• Company ID is a system field designed to give each company a unique ID number. This is not the number that is used in integration with financial systems.

• Company Name is the name for this company.

• Alpha Code is a shorthand code for the company.

• Financial Company is the internal Financial Company this company sits under.

• Company Type categorises the company with custom Company Types.

• Location assigns this company under one of your Locations.

• Currency is the default Currency for this company.

• Price Code allows you to select from existing Price Codes to set custom sell rates for Input Based Selling. See Price Code & Input Billing Overview for more information

• Inactive marks this company as inactive, preventing it from being used in future. If it has been used in purchasing or jobs, the data will remain for historical purposes. Companies cannot be deleted once they have been used elsewhere in the system, but if they were entered by a mistake, the system administrator can use a Utility to remove them.

• Subcontractor is a tickbox used to mark this company as a Subcontractor and therefore able to be used in the Subcontracts module. It also enables the Insurances Tab after saving to track insurances. A subcontractor must also be a supplier, but a supplier not necessarily a subcontractor.

• Client marks this company as a client, enabling them to be used in Jobs and therefore be billed. A company can be both a Client and a Supplier.

• Supplier marks this company as a supplier, enabling them to be used in the Purchasing module.

• Other is a miscellaneous tickbox if the others do not apply. If you are integrating with the Upvise product, this is required to be ticked to synchronize the company across.

• AR Account is the AR linking code to the financial system, and is required for companies marked as a Client.

• AP Account is the AP linking code to the financial system, and is required for companies marked as a Supplier.

• Def. Job Manager allows you to nominate a User as the default job manager for future jobs created with this company as the client.

• Def. Account Manager allows you to nominate a User as the default account manager for future jobs created with this company as the client.

• Payment Terms is the numerical value for days, used in conjunction with the Payment Terms Type below.

• Payment Terms Type allows you to nominate the payment terms for Job Sales Invoices to this company. They are used in conjunction with the Payment Terms number of days, for example a combination of Days from invoice date  and 30 will result in the payment being due 30 days from the nominated invoice date.

• Credit Status gives you the ability to change what the company's credit status is with your company.

• Cash Limit is a reference only field to nominate a cash limit.

• Bank Account Ref 1-3 are also reference fields if needed to store account details.

• GST Number is the tax identifier for this company.

• Use GST will, when ticked, include tax on any sales to this company.

• Cash Only is a reference field to mark this company as a cash-only supplier or client.

• Use Buyer Created Invoices enables the BCI/RCTI interaction with a supplier, removing the need for them to send a final invoice, instead you send them their invoice using a specific template.

This tab contains a list of all addresses used in relation to this company. It can have the main office, site address, warehouse delivery address, etc., and can be independently used in Purchasing, Jobs, and Service Logs.

Each address should have an appropriate Title and corresponding Address details. You can mark addresses as the default Postal or Physical address, making it appear by default in the appropriate report. Click More... for additional address details and email/fax.

Workbench currently supports two address formats:

• Unstructured address: Address 1 - 6, Post Code, Email, Fax, Reference. This one will be deprecated.

• Structured address: Street Line 1, Street Line 2, Suburb, City, State, Country, Postal Code, Email, Fax, Reference.
  

At some point in the future the only address format supported will be the structured format, but for now the format is dictated by the control parameter 'BETA FEATURE - Structured Addresses'. Check here how to migrate from unstructured to structured format.

This tab displays all People that are linked to this company. They can be employees of the company or other contacts such as third-party IT or other contracted persons. You can add a + New Line to add additional persons directly, then to add further details, click on the ID field to open the full People interface. These people can then be converted to Users later if desired.

People entered here can then be used in correspondence, serving as a directory for Workbench users to draw from.

/wiki/spaces/WBJOBCOSTING/pages/43778727 are used to categorise companies in custom ways that aren't already provided for reporting purposes. These are optional and can be updated independently at any time.

• Category is the overarching Group Category for this job.

• Group is the Job Group you wish to apply to this job.

• Value is an optional free text value given to this categorisation.

• You can add additional lines using the New Line link, or delete mistaken or incomplete entries by ticking the Bin checkbox.

See To Dos for more information.

This tab appears when the company is marked as a Subcontractor on the Main tab. It is used to keep track of all insurances across all Subcontracts with the company, and automatically updates with the Subcontract Insurances screen.

• Type is maintained through Insurance Types and can be accessed through the blue ellipsis button.

• Number is the number relevant to the Type, such as the policy number or certification number.

• Expiry Date an be set for items that expire, with custom reports that can be set up to list all expiring insurances.

• Insurer is the entity that issued the insurance

• Cover is the total value covered by the insurance

• Excess is the excess payable on insurance claims.

• File is a button that displays attachments, or while editing the line, opens the attachment dialogue. Files are attached in the same way as the File Attachments tab.

• Subcontract is a dropdown menu that displays all subcontracts for the company and allows linking individual insurances to individual subcontracts.

• Description is an optional area for a description of the insurance.

• Details provides more space for additional details about the insurance that should be recorded.

• Review marks the insurance as reviewed, and is essential when the Control Parameter 'Insurance New Subcontract Checking' is set to Disallow before data can be entered.

Certificates are used to track any type of certificate that is relevant for the company.

• Type comes from Insurance Types and can be searched or modified using the blue ellipsis button when hovering your mouse over this field.

• Number is the number relevant to the Type, such as the policy number or certification number.

• Expiry Date can be set for items that expire, with custom reports that can be set up to list all expiring certificates.

• Issuer is the entity that issued the certificate.

• Description is an optional area for a description of the certificate.

• Details provides more space for additional details about the certificate that should be recorded.

Any discounts or Surcharges that have been pre configured as possible discounts/surcharges to be use dwith the Company or with any of the Jobs linked to this Company will display here and are setup from the Discounts and Surcharges maintenance screen.