1. Preface

1.1 Introduction

This manual is designed to help you to quickly get acquainted with the Retail Bills module of Oracle FLEXCUBE.

It provides an overview to the module and takes you through the various steps involved setting up and maintaining retail bills.

You can further obtain information specific to a particular field by placing the cursor on the relevant field and striking <F1> on the keyboard.

This manual is intended for the following User/User Roles:

Role	Function
Back office data entry clerk	Input functions for funds
Back office managers/officers	Authorization functions
Product Managers	Product definition and authorization
End of day operators	Processing during end of day/ beginning of day

This user manual may have reference to the following abbreviations/acronyms.

Acronym/Abbreviation	Description
SWIFT	Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
CIF	Customer Information File
Dr	Debit
Cr	Credit
ID	Identification
TELEX	Telecommunication Exchange
BOD	Beginning of Day
EOD	End of Day
EOTI	End of Transaction Input
BIC	Bank Identifier Code

This manual is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter	Description
Chapter 1	Preface gives information on the intended audience. It also lists the various chapters covered in this User Manual.
Chapter 2	Retail Bills - An Overview explains the snapshot of the features that the module provides.
Chapter 3	Maintenances provides the details of basic set-ups and maintenances required for using retail bills module.
Chapter 4	Retail Bills Product deals with the procedure to create a retail bills product.
Chapter 5	Outward Retail Bills Contract explains the methods of creation and further processing of outward retail bill contracts in Oracle FLEXCUBE.
Chapter 6	Inward Retail Bills Contract explains the methods of creation and further processing of inward retail bill contracts in Oracle FLEXCUBE.
Chapter 7	Cash Letter explains the creation of cash letter contracts and tracking of foreign currency cheques under cash letters.
Chapter 8	Overseas Cheques explains the methods to create, finance and maintain overseas cheques.
Chapter 9	Automatic Processes explains the batch programs and other automated activities that can be performed for retail bills module.
Chapter 10	Reports gives the details of reports that can be generated for retail bills module.
Chapter 11	Annexure contains the event wise list of advices generated for retail bills module
Chapter 12	Function ID Glossary has alphabetical listing of Function/Screen IDs used in the module with page references for quick navigation.

You may need to refer to any or all of the User Manuals while working on the AM module:

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