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Lesson 1. Company Information in Free Accounting
Lesson 2. Create a Vendor in Free Accounting
Lesson 3. Create an Item in Free Accounting
Lesson 4. Purchase an Item in Free Accounting
Lesson 5. Create Purchase Order Receipt in Free Accounting
Lesson 6. Make Payment to the Vendor in Free Accounting
Lesson 7. Vendor Pay Bills in Free Accounting
Lesson 8. Create a Customer in Free Accounting
Lesson 9. Create a Sales Order in Free Accounting
Lesson 10. Create an Invoice in Free Accounting
Lesson 11. Receive Payment form the Customer in Free Accounting
Lesson 12. Reconcile Payment with Charge in Free Accounting
Lesson 13. Customer SO Return in Free Accounting
Lesson 14. Create Credit Memo in Free Accounting
Lesson 15. Vendor PO Return in Free Accounting
Lesson 16. Create Return PO Receipt in Free Accounting
Lesson 17. View Reports in Free Accounting
Lesson 18. Bank Reconciliation in Free Accounting
Lesson 19. Trial Balance in Free Accounting
Free Accounting Vendors List
The Free Accounting Vendors List keeps the information about the Vendors from whom the company purchases their items. Before items can be purchased and sold to the Customers afterwards, the Vendor for the items must be added to the list.

If you want to view the Vendors List you should select Lists / Vendors List from the Free Accounting Main Menu or press Vendors button Vendors on the Commands Panel and select Vendors List button Vendors List in the Navigation Pane.

Repeat the following steps to add a new Vendor in the Free Accounting application:
  1. Select Lists / Vendors List from the Free Accounting Main Menu.

  2. Right click in the Preview Pane and select Add.

  3. Enter the required information into the fields. After saving, this information can be edited in Free Accounting by right clicking in the Preview Pane and selecting Edit or just by double clicking on the line.
  4. Press the Ok button.


Address Information:

    New Vendor Address Information window

Vendor - The name of the Vendor's company.
Code - This is a unique, ten-digit, alphanumeric number that identifies the Vendor in the Free Accounting application.

First Name - The Vendor's first name.
Last Name - The Vendor's last name.
Phone - The 7 or 10 digit phone number of the Vendor.
Fax - The 7 or 10 digit fax number of the Vendor.
Address - This is a street or postal address of the Vendor. If the user will be picking up or shipping goods to the Vendor, use the street address here. There is an address area on the Payment/Order Terms tab for entering of the mailing address.
City - The city the Vendor's company is located in.
State/Province - The State/Province the Vendor's office is in.
Zip code - The postal zone of the company's street address.
County - The county the Vendor's company is in.
Country - The country the Vendor is in.

Payment/Order Terms:

    New vendor payment information window

EIN - Employer Identification Number. It is a nine-digit number assigned to Employers by the federal government in the format 99-9999999.
Account - This is an account that the transactions connected with the current Vendor affect.
Terms - This is how the company is expected to remit payments to this Vendor.
Ship Via - This is how the Vendor will ship its product.
Web Address - This is a Vendor's web address. Once it is entered, the user has only to click on the Go button and it will open the web site.
E-mail - The e-mail of the Vendor through which he can be easily got in contact with.
Send Payment To:
Address - This is the address printed on the check that is paid to the Vendor. If the billing address is different from the shipping address, enter the billing address here.
City - This is the town or city where payments will be sent.
State/Province - This is a State or Province where the payments will be sent.
Zip code - This is a postal code in US or Canadian format.
County - This is a county of the state the business is in.
Country - This is a country where the Vendor's company is in.

If the Vendor's billing address coincides with his shipping address you can press the Copy from Address Info button, and the information will be copied from the fields of the Address Info tab.

Custom Fields Tab
On this tab you can create the fields that you need for inserting any necessary information about the current item. See Custom Fields Tab.

Use Search function to look up the record of the Vendor you are interested in.
See the information about the right click function of the Vendors List window in the Free Accounting Right Click Function window.
See also:
Free Accounting Company
Free Accounting Vendors
Free Accounting Lists

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