End Period
The End Period job performs end-of-period processing for all customers.
This can be used in place of the manual End Period process in Reporting - Debtors.
It should be run prior to sending statements using Send All in Reporting - Debtors.
End-of-period processing occurs for the last day of the month prior to the job being run. It includes:
- the addition of accounting fees, if a customer has overdue balances that incur a fee; and
- the creation of Closing and Opening Balances
End-of-period processing only occurs if:
- there are Completed charges to be Finalised and Finalise Completed Charges is selected; or
- there is a non-zero balance; or
- there is a zero balance but there has been account activity since the last opening balance
The fields are as follows:
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The job name. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The job description. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Schedules the job to run if checked, or prevents it from being run if unchecked. |
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If selected, any charge that has Completed status will be automatically set to Finalised. If unselected, any charges that aren't Finalised won't be included in the closing balance. |
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These determine when the job is run. These are a defined using a simplified version of a Cron expression:
Note that only one of Day Of Month and Day Of Week may be specified. If one is specified, the other must be set to ? |
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The field specifies the user to run the job as. This user is required to establish the permissions to:
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The field specifies the user or user group to notify when the job has completed. |
Examples
| Description | Minutes | Hours | Day Of Month | Month | Day Of Week |
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| Run at 2 AM on the first day of the month, every month | 0 | 2 | 1 | * | ? |
