Adding a New Batch

Sage 300 ERP

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Adding a New Batch

Sage 300 ERP General Ledger is a batch‐oriented accounting system. You group financial transactions together and enter them in batches before you post them to general ledger accounts. You use the G/L Journal Entry screen to add batches directly into General Ledger.

Before you start

Define the following information for your Sage 300 ERP system:

Fiscal period dates and statuses (using the Fiscal Calendar screen in Common Services).
Source codes for General Ledger transactions.
Optional transaction fields, if you plan to use them.
The chart of accounts.
Currency codes, rates, and rate types (if you have a multicurrency General Ledger).

Important! When creating a new batch, you must use the batch number assigned by the system.

To add a new batch, follow one of these procedures:

Open General Ledger > G/L Transactions > Journal Entry.
Click the New $image\ebx_795744275.gif$ button beside the Batch field.
Enter a description for the batch.

Open General Ledger > G/L Transactions > Batch List.
Click the New button.
When the Journal Entry screen appears, enter a batch description.

Note: You do not click the New $image\ebx_795744275.gif$ button in the Journal Entry screen because a new batch has already been created.

After creating a new batch

Add journal entries.
Print a batch listing.
Set the batch Ready to Post (using the Batch List screen).
Post the batch.