The Sage 50 Customers & Sales Navigation Center displays information and access points related to your company's customers.
Some of the data that appears in the Sage 50 Navigation Centers can be drilled down on. These spots are marked by blue text. Just click it to go to a related window displaying detail information.
Customer Maintenance Options
At the top of the section are three buttons that take you to maintenance options:
Customers: Click this to select from a menu of customer-maintenance options:
Jobs: Click this to select from a menu of job-maintenance options:
View and Edit Cost Codes: This takes you to the Cost Codes List, where you can see a variety of information related to job cost codes.
Tell me about using job codes and phases with my jobs.
Tell me about using change orders.
Items and Services: Click this to select from a menu of item and service maintenance options:
Sales Taxes: Click this to select from a menu of sales tax–maintenance options.
Customers—Task Flow
The task flow takes you from a sales quote or proposal, the beginning of a customer transaction, to Bank Deposits, where you bank the revenue from your customer sale. Separate tasks include Customer Statements and Credits and Returns. Click the appropriate button; a pop-up menu appears. For example, if you click the Sales Invoices button, a menu with the following options appears:
The Customers section lists all customers entered through Maintain Customers/Prospects. There are four columns of information for each customer:
You can sort the information in any of the columns.
View Detailed List: Click this button (at the top of the section) to see the Customer List, which includes detailed information for all customers.
Right-click menu: Right-click the Customers section to see a pop-up menu with the following options:
The Recently Used Customer Reports section lists the five most recently opened reports relating to Sage 50 customers. If this is a new company and you are accessing the Customer & Sales Navigation Center before opening any customer reports, the following default reports will be listed:
To see a report on the computer screen, click the View link opposite that report. To print the report, click the Print link opposite the report.
At the bottom of the section, there is View All Customer & Sales Reports link; click this to go to the Sage 50 Select a Report window with the list of Accounts Receivable reports preselected.
The Aged Receivables section shows outstanding customer bills in each the four aging categories set up in Customer Defaults. You can display aged receivables as either a graph or a table.
Graph: Click the Graph link. The percentages of receivables in all aging categories are represented in a pie graph; each category is keyed to a color.
Table: Click the Table link. The table lists total dollar amounts for all outstanding bills in each category. It also lists the percentages of outstanding bills in each category. For example, if aging Category 1 shows 50%, that means 50 percent of all outstanding customer bills fall into this category.
At the bottom of the section, there is link to the Aged Receivables report for your company.
To do this, simply click the drop-down next to the Customer ID field and select the customer. The screen will automatically show you only data for that customer.
Click the Recent Selections link below the customer ID field.
You can search for customers using their
Note: You can search for first name, last name, or first name-space-last name. Do not enter a middle name or initial.
To do so:
Note: The search is not case-sensitive. "LAND" is the same as "land". You can also enter just a part of the information, like the last 4 digits of the phone number and search on that. Sage 50 will find partial matches.
Sage 50 has a Totals section that you can add to the Customer Management tab. To add this section to the Customer Managment tab:
Note: The Date Range displayed for this section may not always match the date range that displays when you click the View Customer Sales History Report. If the Date Range spans a Leap Year day, the beginning day on the Sales History Report may differ by one day.
You can:
These settings will be saved and appear the next time you view this screen. You can close the filter controls by clicking Advanced search.
The Totals section only allows you to change the Date Range.
Simply, click the Make this the default page button in the toolbar.
To do this:
Note: These changes will be saved and will appear the next time you view this screen. They are also saved on a per user basis. That is, each user of Sage 50 will have individual settings.
To change which lists appear:
Click Customize this Page and use the Settings window. Tell me more about this window including step-by-step instructions.
There may be times where you want to have the same list of information, for instance, Sales Invoices, show on your screen at once. To set this window up in this way, click Customize this Page and use the Settings window. Tell me more about this window including step-by-step instructions.
Yes, you can do this by double-clicking the transaction or data that you want to see. Once it opens, you can edit it, and sometimes void or delete it.
Note: You must click Refresh before the changes will show up on the screen.
You cannot drill-down on information in the Totals section.