In Release 3.0, you can devide up the clearing amount for incoming payments and other clearing procedures automatically. Here the chosen open items are taken into account in the sequence resulting from the days in arrears.
For same number of days in arrears, "credit" item have priority over "debit" items.
Payments on account from former payment transactions are always included.
Items are automatically activated until
If these constellations do not occur, items are actived until the maximum amount below the clearing amount is reached. For the remaining difference, a posting on account is created on the account to be cleared. If several accounts are involved in clearing, the posting on account is carried out on the account that belongs to the last active item.
In the following example, it is assumed that the tolerance is 1.00. For
different payment amounts, is is indicated in each case which items are
cleared, and how high the unearned deduction or the posting on account is.
Clearing amounts
Document Arrears Amount 87.50 120.00 200.00 204.00
-------- ------- ------ ----- ------ ------ ------
1 10 107.00 X X X X
2 8 20.00- X X X X
3 8 30.00 X X X
4 5 66.00 X X
5 3 20,00 X
6 1 10,00
------ ------ ------ ------
Unearned deductions : 0,50 0,00 0,00 1,00
Difference posting to account: 0,00 3,00 17,00 0,00
On the screens where the criteria for selecting the open items are entered, the new field Distribute by age was included. If this field is selected, the items are automatically actived as described above.
On the screens for processing the open items, the apportionment function can also still be called up. This is done by pressing Distribute by age or via the path Edit -> Distribute by age.