In organizations that use centralized payment processing, each operating company manages its own invoices receivable information and payments from customers are received by a central company, called the payment company. Use this procedure to select invoices to settle. For more information, see Post customer payments by using a payment proposal.

1. Click Accounts receivable> Journals> Payments> Payment journal .

2. Create a journal and click Lines. For information about how to create a journal, see Create and validate a journal and journal lines.

3. In the Journal voucherform, click Payment proposal> Create payment proposal.

4. In the Customer payment proposalform, select the type of payment proposal to create in the Proposal typefield.

5. Enter a range of payment dates to include in the payment proposal.

6. Select the Include customer invoices from other companiescheck box.

   Note
   By default, the payment proposal includes invoices for all companies that are included within the virtual company that is set up for centralized payments. If necessary, you can click Selectand use the Company Rangetab to select a subset of companies whose invoices you want to include in the payment proposal.

7. To create a separate payment for each customer account in each company, select the Propose separate customer payment per companycheck box.

   To create a single payment for each customer account that includes invoices for that that customer in all selected companies, clear this check box.

8. You can select a default offset account type and a default offset account.

   Note
   If you do not select an account type, the account type for each payment is based on the method of payment.

9. Add other criteria as appropriate in the other fields in this form, and click OK.