Setting Up Basics

Setting up your Fiscal Information

Main Menu > Setup Data > Fiscal tab

Use this section to enter information pertaining to fiscal areas of your business.

Fiscal Tab Explained

Fiscal year opening date Field

• Enter your Fiscal year opening date by MM, DD, YYYY. For example: January 1, 2016 would be  01/01/16  .

• Frameready automatically converts the date into a friendlier format.

• FrameReady uses this date as the anchor when generating quarterly reports.

Business Number Field

• This is your government Business Number.

• Appears on printed Invoices (bottom, small print).

Currency Field

• Your Currency, as Dollar, Pound, Euro or Rand

Tax Rate Field

• For a single tax, enter the rate, label, short form and exemption number into the Tax 1 field. Leave Tax 2 blank.

• FrameReady will automatically convert the rate to a percentage.

Tax Label Field

• Used to label for the tax as you would like it to appear on printed forms.

Short Form Field

• A short form for the tax as you would like it to appear on the computer screen

• 4 letters maximum

Exemption Certificate # Field

• Tax exemption number(s) necessary for creating Purchase Orders

• When a number is entered here, new Purchase Orders become tax exempt.

How to set up your Fiscal Information

1. Enter your Fiscal year opening date by MM, DD, YYYY. For example: January 15, 2014 would be  01/15/14  .
   
   Frameready automatically converts the date into a friendlier format.

2. Enter your government Business Number.
   
   This number appears on printed Invoices.

3. Choose your Currency:

   • Dollar

   • Pound

   • Euro

   • Rand

4. For a single tax, enter the rate, label, short form and exemption number into Tax 1.

5. Enter your Provincial/State and Federal tax rate.
   
   FrameReady automatically converts the rate to a percentage for you.

6. Enter a label for the tax as you would like it to appear on printed forms.

7. Enter a short form as you would like it to appear on the computer screen (4 letters maximum), e.g.  RST  (retail sales tax).

8. Enter tax exemption number(s) necessary for creating Purchase Orders.
   
   When a number is entered here, new Purchase Orders become tax exempt.

9. Click Done to return to the Main Menu, or select another tab.