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How to forecast future bills to pay?
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When you get hundreds of vendor bills per month with each of them having
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different payment terms, it could be complex to follow what you have to
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pay and when. Paying your vendors too early can decrease your cash
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availabilities and paying too late can lead to extra charges.
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Fortunately, Odoo provides you the right tools to manage payment orders
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to vendors efficiently.
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Configuration: payment terms
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In order to track the vendor conditions, we use payment terms in Odoo.
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Payment terms allow to keep track of the conditions to compute the due
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date on an invoice. As an example, a payment term can be:
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- 50% within 30 days
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- 50% within 45 days
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To create your most common payment terms, use the menu: :menuselection:`Configuration -->
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Management --> Payment Terms` in the **Accounting** application. The following
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example show a payment term of 30% directly and the balance after 30
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days.
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.. image:: ./media/forecast01.png
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:align: center
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Once payment terms are defined, you can assign them to your vendor by
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default. Set the Vendor Payment Term field on the Accounting tab of a
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vendor form. That way, every time you will purchase to this vendor, Odoo
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will propose you automatically the right payment term.
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.. image:: ./media/forecast02.png
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:align: center
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.. note::
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If you do not set a specific payment term on a vendor, you will still be
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able to set a specific payment term on the vendor bill.
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Forecast bills to pay with the Aged Payables report
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In order to track amounts to be paid to the vendors, use the Aged
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Payable report. You can get it from the Reports menu of the Accounting
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application. This report gives you a summary per vendor of the amounts
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to pay, compared to their due date (the due date being computed on each
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bill using the payment term).
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.. image:: ./media/forecast03.png
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:align: center
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This reports tells you how much you will have to pay within the next
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months.
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Select bills to pay
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Using the menu :menuselection:`Purchases --> Vendor Bills`, you can get a list of vendor
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bills. Using the advanced filters, you can list all the bills that you
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should pay or the bills that are overdue (you are late on the payment).
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.. image:: ./media/forecast04.png
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:align: center
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From this screen, you can also switch to the pivot table or the graph
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view to get statistics on the amount due over the next month, using the
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group by "Due Date" feature.
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