Remittances are the only key document that cannot be emailed. Remittance production must be separated from check printing. Most countries no longer use checks. In Accpac the only way to produce a remittance is to pretend it is a check payment.
If separated then remittance can be printed/emailed as needed. Plus they could be re-printed using the same methodology as AR statements
by: Steve B. | over a year ago | Financial Management
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I see no need to separate remittances. The payment must be entered whether or not it is a check, and the Payment Entry screen is still appropriate for that. However, adding the ability to print non-check payments (to any print destination) would be a good addition.
Orchid EFT
If you use PrintBoss Enterprise to print your checks to blank check stock, it can automatically email and/or print your remittances to an alternate printer.
Firstly there should not be a need to revert to third party simply to email remittances.
Secondly there should be separation of printing cheques from remittance advice production. As it is now you can only print remittances for payment types that are cheques. The application treats them as one and the same. Of course the payment entry is fine, but the remittance productuion is not.
Modify the check form to test for check payment, then VOID the checks that are not real payments.
I would like to email my remittance advices to my creditors.
Orchid EFT - we have been using for approx. 6 months and it works great for electronic payment methods, however, I do agree that there SHOULD not be a need to revert to a third party with software as large and complex as ACCPAC.
Modulo have great products too - agreed it should be in the Accpac product though.
I have a client who bought the EFT Payables module and was so pissed off when they found out that it is not possible to e-mail the remittance advice without buying a third party module. They feel that such functionality should have been part of either the EFT Payables or the Accounts Payable module. I agree.
Sage is still wedded to the 'check' idea - it is a North American thang, methinks. Still, I suspect they will be dragged kicking into the electronic payment era. Bit sad though when $500 packages can manage this area superbly - clients are quick to mention that!
I am dumbstruck as to why an ERP software program cannot send electronic remittance in 2019 ??? Hopefully this will be rectified so the frustrated A/P users can cut back work time sending them manually.
Yes, with Orchid EFT you can re-print/email the advices as many times as needed, most are emailed I'd say. But, if your payment is a cheque or wire and only the advice portion is needed for the vendor it would be nice to simply be able to 're-print' an already printed cheque as an advise only.
11 November 2021
Clients are expecting this to be part of Standard Sage 300 and do not want to spend money on third party software. As in they will pay extra for Sage 300 with this function included but they will not pay extra for third party software to do the work