Day End Processing
When you post Order Entry transactions, the program immediately:
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Updates item quantities in Sage ERP Accpac Inventory Control.
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Adds any prepayments to an Accounts Receivable receipt batch.
Additional Tasks During Posting or Day End Processing
Costing options specified in Inventory Control determine whether the following additional tasks take place in "real time" (during posting) or during Day End Processing:
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Update of item costs in Inventory Control.
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Creation of audit records or general ledger transactions.
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Update of sales statistics and customer accounts in Accounts Receivable.
Warning! The time required to complete day-end processing varies according to your computer and the number of transactions you entered since the last time you ran Day End Processing. We recommend that you run Day End Processing overnight, or when you do not need to use your computer for other tasks.
If You Cost Items During Day End Processing . . .
If Inventory Control uses the options Cost Items During Day End Processing or Create Subledger Transactions And Audit Info During Day End Processing, you must run Day End Processing in Inventory Control to finish updating Order Entry, General Ledger, Inventory Control, and Accounts Receivable.
To keep your audit trail and reports up to date, you should run Day End Processing as part of your daily routine.
You can run Day End Processing as many times a day as you want. Day End Processing processes all transactions posted since the last time you ran Day End Processing.
Locked Fiscal Periods
Note that if a fiscal period is locked for General Ledger but not for Order Entry, you can create batches for General Ledger during posting, during Day End Processing, or using the Create G/L Batch icon (depending on Order Entry's G/L Integration settings). When you try to post transactions to a locked period in General Ledger, however, the transactions will be placed in an error batch. You can avoid this situation if you create and post General Ledger batches for outstanding Order Entry transactions before locking the period for General Ledger.
Similarly, you can create transactions for Accounts Receivable from Order Entry transactions, but you cannot post them to a period that is locked for Accounts Receivable.
See also
After running Day End Processing