[IMP] accounting: Update followup pages for 12.0
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customer_payments/check
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customer_payments/payment_sepa
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customer_payments/followup
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customer_payments/automated_followups
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How to automate customer follow-ups with plans?
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With the Odoo Accounting application, you get a dynamic aged receivable
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report, customer statements and you can easily send them to customers.
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If you want to go further in the automation of the credit collection
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process, you can use follow-up plans. They will help you automate all
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the steps to get paid, by triggering them at the right time: send
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customer statements by emails, send regular letter (through the Docsaway
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integration), create a task to manually call the customer, etc...
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Here is an example of a plan:
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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| When? | What? | Who? |
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+==========================+==========================+===================+
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| 3 days before due date | Email | automated |
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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| 1 day after due date | Email + Regular Letter | automated |
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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| 15 days after due date | Call the customer | John Mac Gregor |
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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| 35 days after due date | Email + Letter + Call | John Mac Gregor |
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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| 60 days after due date | Formal notice | Bailiff |
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+--------------------------+--------------------------+-------------------+
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Configuration
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Install Reminder Module
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You must start by activating the feature, using the menu
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:menuselection:`Configuration --> Settings` of the Accounting application.
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From the settings screen, activate the feature **Enable payment follow-up management**.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups01.png
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:align: center
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Define Payment Follow-ups Levels
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To automate customer follow ups, you must configure your follow–up
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levels using the menu :menuselection:`Accounting --> Configuration --> Payment Follow-ups`.
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You should define one and only one follow-up plan per company.
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The levels of follow-up are relative to the due date; when no payment
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term is specified, the invoice date will be considered as the due date.
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For each level, you should define the number of days and create a note
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which will automatically be added into the reminder letter.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups04.png
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:align: center
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Odoo defines several actions for every reminder:
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- **Manual Action:** assign a responsible that will have to call the customer
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- **Send an Email:** send an email to customer using the provided text
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- **Send a Letter:** send a letter by regular mail, using the provided note
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups02.png
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:align: center
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.. Note::
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As you need to provide a number of days relative to the due date,
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you can use a negative number. As an example, if an invoice is issued
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the January 1st but the due date is January 20, if you set a reminder 3
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days before the due date, the customer may receive an email in January
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17.
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Doing your weekly follow-ups
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Once everything is setup, Odoo will prepare follow-up letters and emails
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automatically for you. All you have to do is to the menu
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:menuselection:`Sales --> Customers Statement` in the accounting application.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups09.png
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:align: center
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Odoo will automatically propose you actions based on the follow-up plan
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you defined, invoices to pay and payment received.
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You can use this menu every day, once a week or once a month. You do not
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risk to send two times the same reminder to your customer. Odoo only
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proposes you the action you have to do. If you do it every day, you will
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have a few calls to do per day. If you do it once a month, you will have
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much more work once you do it.
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It's up to you to organize the way you want to work. But it's a good
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practice to reconcile your bank statements before launching the
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follow-ups. That way, all paid invoices will be reconciled and you will
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not send a follow-up letter to a customer that already paid his invoice.
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From a customer follow-up proposition, you can:
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- Get the customer information to contact him
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- Drill down to the customer information form by clicking on its name
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- Change the text (or the email or letter) and adapt to the customer
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- Change the colored dot to mark the customer as being a good, normal
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or bad debtor
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- Log a note is you called the customer
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- Exclude some invoices from the statement table (litigation)
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- Send an email with the statement
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- Print a letter, or send a regular mail (if you installed the Docsaway
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integration)
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- Plan the next reminder (but it's better to keep in automatic mode so that Odoo
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will stick to the follow-up plan of the company)
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- Drill down to an invoice
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- Change the expected payment date of an invoice (thus, impacting the
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next time Odoo will propose you to send a reminder)
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.. note::
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You can force a customer statement, even if Odoo do not proposes
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you to do it, because it's not the right date yet. To do this, you
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should go to the Aged Receivable report (in the report menu of the
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Accounting application). From this report, you can click on a customer
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to get to his customer statement.
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How to exclude an invoice from auto follow up?
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To see all **overdue invoices** or **on need of action**,
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Go to :menuselection:`Accounting --> Sales --> Customers Statement`
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups05.png
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:align: center
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Exclude a specific invoice for a specific date
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Odoo can exclude an invoice from follow-ups actions for specific date by
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clicking on **Log a Note**, then choose one of the ready options (*one week*,
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*two weeks*, *one month*, *two months*), So Odoo will calculate the
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required date according to the current date.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups03.png
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:align: center
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Another way to achieve it is the following: click on the required invoice,
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then choose **Change expected payment date/note**, then enter a new payment date and note.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups07.png
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:align: center
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Exclude a specific invoice forever
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Odoo can exclude an invoice for a specific customer by clicking on
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the checkbox **Excluded**
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.. note::
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If you click on **History**, you can see all follow ups actions.
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.. image:: ./media/automated_followups06.png
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:align: center
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=================================================
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How to get paid and organize customer follow-ups?
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=================================================
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Getting paid and organizing customer reminders is always a difficult
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task, however it is critical for the health of the company to stay
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diligent about outstanding receivables. Fortunately, Odoo provides the
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right tools to track receivables, automate customer statements, and
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measure your performance.
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Customer follow-ups: A step by step guide
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Follow-up on invoices and get paid faster
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Cleaning up outstanding payments
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It is essential for your business to collect payments when they are
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overdue. Odoo will help you identify payments that are late and will
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allow you to send the appropriate reminders.
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If you have any unreconciled transactions in your bank account, you will
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need to process them first before you begin analyzing your customers
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statements. This ensures that you have recorded all of the latest
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customer payments before sending out reminders to any customers with
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outstanding balances.
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.. image:: ./media/followup01.png
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:align: center
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Checking the Aged Receivables report
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After you have reconciled all of your bank accounts, you can then
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generate an accurate Aged Receivables Report from the Reports menu. This
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report will display all of the customers and their outstanding balances
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on open invoices.
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.. image:: ./media/followup02.png
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:align: center
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The report displays this information in time increments to better paint
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a picture of the outstanding balances your customers hold and for how
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long they have held these outstanding balances. You can then
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appropriately focus your efforts on the appropriate customers.
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You can then select any of the customers on this list and Odoo will open
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up their invoice details in the form of the Customer Follow-Up letter,
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also known as the **Customer Statement**.
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.. image:: ./media/followup03.png
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:align: center
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From the customer statement, you can:
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- Change and customize the message that is sent to the customer
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- Send a reminder email to the customer
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- Send a printed reminder letter to the customer
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- Send automated printed reminders by utilizing our Docsaway
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integration
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- Zoom in on the different open invoices or payments
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- Remove an invoice or payment from the report (in case of conflict)
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- Log any call notes made to the customer
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- Schedule your next follow up task to stay on top of customer payments
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(e.g. call back in 15 days if not payments are made)
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You can set reminders for when you would like to next contact the
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particular customer. Selecting **Manual** will open up the follow up
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scheduling tool, while selecting **Auto** will automatically recommend that
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you contact the customer 15 days from then if the customer has not yet
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paid for the invoice. Installing the **Follow-Up Plans** module will allow
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you to define automated actions and intervals to send reminders.
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.. image:: ./media/followup04.png
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:align: center
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If you have already sent out a reminder to a customer a few days ago, a
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warning message will appear at the top of the screen, reminding you that
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you should not send another reminder so soon since one was already sent
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recently. Every time you log a note, Odoo will automatically set the
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next reminder date, unless you choose to manually set it by selecting
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the next reminder button at the top right of the screen.
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Manage your follow-ups
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======================
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.. tip::
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You can also specify the expected payment date on an invoice line directly,
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therefore defining the next reminder in case the invoice has not been paid.
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We recommend that you reconcile your bank statements before
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launching your follow-up process. It will avoid you the trouble of
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sending a statement to a customer that has already paid you.
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Sending customer statements
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The overdue invoices you need to follow-up on are available by default
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in :menuselection:`Accounting --> Sales --> Follow-up Reports`. There,
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you can easily send a reminder by email or print it as a letter. Then,
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you can click on the *Done* button to view the next follow-up that
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needs your attention.
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Send your customers reminders in batches in the menu :menuselection:`Sales -->
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Customer Statements`.
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Otherwise, if now is not the time for a reminder, click on *Remind me
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later*. You will get the next report according to the *Next Reminder
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Date* set on the statement.
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Here Odoo will open all the statements awaiting to be processed, which
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is determined by the last reminder they received. You can choose to
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process them one by one, send multiple letters or emails in batches, or
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set a next action date for the next time they'll be contacted.
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.. tip::
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To avoid sending too many reminders in a short period of time,
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change the number of days calculated between each report by going to
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:menuselection:`Accounting --> Configuration --> Settings --> Payment
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Follow-up`.
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.. note::
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You can also set a trust level for your customers by marking them as
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bad, normal or good debtors on the follow-up reports.
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If an invoice has not yet been paid, Odoo will remind you to contact at
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particular customer based after their next action date.
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.. image:: media/followup01.png
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:align: center
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You can access the customer statement report daily and Odoo will only
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display the customers you need to contact on any given day. This is
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based on:
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Send reminders in batch
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=======================
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- Customers you have not yet received a payment from
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To get your follow-up process easier, you can send reminder emails in
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batch from your follow-up reports page. Select all the reports you would
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like to process, click on *Action* and then on *Process Follow-ups*.
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A pdf document containing all of the follow-up letters for you to print
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will also be automatically generated.
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- Customers that have not been reminded over the last X days ("X" being
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defined as the overdue date of the invoice after the first
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reminder, then the next action date set at every reminder)
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.. image:: media/followup02.png
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:align: center
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Setting up your dunning process
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Plan a follow-up process
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The **Payment Follow-up Management** module allows you to define
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reminder plans. After installing it from the **Apps** menu, go to the
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**Follow-up Levels** menu in the accounting configuration to set up your
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dunning process.
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To plan a follow-up process, go to :menuselection:`Accounting -->
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Configuration --> Settings` and activate the *Follow-up Levels*
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feature under the *Customer Payments* section. Then, click on the new
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*Follow-up Levels* button that has appeared on your settings page.
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Some Examples are:
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A follow-up plan with several actions is available by default in Odoo,
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but you can customize it any way you want. Depending on a specific
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number of overdue days, plan to send an email, a letter or to undertake
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a manual action. You can also edit the template used for the statement
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according to the stage of the process.
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- **Email**: 3 days before overdue date
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.. image:: media/followup03.png
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:align: center
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- **Email+Letter**: at the overdue date
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- **Email+Call**: 15 days after the overdue date
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- **Email+Letter**: 60 days after the overdue date
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.. image:: ./media/followup05.png
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:align: center
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Thanks to this module, you can send every email and letters in batches
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for all your customers at once. The next reminder will automatically be
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computed based on your configured follow-up plan.
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The module will also add a red/green dot on each customer, this will
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allow you to easily mark customer status's with the following options:
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"Good Debtor, Normal Debtor, or bad debtors.
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.. image:: ./media/followup06.png
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:align: center
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DSO: Measuring your performance
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===============================
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The DSO (Days of Outstanding Sales) is a measure of the average number
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of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been
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made. DSO is calculated by dividing the amount of accounts receivable
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during a given period by the total value of credit sales during the same
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period, and multiplying the result by the number of days in the period
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measured.
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You can get the DSO of your company from the Executive Summary report
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under Reporting (check the KPI average debtors days).
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.. image:: ./media/followup07.png
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:align: center
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.. seealso::
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* :doc:`recording`
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* :doc:`check`
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.. tip::
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If you would like to get a reminder before the actual due date,
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set a negative number of due days.
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