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Multiview Accounts Receivable

The accounts receivable department plays a critical role in every organization by making credit available, managing collections, and applying incoming cash against invoices. This department needs access to up-to-date information to monitor collection activity and make accurate cash forecasts.

Multiview Accounts Receivable helps you effectively manage your organization's receivable assets and credit exposure.

  • Dramatically improve departmental efficiency with high-speed data entry and cash-application techniques
  • Reduce errors by validating all entries interactively
  • Tailor accounts receivable and credit processing to your unique requirements
  • Design statements with complete control of formats and content
  • Easily transfer invoice and customer data from existing order-entry and billing systems
  • Interactively transfer accounts receivable distribution information to Multiview General Ledger

Multiview Accounts Receivable makes it possible to accomplish all these activities quickly and easily in the accounting department, with no need for assistance from IS personnel.


Fast Receivables Processing & Sound Accounting Controls

"One-step" cash receipt and application saves time and reduces errors. Gateways to existing order-entry and billing systems simplify the transfer of invoices, credit notes, debit adjustment, and credit data to Multiview Accounts Receivable.

  • Apply payments fully or partially
  • Use any available on-line discounts when applying cash to an invoice
  • Import customer information from other systems
  • Quickly and accurately identify customers by name, number, short code, or zip code
  • Maintain on-line comments relating to customers and/or invoices


Flexibility, Security, & Control

All transactions, both those entered manually and those imported from other systems, are edited and validated before being accepted. On-line policy tables speed processing, enhance control, and make it simple to tailor the system to your unique operating requirements. Multiview Accounts Receivable provides:

  • Automatic or manual assignment of customer and transaction numbers
  • User-defined aging categories and numerous sort options for inquiries and reports
  • Optional interest calculations on past-due items


Staying Ahead of the Game

Multiview Accounts Receivable prevents credit problems by enabling you to preplan credit reviews for some or all of your customers. Selection criteria may include:

  • Accounts over credit limit
  • Customer type
  • Statement cycle
  • Credit-manager assignment
  • Next review date


Unprecedented Information Access & Reporting Power

Multiview Accounts Receivable gives you easy access to the information you need to make sound credit decisions and accurate cash forecasts. The application provides:

  • Standard reports, including credit management, open-item aging (detail and summary), invoice, cash application, and table listings
  • Selection of standard reports by company, credit manager, time period, and a variety of other criteria
  • Inquiry into a wide range of customer-activity, application, and credit information


Comprehensive Receivables Management

Multiview Accounts Receivable is a comprehensive system for managing receivables. System features include:

  • Support of both balance-forward and open-item processing and statement production
  • Many standard receivables transactions, including invoices, debit/credit adjustments, cash receipt and application, in addition to write-offs
  • Multiple bank processing
  • Immediate on-line update of customer balance and posting to Multiview General Ledger
  • User-defined payment terms specified by customer and/or invoice
  • Automatic calculation of due date, discount date, and discount amount based on terms
  • Automatic tracking of discounts, freight, and tax amounts
  • Special user-defined fields to capture industry-specific information
  • On-line inquiry of customer data such as current aging, Dun & Bradstreet rating, standard terms, and grace days
  • User-defined interest calculations
  • A variety of select and sort options on all reports
  • Unlimited custom-designed statement formats