Supplier defaults

Supplier defaults are a range of values and settings that are held centrally so that your records and transactions can be updated quickly with pre-defined information. By taking the time to set up your defaults, you can avoid a lot of duplicated effort entering repeated information as you create new records.

Record

Defaults

Country	Choose the default country for any new supplier records. If required, you can still change the country in each individual record.
Currency	The default currency to use for new suppliers. Note: If the Regional Settings in the Microsoft^® Control Panel for your PC are set to English (Ireland), the default currency settings is euro. Tip: This option is only available if the Foreign Trader module has been activated.
Std. Tax Code	Choose the default tax code for any new supplier records. You can still override this default when you enter individual transactions.
Def. N/C	The default nominal code to be applied to your supplier records.
Fund	If you have set up the Charity/Non-Profit options in Settings > Company Preferences > Parameters, and created a Fund record, you can choose the Fund No/Name from drop-down list provided.
Department	Sage Instant Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts only The default department for new suppliers. The departments in this list are set up in the Departments window > Company > Links pane > Department.

Account status

Default

Sage Instant Accounts plus and Sage 50 Accounts only

Choose the default account status for new supplier records.

You can change this for each individual supplier.

Terms Agreed

If you want the software to accept that terms have been agreed with all suppliers by default, select this check box.

Ageing

Seeing a supplier's outstanding balances, grouped by the age of debt is a useful way of keeping track of where your payments need to go. Find out more

Calendar Monthly Ageing	Select this to look at debts outstanding in a calendar month rather than by a certain number of days.
Period Ageing	Select this to specify ageing periods of a fixed number of days.
Start Period Ageing on first day of month after Transaction date	This only applies to Period Ageing and means the age is calculated from the first day of the month following the month in which the transaction occurs.
Include future totals in balance	Select thisto includetransactions dated after the ageing report date in the totals.