Company icon as shown below will take you to where you establish your company profile and General Ledger.

From there you will see the main screen where you add you Contact information if you have not already done so. The tool bar will look like the example you see below. The next step will be to click on the Division icon that you see highlighted.

If you have established the basic information including Contact Information and at least one Company Division (if that is relevant to your company structure) you will be ready to manually set up the General Ledger for your Company.

The tools available for each Company Division are shown in the tool bar below with the icon for the General Ledger highlighted.

The Chart of Accounts will need to be setup before you can assign any shipping, invoicing, and ordering preferences since you will be prompted to associate certain accounts with some of those preferences. 

The Main window for manually establishing your Chart of Accounts is shown below. As the Account structure is listed it will be shown in the manner you see below.

Clicking the New Root Account icon on the lower right will open a field in the listed accounts and it will activate the New Child Account icon. Two examples of Child Accounts are circled. The New Sibling Account icon will open a Sibling Account just below and Child Account when clicked

Name: The name of the Account is established by typing the name of the Account into the respective fields.

Account#:  The Account Number is assigned manually by typing it into the field.

Opening Date: The Opening Date will be the day the account was created unless you use the built in calendar to specify a different date.

Opening Balance:  Opening Balances are also added manually by typing the amount into the field or using the built in calculator to enter the correct amount.

Type:  The Type column on the far right contains a drop down menu with the different account types embedded for you to choose from.

The Total number of Accounts will be shown on the left in the window towards the bottom.

Save your changes here. While establishing your Company's preferences you will be allowed to go through different windows to specify preferences without being prompted to Save your changes so, be sure to Save your changes.

If you try to close the Company Setup window and you have not Saved your changes you will be prompted to Save your changes before Tradepoint will allow you to close the Company Setup window.