Using factoring

 

Currently, ERPLY Books supports using factoring in Nordea, Danske and Swedbank.

 

Solution

Solution includes following necessities:

  • Managing customers with whom factoring is used
  • Choosing invoices you wish to factor
  • Paying factored invoices in basic amount
  • Paying residue of factored invoices
  • Managing factoring account

Current specific solutions:

  • Swedbank factoring bank report
  • Nordea (EE) input file
  • Nordea (FI) input file
  • Danske input file

 

Account

For every factoring transaction is reasonable to use separate factoring account. You choose this account when you mark invoices paid and also when this amount accumulates to bank. In this case its value increases (you have an account receivable to bank) when you mark invoices as paid. It decreases when bank transacts the money.

Which customers are factored?

If you are also ERPLY POS & Inventory customer and chosen in settings that you are using factoring, we will automatically synchronise respective ERPLY Books customers. For this you have to add condition to ERPLY settings ATTRIBUTE_PAYS_VIA_FACTORING.

If you wish to change these conditions you can do it also directly in ERPLY Books. For this search from dashboard ‘customer attributes’. There you can add/delete prefered customers. Condition to use factoring is ATTRIBUTE_PAYS_VIA_FACTORING.

 

Process

To factor invoices there are two possibilities.

  1. Go to ‘incomes’, ‘open receivables’ and select invoices you can factor. Report includes all open receivables- regardless if you factor customer or not.
  2. To only see invoices of customers that will be factored (and only these invoices that have not yet been factored) you have to go to dashboard and press “factoring” button. Button must be added by ERPLY Books support- respective enquiry must be submitted to support@erplybooks.com. Moving there opens all possible factorable invoices.
    Do the following things:
  1. Select invoices you wish to factor;
  2. Press ‘more’ → ‘factoring’;
  3. ERPLY Books will download file you can upload to your bank;
  4. First go to bank and upload file there and after that we are sure, Books sents invoices to factoring;
  5. In ERPLY Books a window opened after downloading the file where you can confirm factoring in necessary amount;
    1. First confirm- it will confirm invoices and they are not shown in factoring anymore (to eliminate possibility of double sending to bank);
    2. After this you can mark invoices as paid, for you can also select per cent of marking as paid. After request to mark as paid, ERPLY Books will prepare chosen per cent of invoices and you can then confirm and save them. NB: Ensure that in bank import you have chosen payment account as factoring account!

 

How to add payments manually?

For that you have to go to ‘open receivables’ → tick invoice you wish to pay and from lower right select ‘add payment’, after this fill out the columns. For accounts you have to choose Factoring accumulation account.

 

What to do if my bank does not support factoring solution?

You can still use it in ERPLY. Although, you have to manually send invoices to bank that need factoring.

Nevertheless we would recommend you to ask for price quote to introduce your bank. You can send request to info@erplybooks.com.

 

Does factoring account must have balance?

Factoring account has balance when bank has not fulfilled its obligations to You. You can look for error in the ledger when there is no account receivable and there is different balance than 0 on accumulation account. By using logic in range where balance was 0 and from where balance do not go to 0 anymore, must be an error.