Third Party Accounting Control Settings

(TPA Control Settings)

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Tabs:  General, Intuit, Generic

Use this file to specify the control settings for your third-party accounting (TPA (Third-Party Accounting) Of or relating to an outside accounting software system such as QuickBooks® and used to interface STORIS data with such a system. The STORIS TPA interface is used as an alternative to STORIS Accounting.) interface. The General tab contains controls not specific to any particular accounting package. The Intuit and Generic tabs contain the controls you need to interface with specific third-party accounting packages.

General

Item Code for Customer RefundsEnter the item code to use when adding a customer return.

Date of Last GL SynchronizationThis is a read-only field that displays the date of the last time your GL Account Synchronization was run. You should run the GL Sync after adding a new account to your TPA (Third-Party Accounting) Of or relating to an outside accounting software system such as QuickBooks® and used to interface STORIS data with such a system. The STORIS TPA interface is used as an alternative to STORIS Accounting. package.

Days Before Purging History LogEnter the number of days you want to expire before the system purges the TPA history log.

Summarize GL PostingsIf you check the box, the system summarizes GL postings before transmission to the TPA. If you leave the box blank, the system transmits GL postings in detailed format.

Summarize By Company, By dateIf you checked the box at the Summarize GL Postings field, use this field to determine the level at which to summarize GL postings. If you choose By Posting Source, By Account, the system combines only those GL batches that have the same posting source. If you choose By Account, the system combines GL batches with different posting sources.

Intuit

If using the Intuit Integrated Financials interface, STORIS comes delivered with default settings for QuickBooks®. We strongly advise you not change these settings, with the following exception:

    Use Account Numbers (QB Only)

This setting should be determined by your company.

Default Vendor TypeEnter the default vendor type that QuickBooks® assigns to vendors transferred from STORIS.

Optimal Number of TransactionsThis value is used for fine-tuning the performance of data transmissions between STORIS and QuickBooks®.

Use Account Numbers (QB Only)To use account numbers rather than account names in QuickBooks®, select this field. Otherwise, leave the field blank.

QuickBooks VersionIndicate the version of QuickBooks® you are using (United States or Canada).

QuickBooks 2010 or AboveIf using QuickBooks, and your release is 2010 or above, check the box at this field.  Otherwise, leave the field blank.  

QuickBooks 2010 or AboveIf using QuickBooks, and your release is 2010 or above, check the box at this field.  Otherwise, leave the field blank.  This field is active only if you set your QuickBooks version to "Canada".  

Multi-Company Refund Item CodeEnter the code you want the system to transmit to QuickBooks® for multi-company refunds. For multi-company refunds, this code supercedes the code entered at the Item Code for Customer Refunds field on the General tab. You associate this code with a GL account in QuickBooks in the same way you set up a receivables account for single-company refunds.

Generic

Allow Multiple Export Files at One TimeTo prevent the system from checking for existing export files, check the box. Otherwise, leave the field blank.

Allow Transmitted AP Bill DeletionTo allow users to delete AP Bills transmitted to the generic interface , check the box. Otherwise, leave the box blank.