Patronage Worksheet

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The "Patronage Worksheet" window is used to view and create patronage allocations for a specified period of time. Patronage points can be allocated based on a customers purchases, purchases from a vendor and decreases in the customers receivable account balances.

Description

The description for your patronage worksheet.

From Date

The starting date for the patronage points calculation.

To Date

The ending date for the patronage points calculation.

Equity Amount

Enter the amount of patronage that will be allocated as equity.

Equity Account

Enter the ledger account that will be credited when the equity is allocated to the patronage groups.

Equity Memo

Enter the memo that will appear on all card adjustments created by Quasar when equity is allocated to the patronage groups.

Credit Amount

Enter the amount of patronage that will be allocated as credit.

Credit Account

Enter the ledger account that will be credited when the credit is allocated to the patronage groups.

Credit Memo

Enter the memo that will appear on all card adjustments created by Quasar when credit is allocated to the patronage groups.

Totals


The totals folder displays the total points calculated for each patronage group. Points are calculated by clicking on the "Reload" button.

Sales


The sales folder displays the total points calculated for each patronage group for sales to customers who belong to the patronage group. You can turn the customer detail and/or the department details on by clicking on the appropriate flag.

Purchases


The purchases folder displays the total points calculated for each patronage group for purchases from vendors who belong to the patronage group. You can turn the vendor detail on by clicking on the vendor detail flag. The number of points assigned to each dollar of purchases can be set by enter the multiplication factor in the "Purchase Points" attribute. For example entering "1" will assign 1 point for each dollar of purchases.

Balance Change




The balance change folder displays the total points calculated for each patronage group for reduction/increase of accounts receivable balance. You can turn the customer detail on by clicking on the customer detail flag.

Taxes




The tax folder is used exclusively for allocating patronage on tax refunds. Up to four taxes can be listed to be included in the tax calculation.

The tax folder contains the following columns:

Adjustments




The adjustment folder is used to make manual adjustments to patronage points.


A new adjustment can be added by clicking on "New". An adjustment can be edited by highlighting a patronage group and clicking on "Edit" and you can remove a manual adjustment by highlighting the patronage group and clicking on "Remove".

Reload

Click on the reload button to recalculate the allocations based on the entered parameters.

Post

Click on the post button to post the equity and credits to the appropriate equity and credit customer accounts. A customer adjustment will be created for each equity allocation and each credit allocation.

Inactive?

Toggle on or off. Toggle on if the patronage worksheet is no longer active. Toggle on to make the patronage worksheet active again.

Action Icons



- Select the "Save" icon to save the changes to the patronage worksheet record.

- Select the "Undo" icon to remove any unsaved changes and display the original patronage worksheet record.

- Select the "New" icon to create a new patronage worksheet. If the open patronage worksheet record has not yet been saved, you will be prompted to save it.

- Select the "Delete" icon to delete the patronage worksheet record.

- Select the "Copy" icon to copy the contents of the patronage worksheet record to an alternate patronage worksheet record.

- Select the "Groups" icon to define the groups that the patronage worksheet will be linked to.

- Select the "OK" icon to file the record.

- Select the "Cancel" icon to cancel the changes to the record.