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The personal account fields (debtor/creditor role)

Updated over 2 months ago

Purpose

Additional master data improves booking quality, payment processes and automation.
These following fields are particularly important.


Recommended fields for vendors

Field

Field

Purpose / Effect

GO Vendor tax/currency

VAT ID no.

This ID is the reference for rules for the rule-based determination of the personal account.

GO Vendor

Customer number (external)

Enter the customer number assigned to you by your vendor here. This is transferred in the payment run.

GO Vendor terms of payment

Terms of payment

Controls when open items are due and until when cash discount is possible.

GO Vendor terms of payment

Payment type

Enables filtering in the payment run for transfers.

GO Vendor terms of payment

Single transfers only

You can trigger a single transfer per invoice, but the recommendation is to combine several ("No").
See also the settings for AVIS dispatch.

GO Debtor terms of payment

Payment type

Enables assignment to the direct debit run via "Direct debit authorisation".

GO Bank details

IBAN / account holder

Necessary for payment transactions. Pay attention to the "Account holder" field (spelling, but also assigned receivables).
Mark a bank as "Default".

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Recommended fields for debtors

Field

Field

Purpose / Effect

GO Debtor Tax/currency

VAT ID no.

This ID is the reference for rules for the rule-based determination of the personal account. You may be obliged to check it. Use the check link for this.

GO Customer

Customer number

Enter the customer number that you use in outgoing invoices here. This makes it easier to allocate incoming payments later.

GO Customer

Routing ID

If you send XRechnung to the customer, you can enter the routing ID here.

GO Customer terms of payment

Terms of payment

Controls when open items are due and until when cash discount is possible.

GO Customer terms of payment

Payment type

Enables assignment to the direct debit run via "Direct debit authorisation".

GO Customer terms of payment

Invoice format

Specify whether this customer receives outgoing invoices in the standard format according to billing settings or e.g. XInvoices.

GO Customer terms of payment

Price group

If you are not already working with the price list, you can specify here which of the three price groups determines the product prices for this contact.

GO Bank details

IBAN / account holder

Necessary for payment transactions. Pay attention to the "Account holder" field (spelling, but also assigned claims).
Mark a bank as "Default".

Other useful information

  • Responsible supervisor for internal assignment

  • Specification of the corresponding debtor/creditor account

  • Currency for international creditors


Result

  • All payments, postings and tax processes are automated and correct.

  • Accounting errors and manual corrections are reduced.

Tags:
​#Vendor master data #Debtor master data #USt ID #Payment terms #Payment type #Different account holder

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