1. Product Definition
  2. Preface

Preface

This topic contains the following sub-topics:

Introduction

This manual is essentially designed to help you set up products in Oracle Lending. It takes you through the various steps involved in creating a product.

Besides this user manual, you can find answers to specific features and procedures in the Online Help, which can be accessed by choosing Help Contents from the Help Menu of the software. Further, you can obtain information specific to a particular field by placing the cursor on the relevant field and pressing <F1> on the keyboard.

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Audience

This manual is intended for the following User/User Roles

Table -1 Audience

Role Function
Back office clerk Input functions for contracts
Back office managers/officers Authorization functions
Product Managers Product definition and authorization
End of day operators Processing during end of day/ beginning of day
Financial Controller / Product Managers Generation of reports

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Symbols, Definitions and Abbreviations

The following are some of the Symbols you are likely to find in the manual:

Table -2 Symbols

Icons Functions
Exit Exit
Add row Add row
Delete row Delete row
Option List Option List

The images used in the documentation are of illustration purpose and need to be used only for reference.

For more information, refer to Accessibility User Manual.

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Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Table -3 Conventions and Meaning

Convention Meaning

boldface

Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic

Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.

monospace

Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

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List Of Topics

This manual is organized into the following topics.

Table -4 List Of Topics

Topics Description and Cross References
Preface This topic gives information on the intended audience. It also lists the various chapters covered in this User Manual.
Product Definition This topic provides a snapshot of creating and identifying various components of a product.

The topics which are part of Product Definition are:

  1. Advantages of Defining a Product
  2. Creating a Product
  3. Identifying Interest Components for a Product
  4. Identifying Charge Components for a Product
  5. Identifying Tax Components for a Product
  6. Associating the Fee Component with a product
  7. Setting up Accounting Details for a Product
  8. Specifying Branch, Currency, and Customer Restrictions
  9. Specifying MIS Details for a Product
  10. User Defined Fields for a Product
  11. Associating the discount accrual preferences
  12. Status control of a product
  13. Specifying accrual fee details of a product
  14. Associating diary events of a product
  15. Maintaining multi-level authorization of a contract
  16. Maintaining Financial Centre for Holiday Treatment
Glossary Function ID Glossary has alphabetical listing of Function/Screen ID's used in the module with section references for quick navigation.

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Related Documents

For further information on procedures discussed in the manual, refer to the following manuals on:
  • Common Procedures User Manual
  • Interest User Manual
  • Charge and Fees User Manual
  • Tax User Manual
  • Settlements User Manual
  • Bilateral Loans User Manual

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