Overview of Oracle Receivables

Oracle Receivables provides integrated functionality to perform day-to-day accounts receivable operations. Receivables functionality is managed from these Overview work areas: Billing, Receivables Balances, Revenue Management, and Credit Management.

All work areas provide access to general ledger account activities, including creating accounting, creating manual journal entries, and reviewing journal entries.

Billing Work Area

Use the Billing work area to perform tasks related to customer billing activities. Monitor and review incomplete transactions, and approve and research pending adjustments. Use AutoInvoice to import transactions from other systems and generate invoices and credit memos automatically according to your requirements. You can review and correct AutoInvoice import errors and resubmit AutoInvoice. Create new invoices, debit memos, credit memos, and on-account credit memos. Perform related activities to manage your transactions: update, duplicate, credit, adjust, dispute, and preview a transaction. You can also create a new customer record and manage existing customers from the Billing work area.

Receivables Balances Work Area

Use the Receivables Balances work area to perform tasks related to customer payment activities and the management of accounts receivable balances. Review actionable items, including open receipts and receipt batches, unapplied and on-account receipts and credit memos, receipt remittance batches, and funds transfer errors. Create receipts manually, import receipts using lockbox or spreadsheet, or create automatic receipts. Perform related activities to manage your receipts: apply, unapply, reverse, delete; create invoice adjustments or chargebacks during receipt application; and remit, clear, or risk eliminate factored receipts. You can manage receipt remittances: create, modify, and approve receipt remittance batches. You can also perform tasks related to managing accounts receivables balances, including reconciling receivables to the general ledger and managing receivables accounting period statuses.

Revenue Management Work Area

Use the Revenue Management work area to perform tasks related to revenue recognition and revenue adjustments. Run the Recognize Revenue program to generate revenue distribution records for invoices and credit memos that use invoicing and revenue scheduling rules. Perform revenue adjustments on one or more transactions, including scheduling and unscheduling revenue; reviewing, adding, and expiring revenue contingencies; and transferring sales credits. You can also manage revenue policies, revenue contingencies, and rules that assign revenue contingencies to transactions automatically.

Credit Management Work Area

Use the Credit Management work area to create credit profiles for your customers. The credit profile contains key information for establishing the creditworthiness of each of your customers, including credit classifications, credit limits, and credit review cycles. Review and evaluate specific credit authorization requests; run periodic reviews of the creditworthiness of your existing customers; review customer credit scores, and provide recommendations for customer credit. Build scoring models that calculate a credit score based on credit data specific to a customer; maintain detailed information about customer financial and accounting history; and create templates for different types of credit reviews that are automatically assigned to specific credit scenarios.

Customer Information

From either the Billing or Receivables Balances work area, you have access to manage both customer information and customer account activities, in summary and in detail. You can review customer account information by a single business unit, bill-to site, or across all business units and bill-to sites. For each customer account, you can review transactions and receipts, dispute and adjust transactions, and drill down to current or historical customer account activity.