Company Detail

This section of the Company Details form enables you to enter several settings at the global level to be used by Collect! for calculations and reporting. These are described below.

Company Details

Credit Grantor

This switch is used for credit reporting and changes some functionality on the debtor records. Switch it ON with a check mark if you are a Credit Grantor. Leave it OFF if you are operating a Collection Agency.

If you are unsure, please leave this switched OFF, or check with your CBR representative to verify whether or not you are reporting as a Credit Grantor. Many aspects of Collect!'s financial calculations and credit reporting depend on this switch being set accurately.

With this switch checked, the following areas are affected:

1. Collect! will handle Delinquent Dates automatically when posting transactions.

2. Whenever an account is recalculated, Collect! will add a line to the notes of any debtor with revolving compound interest set to Amortized. This note line will display the dollar value to bring the account to current.

3. Collect! will use the 30/60/90 values shown for the Debtor when setting the Credit Reporting status of the account. These are visible when 'Show 30/60/90' is switched ON in the debtor's Financial Detail form.

4. The debtor information output to file for credit bureau reporting will follow the specifications for reporting as a Credit Grantor.

FOR CBR: When the Credit Grantor switch is ON, you may go into Client Settings and switch OFF 'Send client details to bureaus' as this is not required when you are reporting as a credit grantor.

Collect! allows 2 types of reporting: Credit Grantor and Collection Agency (default). In Company Details, if you DON'T check Credit Grantor box in the Detail tab, then you are reporting as a Collection Agency. If you DO check Credit Grantor, the software will ALSO check the box in Credit Bureau Setup for 'Report as credit grantor'. This Industry indicator in the Company Details automatically controls the report output so that instead of reporting Trade Line information as a Credit Grantor, a Collection Agency is reporting the fields that go into the Public section of a credit report.

Closed Accounting

With this switch ON, when a statement is generated, the transactions referenced in the statement are locked to Read Only. This prevents editing or deleting of these transactions after the statements are generated.

With this switch ON, Collect! will also skip transactions already connected to an invoice line record, thus preventing a transaction from being on an invoice more than once.

If you ever come across a transaction and all the fields are "grayed out," this means that this transaction is on a statement currently in your system. You can return to this form, uncheck this to switch it OFF, correct or delete your transaction and regenerate your statement. However, a better solution would be to leave the switch ON, post a new correct transaction and then post a transaction to off balance the amount of the erroneous one.

Statement Uses Payment Date

By default, Collect! uses the transaction POSTED DATE to see if it fits into the date range when generating invoice/statements. If you would rather use the transaction PAYMENT DATE, just switch that ON here. Remember that this is on a go forward basis. So, only statements generated from now on will use the Payment Date.

Roll Overpayment Through Trust

This switch affects the behavior of statements and trust reports when dealing with client overpayments, refunded commissions and NSFs.

This switch is designed specifically for our Australian clients, whose country has very demanding trust account laws and auditing practices. When using this switch, please test and verify that the results are as you expect.

When this switch is ON,

1. Net Remit Clients

If a client overpays (or we refund a fee or record an NSF),

a) If the overpayment amount can be covered by the amount received to us that is in the trust account, then we simply send the money back to the client.

b) If the amount held in trust from to us payments is less than the amount we need to send the client including overpayment, then the full amount of To Us is sent to them, and any remaining credit appears as a negative value in the 30 day field.

2. Gross Remit Clients

The current statement's TOTAL field shows the SUBTOTAL minus PAYMENTS plus the TOTAL from the previous statement.

For Gross Remit clients, the 30 DAYS field shows the TOTAL from the previous statement.

a) If a Client owes the agency from previous statements, the amount is totaled into the 30 days field as a POSITIVE value.

b) If a Client overpays or has additional money coming to them from previous statements, the amount is totaled in the 30 days field as a NEGATIVE value.

30 DAYS = Previous TOTAL (positive or negative)
TOTAL = SUBTOTAL - PAYMENTS + 30 DAYS

This switch requires special statement reports and a modified trust report. Please request these from Comtech if you intend to use this switch.

Client Fee Is To Us Commission

By default, Collect! puts client fees into the DIRECT COMM field on the Invoice/Statement form. Switch this ON to have Collect put the client fees into the TO US COMM field instead on the Invoice/Statement form. Remember that this is on a go forward basis.

Multi Currency

Switch this ON to display currency symbols, (e.g. dollar signs, denarii, pounds, francs), in your reports and letters and in Collect! forms. When this is switched ON, Collect! uses the Regional Settings in your Windows system. (Default format, $99,999.99. Yours may be different, depending on your global region.) Set up your regional settings to show your currency symbols. Then, with ' Multi Currency' ON, Collect! reads these regional settings to determine how to display your numbers.

With this switch OFF, you manually control how you display your numbers in reports and letters.

If you are in a situation where funds come to you in different currencies, this switch allows you to keep track of them visually. Switching this ON displays multiple currency fields on several different forms. You will notice additional fields on Financial Detail, Transaction, and Invoice/Statement. The information in these currency fields can be pulled into reports and letters but Collect! does not do exchange rate calculations at present.

Default Currency

Select the currency to use for your accounts. Currently this is for your information.

Last Client

This is the Last Client number that was used when you created a new client. Collect! updates this number whenever you create a new client. This can be set manually, but you must be careful not to end up with duplicate client numbers.

If you want to change the Client Number sequence, you need only change this number. Collect! uses this number to determine the next available Client ID number. Change the number if you delete a Client and want to reuse their ID number. You should never allow two Clients to have the same ID number.

Tax #

This is your Tax registration ID number. It is printed on statements and invoices. Every time you issue a receipt or charge for the tax on your commissions, you have to include your Tax #. If you do not charge tax, you probably don't need this field.