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A Payment Batch is a process used to gather posted payable transactions, that have not been fully settled, and select/un-select transactions to be paid/applied resulting in a summarized list of Vendor Payments. The purpose of this page is to create, update and process Vendor payment batches. Users will be able to search for unapplied or partially applied invoice, credit memo and check payment transactions to include on the payment batch. Payment batches, when posted, automatically apply payable transactions and receivable transactions towards each other to settle vendor balances.

(lightbulb) This record view also contains columns for each Attribute that is set up for the 'Vendors' attribute type. Because these are user defined, they are not included in the default view but can be added a saved layout. Vendor attributes are not included in the help documentation.

To view the help page for the NorthScope 2.0 Build Payment Batch Record View, please click hereBuild Payment Batch Record View. 

Software Version: 2023.03.XX and newer

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Header Toolbar

Toolbar IconsDescription
Delete

 Deletes the transaction, batch, or master file record. When clicked, users will be prompted with: "Are you sure you want to delete this record?". Click "OK" to confirm, or "Cancel" to return without deleting. 

WARNING: Records cannot be recovered once they are deleted!

Help Opens the online WIKI help page for the current page. 
Print Opens the Print dialog window, where transaction and/or analysis reports can be downloaded, printed and/or emailed. 

When clicked, all the Reports that launch from the Print Dialog that are assigned to this page, and that the user has rights to (if Report Data Access is enabled) are displayed.

Process Payments

Opens Process Payments Record View for Vendors, where users can create, print and post check and ACH payments from the payment batch.

Save Saves the changes made to the record. 
Save & Close Saves your changes and closes the page.
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Batch Properties Tab

FieldsDescription
Apply Date

Identifies the date the payment will be applied, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. This is a date picker that defaults to the current date. It is required and if missing, will default to current date on Save. This date will automatically populate the 'Payment Date' field on the Process Payments Record View. This field is editable prior to clicking the Build Batch button. After a payment batch is saved, this field is disabled.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.BatchDate

Apply Expired Discounts

Determines if expired discounts should be applied or not. Any non-expired discounts are applied by default, but the discount amounts can be manually edited. This is a Yes/No lookup that is required. It defaults as "No" and is always editable.

Database Field: EERPx_MFTransactionBatch.ApplyExpiredDiscounts

Batch ID

Displays the name of the batch. This is a single-select standard lookup that allows users to navigate between active batches. The field defaults to (Build New Batch) when the Build Payment Batch Record View is opened. Once the Build Batch button is clicked, this field defaults to the username, formatted as [User First Name] + [User Last Name] + [Previous Batch Number + 1]. Selecting a Batch ID from the lookup will reload the page with the associated fields and transactions grid. This is a system assigned value and is never editable by a user.  A user may have several check batches simultaneously.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.BatchID

Checkbook

Identifies the Checkbook assigned to the transaction.  This is a single-select standard lookup that allows users to select the checkbook that will be used to make the payments. This is required and defaults from the 'Default Vendor Checkbook ID' field on the Vendor Preferences page. This is editable prior to clicking the Build Batch button. After a payment batch is saved, this field is disabled.

Checkbooks represent individual bank accounts (checking, savings, petty cash) that have funds deposited into, or payments made out of, that are reconciled to a bank statement. They are used in the Financial, Fisherman Accounting, Grower Accounting, Purchasing, and Sales Functional Areas to support receiving payments from customers, making payments, deposits, and other bank transactions.

The lookup contains a list of all the 'Active' Checkbooks.

Database Fields: ERPx_MFCheckbook.CheckbookDescription, ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.CheckbookSK

Include Transactions 

Identifies the types of transactions to be included in the payment batch. This is a single-select standard lookup that is required to return results. This defaults as blank. If missing, the message "Include Transactions is required." will be displayed when the Build Batch button is clicked. This field is always editable.

This lookup contains the values in the APBuildCheckInclude Enumeration Class.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.APBuildCheckIncludeEN

One Payment Per

Identifies whether payments should be applied per Document or per Vendor. One payment can be applied towards several invoices simultaneously and also several payment transactions can be used towards one invoice. This is a single-select standard lookup that is required to return results. It defaults as "Vendor" and is editable prior to clicking the Build Batch button. Updating the value to "Document" will automatically update the 'Include Transactions' field to be "Invoices Only". After a payment batch is saved, this field is disabled.

This lookup contains the values in the MFOneCheckPer Enumeration Class.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.MFOneCheckPerEN

Filters Tab

FieldsDescription
Discount Date as of

Identifies the Discount Date to use to filter transactions for the payment batch, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. Invoices and Credit Memos with a Discount Date on or before the defined 'Discount Date as of' field are added to the payment batch. This is a date picker that is not required to return results. This field defaults as blank and is always editable.

The Discount Date represents the last date that Payment Term Discounts apply. 

(lightbulb) Since payment transactions do not have Discount Dates, selecting a 'Discount Date as of' will not exclude payment transactions from the payment batch.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.DiscountDateAsOf

Due Date as of

Identifies the Due Date to use to filter transactions for the payment batch, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference. Invoices and Credit Memos with a Due Date on or before the defined 'Due Date as of' field are added to the payment batch. This is a date picker that is not required to return results. This field defaults as blank and is always editable.

The Due Date represents the date the transaction must be paid by.

(lightbulb) Since payment transactions do not have Due Dates, selecting a 'Due Date as of' will not exclude payment transactions from the payment batch.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.DueDateAsOf

Search
Transaction Class

Identifies the transaction class(es) to be included in the payment batch. This is a multi-select lookup that is not required to return results. It defaults with no Transaction Classes selected and is always editable.

Transaction Classes are used to categorize transactions within transaction types and assign specific default values and business rules for each.

This lookup contains a list of all active Transaction Classes where the TransactionTypeSK is either 1 (Invoice) or 2 (Credit Memo).

(lightbulb)In order to include transactions that are associated with an inactivated Transaction Class, the default option of no Transaction Classes selected should include transactions that are on inactive classes.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.TransactionClassSKCSV

Vendor Class

Used to select a Vendor Class to filter transactions for the payment batch. This is a multi-select lookup that is not required to return results. It defaults as blank and is always editable.

The lookup contains a list of all the 'Active' Vendor Classes.

Vendor Classes are used to identify default values that will be applied to new Vendor accounts and to group Vendor accounts together for reporting purposes. 

Database Fields: ERPx_MFTransactionBatch.VendorClassCSV

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Transactions Grid

The purpose of this grid is to display and manage the individual transactions associated with the payment batch. Transactions that Credit the Accounts Payable Account will be displayed as positive and in black font. Transactions that Debit the Accounts Payable Account will be displayed as negative and in red font, as they will be subtracted from the payment amount. Transactions that are removed will be displayed in blue font. The default grid layout for this grid is grouped by Vendor Name. The group heading displays as "Vendor Name: [VendorName] + ([VendorID])".

Toolbar IconsDescription
Column Filter Show/Hide  Toggles between displaying and hiding a filter row in the grid under the column headers. The filter row will be displayed by default if the Quick Column Filter is also implemented in the page. When enabled, this will allow users to type in text to filter by a specific column.
Excel Exports the contents of the grid to an Excel file that will automatically download. The contents that export are those that are visible to the user. Therefore, if the user has filtered the view, or excluded columns, only the contents in the grid will be exported. 
Group By Show/Hide Toggles between displaying and hiding a row in the grid above the column headers to enable grouping by one or more column(s). Once displayed, users may drag and drop column headers to group by a specific column. Once the grid is grouped by a column(s), a subtotal footer row will display in the grouping for columns that have a page footer total. 
Include Filtered

This button displays the following options: “Include Filtered” and “Include Selected”. This allows users to add previously removed transactions back to the payment batch by selecting/filtering the transactions in the grid and clicking “Include Transactions” and choosing either “Include Filtered” or Include Selected”.

(lightbulb) Included transactions credit the Accounts Payable Account are displayed in black font. Included transactions debit the Accounts Payable Account are displayed in red font.

Quick Column Filter Used to filter across all columns in the grid. When the user types text into the Quick Column Filter text box, the grid's Filter Row will be automatically hidden. The text in the Quick Column Filter text box automatically replaces any existing Filter Row filters. The results of the data immediately refresh as you enter text.
Refresh

 Re-queries the contents of the grid/page based on the Search Options or the default values for grids that do not support Search Options. 

(lightbulb) This ONLY re-queries the contents of columns that are currently visible, if you add a new column the contents will be empty until you click 'Refresh' again.


Builds a payment batch based on filter criteria selected / entered. This icon is only displayed when a new batch is being created, and is replaced with "Append to Batch" after the initial payment batch is created. 

Updates the grid section with new transactions that match the filter criteria. This icon is only displayed after the initial batch is created to allow users to redefine search criteria and add additional transactions to the batch. 

(lightbulb) Append to Batch only adds new transactions to the batch, but does not remove previously added transactions from the batch.

Remove Filtered

This button displays the following options: “Remove Filtered” and “Remove Selected”. If filter criteria have been entered in the grid, and “Remove Filtered” is clicked, the filtered transactions will be removed from the payment batch. If the check box next to the transaction is checked and the “Remove Selected” is clicked, those transactions checked will be removed from the settlement batch.

(lightbulb) Removed transactions are displayed in blue font.

Saved Layouts Displays the column layout lookup and related icons. This tool allows users to select a previously saved layout, create a new layout, save changes to a layout, forget/delete a layout and/or assign a saved layout as the default for the page. Once changes are made to the layout, such as columns are added or removed, the user can click the Save Layout icon and save the changes to the column layout. The visibility of the Filter Row is also saved with a saved layout. The new layout can also be set as the default. This is useful for creating specific views to separate master files or transaction types (i.e. Invoice specific vs. Credit Memo specific).  Default layouts can be removed by clicking the 'Set as Default' button again when the current default layout is selected.  

Please note that existing saved grid layouts will display the Filter Row as hidden by default.

FieldsDescription
CheckboxUsed to select one or more records to perform an action, such as Mass Update, More Actions, or Delete.
Batch Amount

Clicking the Edit Amounts toolbar icon opens a dialog box that allows users to edit the Discount Amount to Take (if applicable) and Max Amount to Pay. The 'Discount Amount to Take' field defaults from the 'Terms Discount Taken' column. This field is disabled if the Payment Terms of the transaction do not allow for discounts. The 'Amount' field defaults from the 'Max Amount to Pay' column.

The 'Amount' entered in the dialog box cannot be greater than the 'Open Amt.' field. If so, the message "The Amount cannot be greater than is left on the transaction." will be displayed on Save & Close. Additionally, the 'Discount Amount to Take' entered in the dialog box cannot be greater than the 'Original Terms Discount Amt.' field. If so, the message "Cannot set a Discount Amount to Take greater than is left on the transaction" will be displayed on Save & Close.

(lightbulb) The Edit Amounts toolbar icon will only open a dialog box when a single transaction is selected.  

Database Fields: ERPx_MFTransactionBatchTransaction.DiscountToConsume, ERPx_MFTransactionBatchTransaction.AmountToConsume

Doc Date

Identifies the date of the transaction. This is a non-editable text box, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference, that is required. For Invoice and Credit Memo transactions, this defaults from the 'Doc Date' field on the 'Home' tab of the Invoice Record View. For Payment transactions, this defaults from the date the payment was created. This field is for information only and never editable.

Database Fields: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.TransactionDate (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.CreatedDate (Payment)

Doc No

Identifies the Doc No (document number) for the transaction. Unlike a Transaction ID that is system assigned based on the Transaction Class of the Transaction Type, this is a manually entered value. This is a non-editable text box that is required. For Invoice and Credit Memo transactions, this defaults from the 'Doc No' field on the 'Home' tab of the associated transaction. For Payment transactions, this defaults from the 'Payment Number' field in the Payment grid of the Process Payments Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

Database Fields: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.DocNumber (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.TransactionID (Payment)

Discount Date

Identifies the Discount Date of the transaction.  This is a non-editable text box, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference, that is not required. This field is only displayed if the Payment Terms of the transaction allows for discounts. It defaults from the 'Discount Date' field on the 'Properties' tab of the Invoice Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

The Discount Date represents the last date that Payment Term Discounts apply. 

Database Field: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.DiscountDate

Due Date

Identifies the Due Date of the transaction.  This is a non-editable text box, formatted from the users 'Date Format' preference, that is sometimes required. This field is only required on Invoice and Credit Memo transactions. It defaults from the 'Due Date' field on the 'Properties' tab of the Invoice Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

The Due Date represents the date the transaction must be paid by.

Database Field: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.DueDate

Max Amount to Pay

Identifies the maximum amount to be paid for the document. This is a non-editable text box that is required. This field is calculated as [Open Amount] - [Terms Discount Taken] - [Previous Payment Applications]. This field can be edited by clicking the 'Edit Amounts' icon in the grid header and entering a amount in the 'Amount' field on the Edit Amounts dialog box. This field is always editable from the Edit Amounts dialog box.

(lightbulb) For transactions that Credit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as positive. For transactions that Debit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as negative.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatchTransaction.AmountToConsume

Open Amt.

Displays the amount due for payment on the transaction. This is a non-editable text box that is required. It is calculated as [Orig. Trans. Amt] - previous applications. This field is for information only and never editable. This field is not stored in the database.

(lightbulb) For transactions that Credit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as positive. For transactions that Debit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as negative.

Orig. Trans. Amt.

Displays the total amount of the transaction. This is a non-editable text box that is required. For Invoice and Credit Memo transactions, this defaults from the 'Amount' field on the 'Home' tab of the Invoice Record View. For Payment transactions, this comes from the 'Amount' field for the specific check or ACH payment on the Process Payments Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

(lightbulb) For transactions that Credit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as positive. For transactions that Debit the Accounts Payable Account, this field will display as negative.

Database Fields: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.ExtendedAmount (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.Amount (Payment)

Orig. Terms Discount Amt.

Displays the original discount amount. This is a non-editable text box that is not required. It is calculated based on the Payment Terms associated with the transaction by using the [Percent of Discount] x [Amount] if the Payment Terms of the transaction allows for discounts. This field is for information only and never editable. It is not stored in the database.

Terms Discount Amt. Not Taken

Displays the discount amount that has not been used yet. This is a non-editable text box that is not required. It is calculated as [Orig. Terms Discount Amt.] - [Terms Discount Taken] if the Payment Terms of the transaction allows for discounts. Else, it will default as "0.00". This field will be automatically updated if the 'Terms Discount Taken' field is updated. This field is for information only and never editable. It is not stored in the database.

Terms Discount Taken

Identifies the amount of discount applied to the transaction. This is a non-editable text box that is not required. It defaults from the 'Orig. Terms Discount Amt.' field when:

  • The discount is not expired.
  • The discount is expired, but the ‘Apply Expired Discounts’ is set to Yes.

This defaults to "0.00" if the discount is expired and the ‘Apply Expired Discounts’ is set to No. It also defaults to "0.00" when the Payment Terms of the transaction do not allow for discounts. This field is only editable on the Edit Amounts dialog box if the Payment Terms of the transaction allows for discounts.

Database Field: ERPx_MFTransactionBatchTransaction.DiscountToConsume

Transaction

Identifies the unique Transaction ID for each transaction. Clicking on this link opens the transaction record view for the selected record. For Invoice and Credit Memo transactions, this is a system assigned number that comes from the associated Transaction Class and is required. For Payment transactions, this is a system assigned number that comes from the 'Next Check #' field for the associated Checkbook on the Checkbooks List View and is required. This field is never editable.

Transaction numbers are system assigned IDs to differentiate unique transactions. Transaction ID's are unique by the unique combination of 'Transaction Type' + 'Transaction Class'.

Database Fields: ERPx_APTransactionHeader.TransactionID (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.TransactionID (Payment)

Transaction Class

The unique identifier of the Transaction Class. This is a non-editable text box that is required for Invoice and Credit Memo transactions. It defaults from the 'Transaction Class' field on the 'Properties' tab of the Invoice Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

Transaction Classes are used to categorize transactions within transaction types and assign specific default values and business rules for each.

Database Fields: APTransactionClass.TransactionClassDescription, ERPx_APTransactionHeader.TransactionClassSK

Transaction Type

Identifies the Transaction Type for each transaction. This is a non-editable text box that is required. This defaults from the Transaction Type selected when creating a new transaction. This field is for information only and never editable.

Transaction Types are used to differentiate unique types transactions within the system. Transactions with the same Transaction Type share the same record view pages and business rules. Transaction Types can be further classified using Transaction Classes. Every transaction in the system is assigned a Transaction Type.

Database Fields: ERPx_APTransactionType.TransactionName, ERPx_APTransactionClass.TransactionTypeSK, ERPx_APTransactionHeader.TransactionClassSK (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.TransactionTypeSK (Payment)

Vendor Name

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This is a non-editable text box that is required. For Invoice and Credit Memo transactions, it defaults from the 'Vendor' field on the 'Home' tab of the Invoice Record View. For Payment transactions, this defaults from the 'Account' field on the Payments grid of the Process Payments Record View. This field is for information only and never editable.

A Vendor is a company or person that sells goods or services to your company. They are used in Purchasing and on Brokerage Sales Programs.

Database Fields: ERPx_APVendor.VendorName (ERPx_APVendor.VendorID), ERPx_APTransactionHeader.VendorSK (Invoice/Credit Memo), ERPx_MFCheckbookTransaction.EntitySK (Payment)

Related Topics

User Guide: Vendor Balances


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