How do the flows of bill-completes and credit card authorization merge?
One benefit of all versions of Approval Link is the ability to merge the flow of processing batch bill-completes and credit card authorizations. To do so, you will use a combination of the (TR-B) Bill Complete option and the (TR-P) Credit Card Service Capture and Invoicing of Prepay Orders option in the Standard Order Entry Reports. As you may know, Bill Complete lets you delay a customer’s invoice from automatically flowing to accounts receivable until the order ships. In the Customer Order Entry tab, the Hold Invoices box indicates whether you’ve set up the customer for “C” Bill Complete or “S” Bill/Ship Complete. After the order ships, running the (TR-B) Bill Complete function releases the bill complete invoices to A/R and moves credit card orders to a status 8 or 9. When you execute the (TR-P) Credit Card Service Capture and Invoicing of Prepay Orders, the uninvoiced credit card orders are transmitted to your credit card authorization service, set to a status B Invoice, and release
