Accounts Payable puts you in charge of the entire payable process - from the minute invoices come in your door, through the approval process, payment selection and cheque printing.
Accounts Receivable gives you the tools to stay in touch with clients and on top of receivables to proactively manage your cash position.
Billing can accommodate all your customer invoicing needs. Use it to automatically produce time-and-material, cost plus, lump sum progress billing and easily create free-form invoices independent of your contracts at any time.
Cash Management is an easy-to-use tool that lets you view and track cash transactions generated in Accounting's Accounts Payable, Payroll, Accounts Receivable, Job Cost and Property Management applications and reconcile them with your companies bank statements and general ledger.
Accounting's fully integrated Equipment Cost module tracks ownership, maintenance, cost, revenue, location and profitability for every piece of equipment in your fleet.
Included as a component of Accounting's General Ledger application, the Financial Statement Designer allows you to quickly and efficiently modify Accounting's predefined financial statements or create your own custom statements from scratch.
General Ledger is Accounting's storehouse for financial activity and history. Accounting information generated in other Accounting modules flows seamlessly to General Ledger where it's stored in an account format that you customise to fit your business.
Information Assistant provides quick push-button direct access to Accounting reports and inquiries without requiring access to one of the core accounting applications, making it the perfect tool for your employees who need Accounting data, but don't want to use accounting software to get it.
A complete Accounting package contains more than 500 standard reports. Report Designer gives you the ability to quickly and easily modify them or create your own.
Provided with the Accounts Receivable application, Contracts tracks the details of your customer agreements in one convenient location.
Accounting accounting applications come with more than 100 standard inquiries, each of which provides instant onscreen access to business and accounting information.
Accounting inventory is a complete stock control application designed to keep you on top of all aspects of material management.
Job Cost collects all project-related information and stores it in a format you customise to fit your business.
Service Management helps you to communicate more effectively with customers by giving you quick, ready access to vital service information.
These days access to information means everything. That's why Sage Timberline offers you the flexibility to extend your reach through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).
Accounting Payroll processes even the most complex construction payrolls automatically. Through Accounting's integration, information generated in Payroll flows seamlessly throughout the software to help you monitor and control labour costs.
Sage Timberline Accounting Property Management software does more than just generate rent charges and print statements. It integrates your accounting and lease management into one, complete system - designed to work on your terms.
Accounting Purchasing gives you the tools to stay on top of material acquisition while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
Remote time entry is an efficient tool designed to enhance payroll productivity and labour cost management.
Sage Timberline Project Management will simplify the way you manage projects, by allowing total integration of your accounting, estimating and project management teams.
WMS allows easy integration between your estimating and accounting products. Includes sending purchase orders.
Estimating provides the tools you need to streamline your entire estimating process from designing an estimate to final bill of quantities.
Document Mangager provides a repository for documents your company recieves that the entire company can access.
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Accounts Receivable gives you the tools to stay in touch with clients and on top of receivables to proactively manage your cash position.
Accounts Receivable records complete client profiles to help monitor relationships and facilitate timely payments. A customer contacts list records titles, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and other vital information to help you target communications. And a built-in correspondence log tracks client communications to help you follow up on concerns.

Solid accounting capabilities makes it simple to process cash receipts accurately and quickly. Automatically post payments to the oldest outstanding invoice or manually post to individual invoices or items. Enter unapplied customer payments, miscellaneous and job cost receipts all in one session. And easily issue debit and credit adjustments as needed.
Using Sage Timberline Accounting's access tools, your receivables information is always immediately available. Interactive inquiries let you view stored information in seconds for quick lookups and over-the-phone answers. And customisable reports let you calculate and print information in any format you choose for in-depth receivables and analysis.
Following is a detailed list of the features Accounts Receivable offers to help you manage your cash receipts and client information:

Customer Tracking

  • Record payments, credit histories, default billing information, rate tables, invoice formats and more.
  • Track customer totals by aging categories, outstanding amount, billed amount, payments, retention and more.
  • Track last aging date, average days to pay and average outstanding balance to monitor your customer's payment history.
  • Define your own aging periods and label them with a custom description.
  • Use the invoice date or invoice due date to age customer balances by days or months.
  • Establish customer credit limits and ratings.
  • Maintain a customer correspondence log to enhance communication (for example, log phone conversations, letters, memos, faxes).
  • Link correspondence to customers, contracts, contract items, change orders, invoices, jobs, extras, cost codes and cash receipts.
  • Track correspondence follow-up dates.
  • Maintain an online address book of customer contacts.
  • Track to-do's with a customer checklist (for example, credit checks, references).
  • Apply tax-exempt status to billable items using a customised list (for example, exempt, not exempt, total billed, subcontractor, labour, equipment.)
  • Select tax exemption by type of cost for a customer or contract item.
  • Add up to 250 user-defined data fields to track additional customer information.
  • Ability to create or modify tax invoices and adjustments notes.

Invoice Entry

  • Enter manual invoices or electronically import invoices produced by other systems (if using Sage Timberline Accounting Billing, invoice information is automatically sent to Accounts Receivable)
  • Customise the invoice entry window.
  • Predefine "days-before-due" for each customer to automatically assign invoice due dates.
  • Automatic bill retention by customer, contract, contract item, job or cost code.
  • Print invoices using a format you specify.

Cash Receipt Entry

  • define Deposit Type (For Example, cheque, TT, transfer)
  • Enter Unapplied customer payments, miscellaneous payments, job cost receipts and other cash receipts in a single entry session.
  • Distributed payments as needed (for example, distribute billed amounts to invoices, GL accounts, customer cash receipts, jobs, contract items, cost types and more.
  • Automatically post payments to the longest outstanding invoice or manually post to specific invoices of invoice items.
  • Post partial payments.
  • Assign default General Ledger accounts for posting receivables, revenue and miscellaneous entries.
  • Automatically post payment entries to a default bank account.
  • Customise the cash receipts entry window.

Receivable Adjustment

  • Edit and adjust invoices, cash receipts and adjusting entries.
  • Adjust or write off billed amounts.
  • Void invoices and maintain a record of voided invoices for audit purposes.
  • Issue debit and credit adjustments to existing invoices for audit purposes.
  • Apply customer adjustments to invoices.
  • Credit an invoice's unpaid balance.
  • Change the status of an invoice.
  • Mark a cash receipt as NSF.
  • Enter refunds
  • Print debit or credit memos using a format you specify (for example, billed credit, billed debit, AR credit, AR debit, customer credit, customer debit, bad debt, adjustment notes).

Inquiry

  • Chose from 12 pre-designed Accounts Receivable inquiries (for example, Aging, Last Invoice/Receipt, Activity by Contract)
  • Drill down on summary information to view supporting detail (for example, click on a customer to see invoice ageing detail).
  • Apply conditions to display only the information you want to see.
  • View and insert electronic notes and file attachments.
  • Insert columns of data on-the-fly to quickly access additional information.
  • Modify any of the more than 100 inquiries contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new inquiries using the Sage Timberline Accounting Inquiry Designer.

Reporting

  • Choose from 24 pre-designed Accounts Receivable reports to calculate and print information at any time (for example, Cash Projection, Statement of Account Detail/Due Date, Customer Aging Summary)
  • Apply conditions and ranges to print exactly the information you need.
  • Modify nearly all of the more than 500 reports contained in a complete Sage Timberline Accounting Extended system, or create new reports using the Sage Timberline Accounting Report Designer.

Additional Features

  • Enter electronic notes to document explanatory information on customers, contacts, payments, adjustments and invoices.
  • Attach other electronic files to customers, contacts, payments, adjustments and invoices.
  • Customise the toolbar for quick push-button access direct to specific exports, inquiries and tasks.
  • Change onscreen descriptions to match your company's standard terminology.
  • Set up macros for unattended processing of prederfines tasks
  • Define security rights by user or group.
  • Enter invoices to one company but apply cash receipts to another company (intercompany accounting).

Accounts Receivable is one of many applications offered by the Sage Timberline Accounting Suite, Sage Timberline's fully integrated accounting software system for construction and property management firms. Designed for the 32-bit multitasking environments of Windows XP, Sage Timberline Accounting gives you the tools to make better decisions, increase productivity, and, ultimately build profits.

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