Transactions - Incomes
Income means all paid business income transactions received via bank transfers, crdit card payments, or cash payments.
There are different methods of adding an income as below:
- Manual Entry: use this feature to record one or multiple income transactions.
- Invoice: if the software offers an invoicing feature, all paid invoices are automatically included in all income transactions calculations
- Business Ledger: this feature allows you to add income and expense transactions at once.
- Bank Statement: offers you the ability to import transactions from bank statements exported as csv or qif files.
- Business Manager: this feature available for tax agents & accountants software packages only, allows to import all business transactions from businesses using the business manager software product.
To prevent duplication, paid invoices should not be manually added as an income transaction!
Adding an Income Manually
Follow the next steps to record the business income transactions:
- Access the Incomes window from the application toolbar
- Click New
- The new income window appears
- Bank Account: select the bank account received the income transactions
- Remember Last Date: check this option if you wish the system to auto fill the date column based on the last entered date
- Remember Income Account: check this option if you wish the system to auto fill the income account column based on the last selected account
- Branch Name: select the branch name, available for multi-branch businesses only
- Transaction Details: enter one or more income transactions
- Date: enter the transaction date
- Description: enter the transaction description (Optional)
- Reference: enter the transaction reference number (Optional)
- Income Account: select the transaction income account category
- Amount: enter the amount inclusive of GST
- GST: auto filled by the system based on the selected income account
- GST Free: enter the GST free amount if applicable
- Tax Code: auto filled based on the selected income account
- Click Save
Branch option is only available for businesses that enabled the multi-branch feature!
a yellow triangle warning is displayed when the transaction date is set to a future date which does not belong to the current financial year
Enter a description and assign the relevant account category, and the system will provide an auto complete function for description, and remembers the same account that you have assigned matching the current description.
To override the automatically calculated GST amount, enter the correct GST amount and the system will adjust the GST free amount applicable to this transaction.
When adding a GST free amount, the system evaluates the current GST amount and adjust it as necessarily. The GST free amount options gives you the benefit of splitting one transactions into GST and GST free without having to add multiple transactions.
Using a Business Ledger
Follow the next steps to use the business ledger feature to record the business income transactions:
- Click Transactions tab
- Access the Business Ledger window from the application toolbar
- The business ledger window appears
- Bank Account: select the bank account received the income transactions
- Branch Name: select the branch name, available for multi-branch businesses only
- Transaction Details: enter one or more income transactions
- Date: enter the transaction date
- Description: enter the transaction description (Optional)
- Account Category: select the transaction account category
- Credit: enter the credit amount inclusive of GST for income transactions
- Debit: enter the debit amount inclusive of GST for expense transactions
- GST: auto filled by the system based on the selected income account
- GST Free: enter the GST free amount if applicable
- Tax Code: auto filled based on the selected income account
- Click Save
Branch option is only available for businesses that enabled the multi-branch feature!
Enter a description and assign the relevant account category, and the system will provide an auto complete function for description, and remembers the same account that you have assigned matching the current description.
To override the automatically calculated GST amount, enter the correct GST amount and the system will adjust the GST free amount applicable to this transaction.
When adding a GST free amount, the system evaluates the current GST amount and adjust it as necessarily. The GST free amount options gives you the benefit of splitting one transactions into GST and GST free without having to add multiple transactions.
Updating an Income Transaction
Follow the next steps to update an income:
- Access the Income window from the application toolbar
- Double click on the required income transaction
- The selected income transaction window appears
- Check and review the current income transaction details
- Click Save
You can also select the required transaction then click the Edit button.
Income Transactions Quick Editor
This feature allows you to edit multiple income transactions at once, follow the next steps to use the Quick Editor feature:
- Access the Income window from the application toolbar
- Click Quick Editor
- The quick editor window appears
- Search By: select one of the available search by options
- All Incomes: view all transactions within the selected date range
- Income Account: select an income account and view all selected account's transactions within the selected date range
- Advanced Search: select the required field type and enter the appropriate keyword then click Find
- Branch Name: select the branch name, available for multi-branch businesses only
- Transaction Details: review and adjust the required transactions as per needed
- Quick Replace: replace an existing transactions account with new account for one or more transactions
- Account: click the icon
and select the current account
- Replace With: click the icon
and select the new account
- Click Replace
- A replace warning message appears, click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the replace process
- Click Save
Branch option is only available for businesses that enabled the multi-branch feature!
Deleting an Income
Place a check mark next to each transaction that you wish to delete then click Delete, confirm the delete request
Finalised or closed income transactions can not be deleted, you must reset the required transactions before attempting to delete. Only an administrator have the access permission to reset closed or finalised transactions.
Resetting or Finalising an Income Transaction
Follow the next steps to reset or finalise transactions:
- Access the Income window from the application toolbar
- Click Trans. Status
- The transaction status window appears
- Reset Transactions: use this option when resetting closed transaction
- Finalise Transactions: use this option when reconciling transactions
- Date: select transactions date range
- Branch Name: select the branch name, available for multi-branch businesses only
- Click Find
- Click Check All to select all available transactions, or select the transaction that you wish to reset or finalise
- Click Reset or Finalise depends on the function that you are performing
Branch option is only available for businesses that enabled the multi-branch feature!
Transactions belonging to a closed financial year can not be reset or finalised.