This feature enables you to manage the budgets of customers in your system. Remember, in mSupply customers are names to which you supply goods. To enable the feature you need to turn it on and then set preferences for its use and allocate budgets to your customers. When using it, you see extra fields on a customer invoice which tell you how much budget the customer has been allocated and the amount you have remaining. Once a customer has reached their budget limit a customer invoice cannot be confirmed unless it is first authorised. All the details you need are below.
Note that any unused amounts of part-period budgets roll over to the next part-period. Full period budget amounts do not roll over to the next period.
If you have a lot of customers to setup budgets for, you might like to import them instead. See the 17.06. Importing customer budgets page for details on that.
This is where you see the customer budgets feature doing its job; when you're distributing goods to a customer:
There are several reports that provide various information on customer budgets, they are:
Note that this is a cumulative report, so the graphs generated need to include the entire budget period. This means that the date range is only used to determine which budget periods intersect with the selected dates e.g. if the date range covers more than one budget period, a graph will be generated for each one.
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