Receivables Workbenches (Oracle Receivables Help)


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Receivables Workbenches

Oracle Receivables provides three integrated workbenches that you can use to perform most of your day-to-day Accounts Receivable operations. You can use the Receipts Workbench to perform most of your receipt-related tasks and the Transactions Workbench to process your invoices, debit memos, credit memos, on-account credits, chargebacks, and adjustments. The Collections Workbench lets you review customer accounts and perform collection activities such as recording customer calls and printing dunning letters.

Each workbench lets you find critical information in a flexible way, see the results in your defined format, and selectively take appropriate action. For example, in the Transactions Workbench, you can query transactions based on the bill-to or ship-to customer, currency, transaction number, or General Ledger date. You can then review financial, application, and installment information, perform adjustments, create a credit memo, or complete the transaction. All of the windows you need are accessible from just one window, so you can query a transaction once then perform several operations without having to find it again.

Function Security

You may not have access to every window, button, or alternative region within a workbench. This is because your system administrator may be using Function Security to prevent users with your responsibility from performing specific Receivables operations. For example, your responsibility might allow you to enter receipts but prevent you from deleting them. For more information, see: Function Security in Oracle Receivables.

Folders

Several of the windows in the Receivables workbenches are folders. Folders let you choose which fields you want to view and where they appear in a window. You can tell if a window is a folder if an open folder icon appears at the top left portion of the window. Additionally, if the profile option Flexview: Allow Customization is set to Yes, you can save your customizations to a particular window to quickly retrieve that subset of records later. You can modify the appearance of a folder by choosing options on the Folder menu.

For more information, see: Customizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder.

Summary and Detail Windows

The Receipts and Transactions workbenches let you view records one at a time or as a group. Detail windows display only one receipt or transaction at a time, but provide more information about the record because they contain more fields and alternative regions. Summary windows, by contrast, can display multiple records at once but require that you "drill down" to the detail window to view additional information about the current record. Following is a list of the available detail and summary windows within the Receivables Workbenches:

Receipts Workbench: Receipts, Receipts Summary, Receipt Batches and Receipt Batches Summary

Transactions Workbench: Transactions and Transactions Summary, Transactions Batches and Transaction Batches Summary

Remittances / Remittances Summary

Find Windows

Find windows are available within each of the Receivables workbenches. These windows let you search for information based on a specific set of criteria that you specify. For example, the Find Transactions window lets you search for multiple records by entering a range of transaction numbers, dates, batches, or transaction types. You can also retrieve a single record by entering a specific document or transaction number. You can access Find windows from the Query menu.

List of Values

The list of values is a powerful, time saving feature that lets you choose valid data for a field from a predefined list. If the <List> lamp appears when your cursor is in a field, you can choose the List of Values icon to view a list of valid entries for that field. Simply click on the value you want; Receivables enters the data you selected and moves the cursor to the next field in the window.

Special Menu

In the Receipts and Transactions Workbenches, the Special pulldown menu lets you perform operations in addition to those provided by the action buttons. For example, in the Receipts Workbench, you can view the sum of multiple receipts in the Receipt Totals window, and review the functional currency gain or loss resulting from a currency exchange rate adjustment in the Receipt History window.

In the Transactions Workbench, the Special menu provides access to functions that are not accessible via action buttons. For example, in the Transactions window there is no Copy button, but you can still copy a transaction by choosing Copy To from the Special menu. Similarly, the Balances button does not appear in the Transactions Summary window, but you can display the Transaction Balances window by choosing Balances from the Special menu.