Customer accounts – Rice Lake TransAct 3.5 User Manual

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Customer Accounts

Admin

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Version 3.5

Customer Accounts

Use

Customer Accounts

to create and edit customer accounts. All TransAct transactions are attached

to a customer account.

NOTE:

Hauler

and

Bill-To

accounts are setup in the

Customer Account Table

. During the weighing

process, hauler accounts and bill-to accounts are selected from this list. The

Hauler

category (

Admin | Categories | Hauler

) setup when a sample database was installed was

designed to help categorize different types of haulers for reporting purposes.

To create or edit customer accounts, select

Admin | Customer Accounts

from the main menu. The

Customer Account Table

window and

Customer General Info

form appears.

The first customer account in the table is listed. If there are no customers, the

Customer General Info

form will show a customer number of zero (0) and blank

Name

field. Begin entering customer accounts

at this point.

Figure 18. Customer General Info

To create a new customer account, click the

New

button. A blank

Customer General Info

form appears.

Customer Number, Name, and Address

Every customer account must have a

Customer Number

and

Name

. The

Customer Number

cannot be

larger than ten alpha-numeric characters. The

Name

cannot be longer than 40 alpha-numeric characters.

Contact Name, Address, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, and Fax

information may be entered for the

customer, but is not required. This information can be printed on tickets and will be printed on
statement/invoices and certain reports.

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