• What is the best way to handle a receipt that was already paid months prior to the bank, but not receipted in sage?

    Hi there, I just started working with a new company, and noticed an outstanding receivable from a customer that was actually paid to the bank, but was not receipted in sage. So is still showing outstanding a few months later. What is the best way to…
  • Duplicate Reversing Entry - How to fix

    I reversed a receipt and it generated two reversing entries instead of just one. I'm not sure how it happened but now we can't balance the bank because of this. I tried making a journal entry but we can't use the AR account in General journal. Is there…
  • Receipt window will not process

    I am running Sage 50 Premium Canadian edition The prior bookkeepers have a ton of 'inactive' customers that had payments and invoices netting out to 0 but unable to clear. When you select them to process an error pops up "the program could not process…
  • Income Statement Not Showing Income

    I have upgraded our system to the new Sage and now the our income statement shows no income. We are a not-for-profit association and have 10 revenue accounts that we use for invoicing our customers, but when I create a receipt for that invoice, it does…
  • Cash Clearing Accounts

    Probably a bit of a silly question, when in the receivable module>Receipt and the client pays via Interact I have to option to deposit into a few different places, it should go to Cash to be deposited or Sales Clearing Account or should I just make Account…
  • Receipts Window / Journal not opening / Cannot process payments

    We recently upgraded to the latest version of Sage 50 Canada and I am having a problem entering payments from customers. Previously, when a customer agreed to a large purchase, it was created in the Sales Window. To process the deposit or subsequent…
  • PST help

    TO start im very new to book keeping Im using auto entry with my sage 50 so i can scan my receipts in. for some reason my tax code only seperates the GST and not the PST. when i go on the chat for support they say its in sage that i need to eddit. i…
  • Recording Purchase Receipts In Sage 50

    Hello, I am working with a client that uses the business card for a lot of small purchases and provides the receipt as an expense. Meals, Transporation, Small tools/hardware. I did not want to enter these as a "payable" individually and began compiling…
  • How best to handle an overpayment from a regular customer?

    Another issue from an accounting newbie (myself): I sent the customer an incorrect invoice, so I replaced it with a correct one that was for less. However, now he has gone and paid the incorrect invoice. So he has overpaid. And I deposited the cheque…
  • How do I set up Sage to take prepaid deposits from my customers?

    I'm having difficulty locating the setting that allows me to take customer deposits. I have it set up at work but can't remember how to set it up for my home computer. When I go to create receipts the deposit amount does not show up, only the total box…
  • What is Pre-Autorized Debit (PAD)

    HI, in my receipt window, i can pay CASH, Cheques, PAD or by Credit Card. What is PAD? Is it like EFT? I dont always get cheques from clients and when I get an EFT in the paid by Cheque window I enter their cheque number as follow : Trace NO 123555 etc…
  • Creating Cash and Cheques to be deposited Account

    Hi all, I would like some help to create an account where I can deposit my cheques and cash until i go to the bank. I want to be able to create a receipt once i get the cheque or cash but since its not in the bank yet, i dont want it to go in my bank…
  • USD Amazon Book Sales & CDN Bank Account

    I am using Simply Accounting Sage Premium 2009. When posting the cash payments through Receipts is there any way to book the exchange gain or loss within the receipt? I would like to have the receipt match the direct deposit. (US sales with CDN dollar…
  • Credit Note

    I was having trouble receiving payment for an invoice (It kept saying I had changed the invoice and needed to input the payment manually - not sure what they meant) - so I deleted the invoice and the program automatically created a credit note. Now that…