When you set up customer and supplier accounts, you can specify multiple contact details for each account. You can also specify a role for each contact. If required, these roles can then be used to determine which contact is used when sending documents and letters to customers and suppliers.
Contact roles must be defined in Accounting System Manager before you create or edit the customer and supplier records.
Three mandatory roles are supplied with Sage 200: Account, SendRemittanceTo and a SendStatementTo role. Each customer account must have a contact with the Account and Send Statement To role assigned. Each supplier account must a contact with the Account and SendRemittanceTo role assigned.
If you have chosen create additional roles and you want to send documents to the contacts associated with these roles, each account must have a least one contact assigned to this role . You must also chosen which documents you want to associate with each role in the Customer and Supplier Documents window.
When you create new customer or supplier accounts, a default contact with these roles is automatically created.
Open: Accounting System Manager > Settings > Customer and Supplier Roles.
Enter the name of the role. You can use up to 50 characters.
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Sales |
Select this to use this role with your customer contacts. |
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Purchase |
Select this to use this role with your supplier contacts. |
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Use with Documents |
Select this if you want to send documents such as invoices or statements to the contact associated with role. If you choose this , you must have a preferred contact for the role on each customer or supplier account. Once selected, the role is automatically added to the default contact listed on all customer or supplier accounts. You choose the documents your want to send to each role in the Customer and Supplier Documents window.
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Open: Accounting System Manager > Settings > Customer and Supplier Roles.
Select the role, and click Delete.
You cannot delete the roles if:
Steps in this task
Customer and supplier document types
Other tasks
Sending reports and documents via email
Manage invoice and credit note layouts
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