Miscellaneous Customers

These are customer types rather than individual customers. By designating a customer record as Miscellaneous you are instructing the system that this is a group of people/companies that have many things in common but are not the same entity each time they are referred to. When a sale, quote or order is made to a miscellaneous customer you are provided with the ability to identify the customer in detail specifically for that document. This means that for each document a miscellaneous customer can have a different name, address and price method.

All miscellaneous customers are automatically set to cash only terms. This is to prevent account sales being made to a customer where the receipt would not easily be identifiable to the original invoice, given that each invoice may have a different name.

The classic example of a miscellaneous customer is given in the default customer record. (dot [.] customer code). The purpose of this record is to allow definition of the customer and pricing for over the counter, casual, cash in hand sales. It is not intended that this be the only record that can be used for cash sales. A cash sale can always be made to a customer who typically buys on regular terms (eg. 30 days). If a customer regularly buys goods from you and pays cash you may wish to add that customer as their own separate entry rather than using the default customer. This has the benefit of recording the sales for that customer, allowing customer pricing and saving the repeated entry of customer delivery and other details.