1 Reply by john

(14 replies, posted in Banking and General Ledger)

Thanks for those replies. You may well be right about setting up the asset account undeposited funds and then doing the bank deposits from there as transfers.

The one thing that I would need is to be able to print out a listing of that transfer.  The bank requires us to provide them a listing of the cheques in a single deposit (cheque number, payer and amount) and it would be very tedious to have to hand write this.

Think it is possible that I have been confused by some of this previous thread as it seemed to be saying that we couldn't do just what we needed to do.

I will investigate this further before making any firm decision. and let you know the result.

Thank you again for the helpful replies.

John

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2 Reply by john

(14 replies, posted in Banking and General Ledger)

I think this problem with being able to handle batched deposits is going to be the reason we cannot use FrontAccounting.
We accept payments from our customers by cash, cheque, card payments and direct debit. For all of these payment types the customer payments are batched together and banked as one single deposit.  With cheques the bank asks for a maximum of 50 cheques per deposit, with other payment methods there is no limit to the number of customer payments which are batched together into one deposit (although it is very rarely more than 50).
It would be absurd to write a single paying-in slip for each customer payment, and in any case for card paymets and direct debits, we don't have the option of doing this. So an accounting system that cannot handle these deposits is not going to be any use to us.
We are currently using quickbooks, which we have to move away from in order to improve the integration with other software which is integral to the way we handle sales. I am by no means a fan of quick books but it is easy to deal with bank deposits - the customer payments are posted to an account - undeposited funds - then there is a simple interface for making up the actual deposit that goes into the bank.
I am sad to have to make this decision as FrontAccounting seemed in many ways to do exactly what we needed and I could see how to do the integration that we needed.
Best wishes.
John

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3 Reply by john

(2 replies, posted in Installation)

Thanks very much. Problem solved. I didn't know where to look and that was the answer.

Thanks

John

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4 Topic by john

(2 replies, posted in Installation)

Sorry, I feel lost and would be very grateful for any help.

Windows XP professional sevice pack 3
MySQL version 5.1.40 community
PHP is the latest version (downloaded yesterday)
Using IIS

I have been following the instalation guide but  when i get to step 2

Enter your_url/account (or whatever directory you entered). This will run the install wizard if this is the first time you run FrontAccounting, setup a drill company and optional populating with initial demo data.

I am entering into Internet Explorer  http://localhost/account/ but all this gives me is a listing of the folder.  I have tried clicking index.php but this gives me the following:
<?php
/**********************************************************************
    Copyright (C) FrontAccounting, LLC.
    Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GPL,
    as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
    of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
    See the License here <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.
***********************************************************************/
    $path_to_root=".";
    if (!file_exists($path_to_root.'/config.php'))
        header("Location: ".$path_to_root."/install/index.php");

    $page_security = 'SA_OPEN';
    ini_set('xdebug.auto_trace',1);
    include_once("includes/session.inc");

    add_access_extensions();
    $app = &$_SESSION["App"];
    if (isset($_GET['application']))
        $app->selected_application = $_GET['application'];

    $app->display();
?>

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