initial balance (like journal entry) set up for individual clients

Hello,
I understand that you do not mean the general ledger setup, but initial balances for your customers.
Well, this was tricky. I was thinking of using a fiscal year one year back and on the last day, create an invoice with service items for the balance.
Of course, this will also create GL entries, but you will get the AR account updated correctly. The sales account will be there too, but maybe you can do a counter booking manually afterwards.
Well, this was only a thought, maybe other have a better solution.

/Joe

Well, I'm not sure what is the goal you want to achieve.
If your clients have already in use FA 1.xx and want to upgrade to FA 2.0 there is update script to do this without need for making  db changes manually. Don't forget to make db backup before upgrade.

If your clients have another accounting program and you want to move the data to FA 2.0 your there is no one universal receipt. Anyway debtors transactions are stored in debtor_trans table, and current ballances of AR is calculated on the fly from documents like invoices and payments stored in this table.

We looked at the top 15 Accounting systems on Source Forge and I think we like this best.  So we're trying to do a trial conversion from our existing system (Peachtree) and it was really very simple to do so far.

I am interested in taking the customer receivables suggestion one step further.  I've tested an import into debtor_trans of a type 10 and 13 record based on sample entries and it seems to work nicely.  I'm concerned that I'm going to get into trouble later as I enter new invoices; it seems the FA system may just duplicate my transaction numbers.  Is there a table of LAST-USED "debtor_trans.trans_no", "invoice number", etc. somewhere that I need to update. 

I'd like to start my invoice numbers with something higher than "1" anyway.  Is it possible to start at "90000", which would be more compatible with my existing invoices?

Where is the manual?

First thanks for wery good software
I have big problem  if  i "cannot  change transaction number directly". (sorry for my english)

we tested first FA, and find wery interesting , then import into debtor_trans of a type 10 and 13 till trans_no=122
and set up other parameters for initial balance
Problem start when i try to start direct invoice for example, script takes trans_no = 5 , i do not knew from where (i would like to change)
Of course i get error duplicate number entry etc.
Realy whant to knew where can i change start number for  trans_no

please someone help clear up this for me.i did some posting of customers'payments last week and immediately saw the journal entries done for me.my worry now is that under inquiries and reports**customers and sales report**customer**customer balances nothing appears or general ledger**list of journal entries or GL accounts transaction nothing still appears to show me what had happen with my biz previously.in will be waiting for your help.thanks in advance

I'm not sure what you mean, so were have you changd the supplier name? If you have done this on Purchasing/Suppliers you still have only one Supplier. If you want to record transactions to another supplier you have to create new record for him in Purchasing/Suppliers. You can create as many suppliers as you wish.

Probably you have Search Supplier List checked in Company Setup. Uncheck the option, save preferences then try again.