Set up contractor accounts with credit and terms
Create trade customers with credit limits, pay terms, price groups and opening balances.
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Create a customer group
Contacts → Customer groups: e.g. Trade 10%.
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Or a selling-price group
For set trade prices per item instead of a percentage.
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Add the contractor
Company name, tax number, phone, address.
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Set credit limit and pay term
For example limit 5,000 and pay term 30 days.
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Enter the opening balance
What they owe from your old system.
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Sell on account
Choose the customer at the till and finalise the sale as due.
Statements
Open the customer and use the ledger to print or save a statement for any date range. Read the guide on contractor charge accounts.
Common questions
- What happens over the limit?
- The till warns before the sale is finalised.
- Can a customer be in a group and a price group?
- Use one pricing method per customer to keep prices predictable.