Payment Event - Tenders

The Tenders page contains a scroll showing one row for every tender associated with the payment event. Open this page using Main Menu > Payments > Payment Event and navigate to the Tenders tab.

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The Description of Page section that appears below simply describes the fields on this page. Refer to How To for instructions describing how to perform common maintenance functions.

Description of Page

Pay Event Info contains a concatenation of the payment date, amount, and the name of the main taxpayer on the account that remits the tender. If multiple tenders exist, the taxpayer's name is not displayed. If the payment event is associated with a single distribution detail, the rule name and the description of the rule value are displayed as well. If multiple distribution details exist, Multiple Distribution Details Exist is displayed instead. Pay Event Info is only displayed after the payment event has been added to the database.

Payment Event ID is the system-assigned unique identifier of the payment event.

Payment Date is the business date associated with the payment event.

Payment(s) contains the total number and value of payments linked to the event.

Tender(s) contains the total number and value of tenders linked to the event.

Amount Tendered contains the amount that was tendered by the taxpayer.

The system displays a Cash Back Amount if the taxpayer tenders more than they are paying (refer to Cash Back for details).

If the payment event becomes unbalanced, a Recalculate Cash Back button appears. If this button is clicked, the system creates, deletes or recalculates the cash back tender. Refer to Cash Back for details.

The Tenders scroll controls the display of the tenders linked to the payment event. The following simply describes the fields in this scroll; refer to How To for instructions describing how to perform common tender maintenance activities.

CAUTION:

If you change the Payor Account ID and the tender has an associated automatic payment request, the automatic payment request will be removed. A new automatic payment request will be created for the new Payor Account ID. Refer to Automatic Payments for more information.

Displayed adjacent to Tender Control is the date, tender source, and status of the tender control.

Every new tender must reference an open tender control. The system will attempt to default an appropriate tender control as follows:

Turn off Included in Tender Ctl Balance if the tender should not be included in the tender amount in the tender control's tender balance. You would turn this switch off if you canceled a tender because it was mistakenly applied to the wrong account (or the amount was wrong). This switch is only enabled if:

Deposit Control contains a concatenation of the tender control's deposit control's creation date, tender source type, and status. Refer to Tender Management and Workstation Cashiering for more information about deposit controls.

The Characteristics collection contains information that describes miscellaneous information about the tender. The following fields display:

Characteristic Type
Indicate the type of characteristic.
Sequence
Controls the order in which characteristics of the same type are displayed.

Characteristic Value Indicate the value of the characteristic.