Design#
The Account Payment Module introduces the following concepts:
Payment#
A Payment represents an order to pay an amount to a Party or receive an amount from a party. It may be linked to an Move Line to deduce its Amount to Pay.
Once processed, a payment can not be changed except to be succeeded or failed.
When the Account Statement Module is activated, the payment lines linked to a statement line are marked as succeeded when the statement is validated.
See also
The receivable payments can be found by opening the main menu item:
The payable payments can be found by opening the main menu item:
Wizards#
Process Payment#
The Process Payment wizard groups the payments of same kind and process them following the method defined on the journal.
Payment Journal#
A Payment Journal groups Payments. It defines the Currency and the processing method.
Payment Group#
A Payment Group contains Payments processed together at the same time. The payment group is used to follow the processing of the payments.
Account Move Line#
When the Account Payment Module is activated, the account move lines gain some extra properties. These include the amount to pay for a receivable or payable line and the blocked and direct debit checkboxes.
See also
The Account Move Line concept is introduced by the Account Module.
Wizards#
Create Direct Debit#
The Credit Direct Debit wizard creates receivable payments for due lines for a date based on the direct debits property of the Party.
Pay Line#
The Pay Line wizard creates payments for each line and using the amount to pay.
Party#
When the Account Payment Module is activated, the parties gain some extra accounting properties. These include a checkbox to prevent to pay supplier which does direct debit and a list of direct debit options to collect payments from customer.
See also
The Party concept is introduced by the Party Module.