Autolock Box Concepts in r12
Autolock Box Concepts in r12
Autolock Box Concepts in r12
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AutoLockbox Is A Service That Commercial Banks Offer Corporate Customers To Enable Them To Outsource Their Accounts
Receivable Payment Processing. It eliminates Manual Data Entry By Automatically Processing Receipts That Are Sent
Directly To Your Bank. You Can Also Use AutoLockbox for Historical Data Conversion.
For Example, You Can Use AutoLockbox To Transfer Receipts From Your Previous Accounting System Into Receivables.
AutoLockbox Ensures That The Receipts Are Accurate And Valid Before Transferring Them Into Receivables.
These steps can be submitted individually or at the same time from the submit Lockbox Processing window.
After you run Post QuickCash, Receivables treats the receipts like any other receipts, you can reverse and reapply them
and apply any unapplied, unidentified, or on-account amounts.
Deposit Date: Receivables uses the date that your bank deposits your receipts.
Import Date: Receivables uses the date on which you import your receipts.
If you are using this lockbox to transfer foreign currency receipts and you did not specify exchange rate type in
the bank file, enter an Exchange Rate Type.
Enter the Receipt Method to assign to this lockbox. The default is the receipt method associated with the receipt
batch source you entered.
If you want AutoLockbox to be able to transfer receipts without billing locations into Receivables, uncheck the
Require Billing Location check box. If this box is checked, AutoLockbox will only validate the receipt if the billing
location is provided.
Choose whether to Match on Corresponding Date for transactions in this Lockbox transmission.
1. Always: Always verify that the date for the transaction or other matched item is the same as the date specified in
this transmission.
2. Duplicates Only: Only verify that the matching date and the specified date are the same if duplicate matching
number were found and Lockbox needs to determine which is correct.
3. Never: Ignore the specified date. This is the default value.
Transactions Tab
Responsibility: Receivables Manager
Navigation: Setup > Receipts > Lockboxes > Lockboxes > Transactions Tab
If you do not want the Lockbox Validation program to use the debit item number to determine a customer, open
the Transactions tabbed region, uncheck the AutoAssociate box. By default, the Lockbox Validation program uses an
invoice or debit memo number to determine the customer with which the receipt should be associated (if there is no
customer information or MICR number in your Lockbox transmission).
Auto Associate: Check the AutoAssociate check box.
Note: Ensure that all invoices to which any single receipt will be applied belong to the same customer. And also ensure
that the matching numbers within the transmission are unique
If using Oracle Trade Management, then select the Evaluate for Claim Eligibility check box if you want Lockbox to
automatically create claims for eligible remittance
lines.
A remittance line’s eligibility for claim creation depends on your system options setup.
If you select this box but the remittance line is not eligible for claim creation, then Lockbox handles receipts according
to the selection that you make in the next step.
Choose how Lockbox will handle Invalid Transaction Number: If the receipt record is associated with multiple
invoices, but one of the invoices is invalid. Depending on how you set this option, Lockbox will:
1. Post Partial Amount as Unapplied: Apply the receipt to the valid transactions, then import the remaining
receipt amount with a status of Unapplied.
2. Reject Entire Receipt: Do not import the receipt (it will remain in theAR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE table).
You need to edit the invalid record(s) in the Lockbox Transmission Data window, then resubmit the Validation
step for the receipt before Lockbox can import it into Receivables interim tables.
1. If this rule set will include the Apply to the Oldest Invoice First rule, choose how you want to apply
any Remaining Remittance Amount. Receivables uses this value to determine how to enter the remaining amount of
the receipt if none of the AutoCash Rules within this rule set apply.
Choose ‘Unapplied’ to mark remaining receipt amounts as Unapplied.
it encounters a partial receipt application and Allow Partial Receipts is set to No for this
AutoCash Rule Set.
the next oldest debit item includes late charges and Finance Charges is set to No for this
AutoCash Rule Set
This rule marks any remaining receipt amount ‘Unapplied’ or places it on-account, depending on the value
you entered in the Remaining Remittance Amount field for
this AutoCash Rule set .
Clear the Account: Post QuickCash uses this rule only if your customer’s account balance exactly
matches the amount of the receipt. If the receipt amount does not
exactly match this customer’s account balance, Post QuickCash uses the next rule in the set. This rule
calculates your customer’s account balance by using the values
you specified for this AutoCash Rule Set’s open balance calculation and the number of Discount Grace Days in
this customer’s profile class. This rule also includes all of this customer’s debit and credit items when
calculating their account balance. This rule ignores the value of the Apply Partial Receipts option.
This AutoCash Rule uses the following equation to calculate the open balance for each debit item:Open
Balance = Original Balance + Late Charges – Discount
Receivables then adds the balance for each debit item to determine the customer’s total account balance. The
‘Clear the Account’ rule uses this equation for each invoice, chargeback, debit memo, credit memo, and
application of an Unapplied or On-Account receipt to a debit item.
Note: The discount amount for each item depends upon the payment terms of the item and the value of the
Discounts field for this AutoCash Rule Set. The number of Discount Grace Days in this customer’s credit
profile, along with the payment terms assigned to their outstanding invoices, determine the actual due dates
of each debit item.
Clear Past Due Invoices: This rule is similar to the Clear the Account rule because it applies the
receipt to your customer’s debit and credit items only if the total of these items exactly matches the amount
of this receipt. However, this rule only applies the receipt to items that are currently past due.
A debit item is considered past due if its due date is earlier than the receipt deposit date. This rule considers
credit items (i.e. any pre-existing, unapplied receipt or credit memo) to be past due if the deposit date of the
receipt is either the same as or later than the deposit date of this pre-existing receipt or credit memo. In this
case, this rule uses a pre-existing receipt or credit memo before the current receipt for your AutoCash receipt
applications.
If this AutoCash Rule Set’s open balance calculation does not include late charges or disputed items, and this
customer has past due items that are in dispute or items with balances that include late charges, this rule will
not close these items. This rule ignores the value of the Apply Partial Receipts option.
Clear Past Due Invoices Grouped by Payment Term: This rule is similar to the Clear Past Due
Invoices rule, but it first groups past due invoices by their payment term, and then uses the oldest
transaction due date within the group as the group due date. When using this rule, Receivables can only
apply the receipt if the receipt amount exactly matches the sum of your customer’s credit memos and past
due invoices.
A debit item is considered past due if the invoice due date is earlier than the deposit date of the receipt you
are applying. For credit memos, Receivables uses the credit memo date to determine whether to include
these amounts in the customer’s account balance.
Credit memos do not have payment terms, so they are included in each group.
Match Payment with Invoice: This rule applies the receipt to a single invoice, debit memo, or
chargeback that has a remaining amount due exactly equal to the receipt
amount. This rule uses the values that you enter for this AutoCash Rule Set’s open balance calculation to
determine the remaining amount due of this customer’s debit items. For example, if Finance Charges is No for
this rule set and the amount of this receipt is equal to the amount due for a debit item minus its late charges,
this rule applies the receipt to that debit item.
If this rule cannot find a debit item that matches the receipt amount, Post QuickCash looks at the next rule in
the set. This rule ignores the value of the Apply Partial Receipts option.
Sample Control File
LOAD DATA
APPEND
Running Lockbox
Responsibility: Receivables Manager
Navigation: Interfaces > Lockbox
Import
If you are importing a new bank file, check the New Transmission check box, then enter a new Transmission
Name.
If you are resubmitting an existing lockbox transmission, you can select a name from the list of values.
Enter the name of the datafile along with path and extension.
Enter the name of the control file with out extension. Make sure that the control file is in $AR_TOP/bin directory.
Select the transmission Format from list of values.
In the Alternate Name Search field, select Manual or Automatic if you are importing a bank file with a Japanese
Zengin character set. Otherwise, select None.
The default value is None.
Validation
Check the Submit Validation Check box.
Enter the Lockbox Number to validate. If this is not a new transmission, the default lockbox number is the
number used for the original step of this transmission. If you specified Lockbox Number as a value to be imported from
the bank file when you defined your transmission format, or if the transmission format shows that a number already
exists, Receivables skips this field.
You must enter a lockbox number if Submit Validation is Yes and the lockbox number is not specified in your bank file.
To apply receipts to transactions belonging to unrelated customers, check the Allow Payment of Unrelated
Invoices check box.
If you defined your GL Date as Constant Date in the Lockboxes window, you must enter a GL Date; if you
specified a GL Date of Deposit Date or Import Date, Receivables uses this as the GL date.
Enter a Report Format. Enter All to include all records processed in this transmission.
Enter Rejects Only to include only records that failed validation.
To transfer only the lockbox batches in which all records pass the validation step to the QuickCash tables, check
the Complete Batches Only check box.
If you do not check this check box, Receivables will transfer any receipts within a batch that pass validation, even if
others are rejected.
If the Post Partial Amount as Unapplied box is checked, Lockbox will import a receipt that is listed to be applied to
several invoices, even if one or more of the invoices are invalid and Lockbox could not apply to them. In this case,
Lockbox transfers the receipt into QuickCash with an unapplied amount, and you can then manually apply payment to
a valid invoice(s) using the Applications window.
Note: When AutoLockbox imports a receipt with an unapplied amount into QuickCash, Receivables retains the invalid
matching numbers in the Application Notes field in the Receipt History window. You can also display the Application
Notes field in the Receipts Summary or QuickCash windows by choosing Show Field from the Folder menu.
If the Reject Entire Receipt box is checked and AutoLockbox encounters an invalid transaction number, the receipt that
Lockbox cannot fully apply will remain in the
AR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE_ALL table. In this case, you need to edit the invalid record(s) in the Lockbox Transmission
Data window, then submit the Validation step again for the receipt.
Save your work. Receivables displays the Request ID of your concurrent process and generates the Lockbox Execution
report.
Use the Lockbox Transmission Data window to delete and edit transmission data imported into Receivables from your bank
using Lockbox.
You can correct your lockbox data in this window for receipts that fail validation, then resubmit the validation step to
import these receipts.
Use the Lockbox Execution report to help you determine which transmission records you need to correct to ensure that
your validation processes succeed.
If you are updating information, be sure to update only those fields that have data corresponding to the transmission
format used to submit the import process.
Note: The Lockbox Transmission Data window is a Folder window.
You can customize the appearance of this window by selecting options from the Folder menu. For example, you may
choose to add the Alternate Name and Customer Name fields to your default folder.
1. Enter or query the lockbox transmission. Within each transmission, Receivables displays the lockbox and batch
records first, followed by the receipts and overflow records. The lockbox import program assigns a date to
transmission records that you import into Receivables and displays transmissions by date when you query them in
this window.
2. To review error messages, place the cursor in the Status field, then choose Edit Field from the Edit menu. This
field is set by the validation process.
3. Enter Comments about this transmission (optional). Receivables transfers comments for batch header records to
the Receipt Batch after you run Post QuickCash. Receivables transfers batch header comments if the batch header
does not include comments. You can review and update comments about a batch in the Receipt Batches window.
4. If the error is contained in the control, receipt, or application information, you can make changes to the invalid
records by selecting the record, then choosing one of the following:
Receipt: Choose this button to review and edit specific receipt information. You can change the values
of fields that are included in your transmission format.
Receipt Attributes: Choose this button to review and maintain receipt descriptive flexfield information
imported with your lockbox transmission.
You can change the values of fields that are included in your transmission format.
Applications: Choose this button to review and maintain application information for each receipt within
this transmission. You can apply a receipt to debit or credit items. When applying to credit items, Receivables
increases the amount of the receipt that can be applied to debit items by the amount of the credit. You can
apply up to eight transactions to each receipt record. To apply more than eight transactions, use overflow
records for your receipt. Each overflow record can be used to apply an additional eight transactions to the
receipt. Use the Status field to review errors for specific receipt applications.
Select the Cross Currency Data region to review information about cross
currency receipts
Control: Choose this button to review the lockbox transmission control information that corresponds to
this transmission record. You can change the values for fields that are included in your transmission format.
Important: Lockbox formats receipt amounts during the validation step. Therefore, values in the Lockbox
Control window do not contain decimals.
5. Save your work and Resubmit the transmission for validation.