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Use this form to create and maintain groups of customers that share key parameters, such as:

  • Terms of payment

  • Settle period

  • Inventory posting ledger accounts, including sales tax group

You must create at least one customer group, because you must attach a customer group to each customer that you create in the form.

Tasks that use this form

Navigating the form

The following tables provide descriptions for the controls in this form.

Tabs

Tab

Description

Overview tab

Create and view the customer groups.

General tab

View overview information for the customer group that is selected on the tab.

Buttons

Button

Description

Click to set up, for the selected customer group, ledger accounts for automatic ledger transactions that are generated by the receipt and issue of inventory.

Set up a sales forecast for the customer group that is selected on the tab.

Fields

Field

Description

Enter a unique identifier or short name for the customer group.

Specify the terms of payment that correspond to the default period between the sale of an item and the payment due date on invoices for customers in the selected customer group. The terms of payment are used in the cash flow forecast that is based on sales or sales budgets for customer groups. You set up terms of payment in the form.

Example

You set up a sales budget for a customer group and budget a sale of 10,000 for June 15. You then specify Current month + 30 days for the terms of payment. The cash flow forecast then shows that the budgeted sale of 10,000 is due for payment on July 30.

Specify the standard interval between the due date for payments from customers in the selected customer group (defined by the terms of payment) and the date on which the payments are received in your bank account. The interval is typically a number of days, for example 2D, 3D, or 4D.

The value in this field allows you to calculate liquidity on the basis of the cash flow forecast.

Example

You set up a sales budget for a customer group and budget a sale of 10,000 for June 15. You specify Current month + 30 days in the field, and 2 days net in the field. The payment of 10,000 for the customer group is calculated in the cash flow forecast as received in the bank account on August 1.

A short description of the customer group.

In any form in which the field appears, move the mouse pointer over the value in the field to see this description.

Enter or select a default tax group for the selected customer group.

Select the default payment ID type.

Note Note

(NOR) This field is available only if the configuration key for Norway is selected.


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