Accounts Receivable - Customer Types

Function

The Customer Type maintenance task allows for the creation, modification, deletion, inquiry, and listing of customer type codes used by the Order/Invoice Processing and Sales Analysis modules.

To access this task...

Select Customer Types from the Inquiry and Maintenance menu.

Customer Type Code menu

Customer Type Code

Each customer is assigned a customer type that is entered in Customer maintenance. Customer types are used by the Sales Analysis module to record sales history by customer type and product code.

About the Fields

To enable edits to the form select edit button.

In the Customer Type field...

  • Enter a customer type code of up to three characters in length.

  • Click the record navigating buttons; first record button to view the first record, previous record button to view the previous record, next record button to view the next record, and last record button to view the last record.

  • Click record query button to view or edit existing customer types. See Query Functions.

Customer Type Code inquiry

Customer Type Code Inquiry

See Query Functions.

In the Description field...

  • Displays the description associated with the code entered.

  • Enter up to 20 characters to describe the customer type.

When done making selections...

  • Click save button to save the new code.

  • Click new/clear form button to clear the form and begin again.

Closing an unsaved record will issue the prompt:

Save changes for this record?

  • Select Yes to save the changes.

  • Select No to return to the form.