Background Matching Fields

This topic describes the fields on the Background Matching page.

Note:
If you have enabled the Matching from Cash Entry feature in Feature Console, the default values for these fields can be changed in the Default Information section on the Accounting Company object. For more information, see Company Fields
Field Description
Account Name The account whose transactions you want to match. Leave this field blank to match transactions for all accounts.
Match Up To Choose whether to match up to a specific date or period. Pick the date or period as appropriate. Any cash entries and invoices or billing documents with a document date later than this date or period will not be matched.
Currency Mode Choose whether matching should be in the currency of the account, or the currency of the posted document.
Matching Currency Choose whether you are interested in one particular currency, or all currencies.
First Match By Choose whether a cash entry should be matched to a invoice, credit note or billing document if they have the same Customer Reference or Invoice Number. Click Add Matching Condition if you want to add a condition to allow any available outstanding cash to be automatically matched to other invoices for the same account.
Then Match By This field becomes available when you click Add Matching Condition. Choose how any available outstanding cash should be automatically matched to other invoices or billing documents for the same account:
  • Outstanding Value - Highest First or Lowest First. Cash will be matched to invoices based on their outstanding value. For example when matching on Highest First, an invoice with an outstanding value of 300.00 will be matched before an invoice with an outstanding value of 150.00.
  • Date - Oldest First or Newest First. Cash will be matched to invoices based on their invoice date. For example when matching on Oldest First, an invoice with a date of May 30 2015 will be matched before an invoice with a date of June 1 2015.
  • Document Number - Oldest First or Newest First. Cash will be matched to invoices based on their document number. For example when matching on Newest First, an invoice with the number SIN000100 will be matched before an invoice with the number SIN000067.
Allow Partial Payment Select this checkbox if you are happy to allow an invoice or billing document to be part paid if the cash entry's value isn't enough to fully match the invoice. If this checkbox is not selected, the remaining available cash value is held on account.
Matching Date The date on which matching is performed. This will be used as the document date on any journals created by the background matching process, such as discount journals. The matching date cannot be earlier than the document date.

Buttons

Button Description
Next Starts the background matching process.