100 likes | 281 Views
AR Enhancement Discussion. Brenda McAfee John Bonilla. History. PSCARE’s Track Record of Enhancement Requests added to Peoplesoft releases History of PSCARE’s close relationship with Peoplesoft (now Oracle Strategist) Enhancement Request currently in discussion. PSCARE Survey Results.
E N D
AR Enhancement Discussion Brenda McAfee John Bonilla
History • PSCARE’s Track Record of Enhancement Requests added to Peoplesoft releases • History of PSCARE’s close relationship with Peoplesoft (now Oracle Strategist) • Enhancement Request currently in discussion.
PSCARE Survey Results • Based on the following criteria there were 7 enhancements that received 2 or more votes • 1 - high priority • 2 - a nice to have or • 3 - no need at all. • The top 3 are as follows: • Ability to unpost a direct journal. • Excel Upload to Billing: Create a process similar to the AR Payment Excel Upload using the Component Interface that would allow multiple bills (header, lines, notes, & DST) to be uploaded to the Billing Interface. • Standard Billing Configurable Page. Ability to configure a single billing page with only required fields (fields being used by company)
Latest Update from Oracle • Of the 3 top: • I will add the first one to the post 9.2 list of items. • Excel Upload is already out there as part of FP1. We will be doing some more enhancements to this around usability and validations. • Configurable billing page is being handled in 9.2 as well. • We are looking at partial unpost of payments for 9.2. • Some others on the list are also being done for 9.2.
Next Top 3 • OPRID to be saved on the Billing Header on Credits and Rebills even though it is processed in batch by a batch ID. • Planned for 9.2 • Billing Dashboard - Alerts for Errors, Pending Items, etc. Summary of Bills by Status, by BU, Drill Down Capability to Customer Level • Available in 9.1 - need to know what is delta • Automatic emailing and/or faxing of invoices to customers in PDF or Crystal format from Customer Account. ("Reprint" to customer or other contact via email or fax from the Customer) Berlin Packaging has customized this process. • Planned for 9.2
Other Requests Available in 9.1 • Ability to generate Conversations in Billing and access conversations from a billing screen. Be able to attach bills (including Drafts/Estimates that do not load to AR) to a Conversation. Have the conversation go to AR with bill. • Scheduled payments via Direct Debit (eCheck, paypal, check 21) • Reprint invoice process should automatically back out previous run of invoice selection
Other Requests Planned for 9.2 • Attach documents to a bill when its being emailed - any attachments would go in the same place • Cash Deposit should release order even though the payment is pending through lockbox processing • Partial Unpost of Payments • Automatch options to restrict matching to one BU, multiple Bus • Earned Discount allowed with Credit Card Payment or direct debit • Pending Credit Card Transactions when Credit Cards have been declined. Comes in from Order Management.
Other Requests of Interest • When Intercompany AP is paid ( that comes from AR), needs to come back to AR, create a deposit and payment with reference information for payment predictor can match it off. • Yum Customized This Process • Mirror the functionality currently in Accounts Payable nVision drill down templates and add it in AR and Billing • Need the ability to restrict credit card payments to certain customer types or bill types or bill source (umn) • Include important Bill Header fields in the XML Publisher extract (OPRID, custom fields - custom 1, 2, 3) • Need an “undo” feature when using Interunit allocations, tiered billing.
Other Suggestions w/o Strategist Needs Details • XML Extract takes phone number but no name for the internal billing contact - even vanilla does not have this • Intercompany Unbilled Accrued Revenue - Ability to accrue unbilled revenue for intercompany billings. • Control Data Audit - Customer for payment terms, credit terms, credit holds • Customer sending email through eBill. Does it set up a conversation? If so, does it show up in the AR Conversations page.