Recording Sales

MultiLedger offers great flexibility for recording sales. Depending on the type of sale you want to record, the three windows you can use are:

Customer Invoices
Sales Journal
Receipts Journal

These windows are discussed in the following table.

If you want to….	Use this transaction window
Record a sale of inventory items and create an outstanding receivable	Customer Invoices
Record a service sale that creates an outstanding receivable	Customer Invoices or Sales Journal
Create a recurring transaction	Customer Invoices, Sales Journal, or Receipts Journal
Create a quote	Customer Invoices or Sales Journal
Record commissionable sales for your salespeople	Customer Invoices
Create outstanding receivables that are dated prior to your Start Month (for setting up your company with MultiLedger)	Sales Journal
Record a cash sale or part of a deposit that doesn’t involve inventory or create an outstanding receivable	Receipts Journal

If you need to track inventory or salesperson commissions, your choice is simple—you should use Customer Invoices.

If you do not need to track inventory and want the sale to create an outstanding receivable, you can use either Customer Invoices or the Sales Journal. Both windows can record non-inventory sales, such as consulting, labor, or some other service.

Customer Invoices

Customer Invoices offers more flexibility than the Sales Journal for recording a sale that creates an outstanding receivable. It’s the only one to use if you want to account for inventory sales, but it also offers many convenient features for non-inventory sales as well:

You can select up to two sales tax categories, and MultiLedger will automatically calculate the sales tax on taxable items and on shipping if the checkbox is selected.
Since items (non-inventory as well as inventory) already have ledger accounts associated with them, you don’t have to worry about picking the right ledger account for each item; you just pick the right item.
MultiLedger will automatically insert the Selling Price for a selected item (non-inventory and inventory). This can mean fewer mistakes during transaction entry.
The Amount for each detail line will automatically be calculated based on Quantity times Selling Price. You can still modify the calculated amount.
You can create a Quote which can be modified or converted to a Customer Invoice at any time.
You can track commissionable sales for your salespeople.
You can utilize the default pricing level you set up for customers.

Sales Journal

The Sales Journal offers the simplest means for recording a sale that creates an outstanding receivable. For many, it’s the quickest way to enter a sale when they don’t need to keep tabs on an inventory.

Although the Sales Journal does not automatically calculate a sales tax based on a percentage, you can manually figure the tax and enter it as a detail line on the invoice.

The Sales Journal is also used to enter any outstanding invoices that are dated prior to your Start Month when you initially start your company using MultiLedger.