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Re: Bank deposit report
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Time: 9:59:00 am
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29
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Lin Nah wrote:
> I am looking into increasing the efficiency in the way we process
> payments using optigold. The new way involves using the optigold
> Bank Deposit Report for bank deposits.
>
> Currently we have a "waste" in that each cheque payment is entered
> twice. Once into Optigold and another time into a spreadsheet. I wish
> to eliminate the spreadsheet step. In order to do this, I need to get
> the Bank deposit report to the form that satifies the bank's minimum
> requirements as well as our accounting/tracking needs.
>
> I have printed the Bank depost report for type = Cheque (or check)
> and it appears that regardless of whether I print it portrait or
> landscape the cheque number prints over the amount. Only the last
> digit of the amount isn't printed over.
>
> I know someone asked this last year but looking at the replies to the
> mailing list, it wasn't resolved.
>
> Our cheque number is in the format of xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xx
> The first lot is the cheque sequence number for that customer, the
> second lot is the bank and branch number, the 3rd lot is the account
> number and the last lot is the suffix.
>
> Question 1:
> So is there any way I can increase the width of the report so it does
> print on landscape and gives sufficient spaceto include the entire
> cheque number?
>
> Question 2:
> Is there any way we can choose the payment type as we go in to
> bank deposit report rather than set it as report 1 and 2 and change it
> if we need more than two types?
>
> Currently I'll need a report for cheque and cash payments, another
> for money order, a third that includes all of our credit cards, possibly
> a monthly report that has all payments.
>
> The way I have been doing this is to go into report setup in
> Maintences & Preferences Menu | General Preferences | Reports.
> I don't really want to have to do this every day and also want more
> than two or three people who have access to the "General
> Preferences Menu" to have access to it.
>
> Yes I know I can do a Generic Payment report by going to
> Payments, "Search Payments", Type = type I want.
> At a push I'll use that but it doesn't tell me how many cheques I
> have in that report and we'd have to write in our bank account
> number etc (whine whine I know...)
The best solution I can think of would be to simply make an external custom
report (getting at the data via XML or ODBC).
- Shawn
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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696
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