Set up contractor accounts with credit and terms

Create trade customers with credit limits, pay terms, price groups and opening balances.

  1. 1

    Create a customer group

    Contacts → Customer groups: e.g. Trade 10%.

  2. 2

    Or a selling-price group

    For set trade prices per item instead of a percentage.

  3. 3

    Add the contractor

    Company name, tax number, phone, address.

  4. 4

    Set credit limit and pay term

    For example limit 5,000 and pay term 30 days.

  5. 5

    Enter the opening balance

    What they owe from your old system.

  6. 6

    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.