What are Vendor Prepayments? When Vendor requests a deposit or payment before a Purchase Order is approved or before a Vendor Bill is issued, you can record this payment as a Vendor Prepayment in NetSuite.
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What is Segmentation in Netsuite? Segmentation or classification are ways to categorize entity (Vendor, Customer, Item) records and transactions amounts in NetSuite. For instance, you may want to see your Income Statement separated out by Location; Location will be a classification field on your transactions. There is native reporting function that will automatically break up your Financial Statements in segmentations.
Tags: NetSuite, Reporting, NetSuite How To's, Accounting, NetSuite Tips, Segmentation, Financial, Transactions, Classification, Income Statement, Journal Entry, Trial Balances, Reclass
So you are getting ready to implement the Fixed Asset Management (FAM) module in NetSuite. After configurations and set up, you are ready to load your assets. Looking at the Asset Record, you realize there are some additional fields you want to add or some existing fields you want to move around. Below is a quick How To on customizing the Asset Record entry form to best suit your company’s needs.
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Congratulations! You are ready to go live with NetSuite! Before you start entering live transactions, the Opening Balance Sheet needs to be entered; this is your starting balance for your financial statements. Normally, this is a simple Journal Entry upload of your last closed period’s Balance Sheet. However, if you have Intercompany Accounts with balances, then a simple one step Journal Entry will not be enough. Intercompany Accounts require additional set up and separate Journal Entries for each customer or vendor.
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You find yourself working with columns and columns of data for a client. In this particular scenario, you need to find a combination of transactions that total a certain amount. As you can imagine, this can be endless amounts of combinations to iterate through. There is a data trick using an Excel add-in called Solver. Here’s how it works...
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What is Integration Governance? Integration Governance helps manage the multiple 3rd party integration calls or internal script requests. It is very likely you may run into a concurrency issue if your NetSuite environment is heavily customized with scripts, have several API or EDI connections such as marketplace integrations (Amazon, eBay, HomeDepot, etc), and/or have 3PL connections. NetSuite limits the number of simultaneous calls into NetSuite at one time. When this happens, your call will fail and result in an error.
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If you find yourself reconciling monthly bank statements but the Reconciliation reports keep showing a difference, then it means you have not successfully reconciled one or more previous months.
Tags: NetSuite, NetSuite How To's, Bank Reconciliation, Bank Account, Bank Reconciliation Errors
In a previous blog we explored Netsuite Purchase Request vs. Purchase Requisition. In this blog we’ll explore the complexity of chart of accounts redesign. We provide some tips and learnings from a previous chart of accounts redesign project.
Tags: NetSuite, Accounting, Segmentation, Financial, COA, General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, GL
Mass Update function is normally used for data updates to entity and transaction records. In addition, Mass Update can be used to send transactional emails in bulk. For instance, a simple way of sending customers overdue invoice reminders is to send it through Mass Update. You can set criteria of what invoices to send, create a standard message, and attach the invoice to the email. Here is a quick guide on how to do that.
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As much as we try, companies still end up with multiple email accounts and data storage. There are several ways to connect or integrate all these sources so that NetSuite continues to be your system of record. One particular product is Celigo's CloudExtend Google Workspace. This is a simple SuiteApp that connects popular Google applications with NetSuite records.
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