This the money tab:) you must have customers to send INVOICIES to for the FREIGHT that you HAUL!
Enter them here. not doing field by field walk through.
- **put CURSOR in SEARCH field and simply TYPE FIRST FEW LETTERS of any customer to INSTANTLY locate then in your customer list!!
- can be used for a CALL LIST to get more freight. they can be sorted many different ways to assist in calling.
- you can maintain basic RATE QUOTES here as well (tab)
- Scanned documents (tab)
- manage basic credit limits (financial tab)
- make a customer INACTIVE if they have BAD credit/paymt issues.
- we provide TWO address's for customers, a physical address so you may enter ALL offices they have. Acme Widgets could have 5 offices around country that you call daily for freight, but ALL BILLS got to ONE office to get you paid. we provide the "copy physical address->Bill To address" button so you can copy teh address to billing IF ITS NOT DIFFERENT,
- NOTE: you cannot print an invoice without a BILLING ADDRESS!
- You can COPY any customer to either shippers or receivers with a button press!
BILLING ADDRESS tab
TERMS: only available with Quickbooks on. you must select a term from the drop down list. if you type one in and its not in QB, invoice will fail to EXPORT
info is copied here using provided btn on 'Physical Location' tab (see above)
RATE QUOTES (tab)
you can create, print and manage all rate quotes for any customer here. highlight the customer you wish to make a QUOTE for. go to the 'Rate Quote' TAB.
click the 'Add/edit Rates' button.
you press the ADD btn to add a NEW rate quote. TYPE field has drop down, can be either:
- MANUAL-. this is where you are quoting from point A to point B. one rate on one lane. you specify origin & destination
- STATE -> this is where you quote from single ORIGIN to any or all 48 states and Canada.
proper city, st format shown below.
this is also what a MANUAL A->B quote looks like.
if you QUOTE using STATE, then you must put a rate in any state you wish to haul, put NA (not available) an any state you wish to avoid!
below is printout of BOTH types of rate quotes