Unless you specify otherwise, where an organization has both a head office and branches, the payment program pays via the head office: This means that the information required by the payment program is taken from the master record of the head office. Postings are always made to the head office account.

It is also possible to pay locally, with the payment program making payments for each branch separately.

There are two ways that you can define the payment methods:

• If you want to arrange separate payment methods for each branch, you should enter these in the branch master records only.

• If all the branches of an organization use the same payment methods, enter these in the head office master record only.

If payment methods are defined in both the branch and head office master records, the branches can use any of these methods.