Setting Up POS and A/R Automatic Passoff

With Point-of-Sale (POS) and Accounts Receivable (A/R) passoff, transactions you enter in any of the following applications are passed off to the General Ledger:

Your end-of-day Daily Journal Report (RDJ) option F passes off POS and A/R to the General Ledger.

Setting Up POS and A/R Passoff

Before you begin this procedure, you must first add all POS and A/R general ledger accounts in the Chart of Accounts window.

  1. In Function MCT (accessible from the Network Access Main Menu), make sure the "Automated Pass-off To General Ledger?" flag is set to Y.  If it is set to N, type a Y in that field and press <Change>.

  2. Display the Set Up G/L Passoff window.

  3. Click the arrow to the right of the Type box, and select Store (POS and A/R by Store) from the drop-down list.

  4. Click Display. The POS and A/R account types display in the grid.

  5. Click in the Account column of the first account type in the grid (COGS).

  6. Enter your general ledger account number for this account type.

  7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each subsequent account type in the grid. Depending on your system setup, you may not need to assign an account to every account type in the grid.

    For more information about each account type, including whether or not you must assign an account number to it, click here.

  8. Click Change.

  9. Multistore: Click the arrow to the right of the Store box, select the next store you want to set up, and repeat steps 3 through 8.

  10. If you want to pass off sales and purchases information by department, click here for the setup procedure.