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Track and classify your transactions by category.
Departments
Track activity by location.
Locations
Sort transactions in any way you find helpful. This adds a link to Classes on your Lists page.
Classes
Track projects for customers. A project is a subrecord of a customer record that shows costs and revenues for a particular project.
Projects
Track additional information about projects and keep them separate from customers.
Project Management
Track projects by creating a fixed project plan. Project plans are not adjusted when work is tracked outside the original fixed plan.
Planned Work
Calculate costs for project labor and account for those costs in your general ledger, and create project specific cost and billing budgets.
Job Costing and Project Budgeting
Create a customized project profitability report based on accounts and items instead of transactions.
Advanced Project Profitability
Use activity codes to classify transactions across projects and customers when using Advanced Project Budgets.
Activity Codes
enables businesses to create a custom hierarchical structure for tracking project expenses and costs.
Advanced Project Budgets
Define various units used to stock, purchase, and sell inventory items, and track non-monetary accounts. The Statistical Accounts feature must be enabled. (Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features. On the Accounting subtab, Statistical Accounts is listed under Advanced Features.)
Multiple Units of Measure
Make it mandatory for users to provide a reason for deleting transaction records. All transactions listed at Setup > Company > Auto-Generated Numbers on the Transaction Numbers subtab are affected by this feature.
This feature can be disabled after use.
In some countries providing a reason why a transaction was deleted is a legal requirement.
Use Deletion Reason
In NetSuite OneWorld, assign one primary subsidiary and multiple secondary subsidiaries to a customer or subcustomer record. (Go to Lists > Relationships > Customers > New.) When you select one of these on a transaction, you can associate the transaction with any subsidiary assigned to the customer.
may be enabled to allow creation of customer records across subsidiaries.
Multi-Subsidiary Customer
feature enables you to set up flexible document and transaction numbering that reflect the requirements of the countries you do business in. With this feature, you can create multiple complex numbering sequences per transaction type, fiscal year, and other selected criteria. automatically updates your document or transaction number sequence, for example, when a new fiscal year begins, or you create different types of transactions.
The generated numbers use prefixes and suffixes that you set in each rule. You can also prioritize advanced numbering rules to run under different circumstances. NetSuite generates the number when you save the transaction
Advanced Numbering
Allocate resources to projects, view and manage resource allocations, and monitor utilization rates.
Resource Allocations
Check this box to do the following:
* Allow users to choose the language of the NetSuite user interface. See Choosing a Language for Your NetSuite User Interface.
* Allow customers to see item names, descriptions, and expense categories in the language selected on the customer’s record on printed transaction forms.
* Allow translation of website elements to display in each visitor’s language. These elements include website items, saved searches, tabs, categories, email forms, text, and images, and formatted website text.
Note that only the system-supported languages available as user preferences are supported for printed transaction forms. Additional languages are supported for website translations.
At Setup > Company > General Preferences, you need to specify the languages for which you want to provide translation strings for items on printed transaction forms and/or your website. See Configuring Multiple Languages. After you have specified a language in General Preferences, you can translate item names and descriptions on item records or by going to Lists > Mass Update > Bulk Update Translation.
Multi-Language
Use foreign currencies for sales and purchase transactions and account for the fluctuations in exchange rates. This feature enables the creation of sales transactions in multiple currencies for individual customers and to track open balances in each transaction currency. This feature also enables you to enter purchase transactions in multiple currencies for individual vendors, and keep track of open balances in each transaction currency. When you create a vendor record, you set a primary currency and additional currencies available for transactions with that vendor.
Multiple Currencies
Automatically update currency exchange rates by the specified provider one time each day.
Agree to the Notice, as required. NetSuite stores the user ID and time and date stamp of account changes in system notes.
Click Forex Data provider to go to its website.
Currency Exchange Rate Integration
Store multiple currency exchange rates for a currency pair and date. Unless you enable this feature, you can have only one exchange rate for each currency pair and date combination
Currency Exchange Rate Types
Enable international and national phone number formatting for this role.
Worldwide Support for Phone Number Formatting
Edit records directly from their corresponding lists and from search results.
Inline Editing
Enable the ability to upload or link to documents and images, and then associate them with records your customers, vendors, and employees can view.
File Cabinet
Check this box to have expense file attachments automatically submit to a dedicated employee expenses folder, predefined by the system.
Enhanced File Security –Employee Expense Report Folders
Have NetSuite to compare customer and contact records and notify you of possible duplicates.
Duplicate Detection & Merge
Create access rules for employees based on the IP address of the computer used to log in.
IP Address Rules
Gives a role access to a functionality that is currently only accessible to the standard Administrator role.
Core Administration Permission
Enable users to receive push notifications on mobile devices.
Mobile Push Notification
Use NetSuite for your business’s accounting.
Accounting
Maintain accounts receivables records and track invoices, receipts, cash sales, payments, and customer records.
A/R (Accounts Receivable)
Maintain accounts payable records and track purchases, bills, vendors, and payee records.
A/P (Accounts Payable)
Group transactions as they occur during periods of time, and to allow management of financials by these defined time periods.
Accounting Periods
Apply gapless numbering sequences to all general ledger posting transactions. Gapless numbering sequences enables companies to meet international auditing requirements.
GL Audit Numbering
Account for fixed expenses without splitting them among individual departments, classes or locations in advance of incurring the expenses.
Expense Allocation
Dynamically calculate the weight of any statistical allocation, based on the balance of the statistical account through statistical journals, at the time the allocation journal is generated.
This feature also enables you to run multiple dynamic allocation schedules in a specific sequence, or batch.
Dynamic Allocation
This feature supports the use of revenue arrangements and plans to automate revenue deferral, recognition, reclassification, forecasting, and auditing. It is compliant with the ASC 606 revenue standard.
Advanced Revenue Management (Essentials)
This feature adds flexibility to Advanced Revenue Management (Essentials) by enabling you to define recognition attributes for revenue elements based on specified criteria. As a result, the same item can have different attribute values in different revenue elements.
Rule-Based Recognition Treatment
Create multiple budgets for the same combination of customer, item, class, location or department criteria.
Multiple Budgets
Allow intercompany time entries and expense transactions, and the transfer of time and/or expense charges from one subsidiary to another in a OneWorld account.
Intercompany Time and Expense
Create intercompany sales orders from intercompany purchase orders, reconcile intercompany transactions, and generate intercompany elimination journal entries automatically using the Period Close Checklist.
Automated Intercompany Management
Enable the cross-subsidiary order and fulfillment process for external orders.
Automated Intercompany Drop Ship
Enable this feature to define criteria for intercompany business workflows.
Intercompany Framework
Enable this feature to apply payments, credits, and deposits either through the top-level customer or through individual subcustomers and to print consolidated customer statements.
Consolidated Payments
Use this feature to match and clear in-transit vendor payments.
Match and submit transactions for reconciliation on the Match Bank Data page. When you submit the matched in-transit transactions for reconciliation, NetSuite automatically generates the final-stage (confirmed) payments for the match and clears them. Reconcile the payments on the Reconcile Account Statement page.
In-Transit Payments
Enable this feature to record and track deposit amounts paid to vendors before they accept a purchase order for a good or service.
You can apply these prepayment amounts against open bills for the vendor. You can record and track multiple prepayments and prepayment applications for your vendors.
Vendor Prepayments
Use this feature to create different accounting period and tax period rollups for your subsidiaries. Create fiscal calendars to define accounting and tax period rollups.
Multiple Calendars
Track non-monetary data and then use this information on reports and income statements to view its relationship with the financial activity of your organization.
If you check the Dynamic Allocation box, located under Advanced Features, you can run any allocation schedule weighted by the balance of a statistical account.
Statistical Accounts
Enable this feature to define posting rules that specify the accounts to which foreign currency variances post.
Foreign Currency Variance Mapping
Enable this feature to balance transactions by segment through a process that creates balancing journals.
Balancing Segments
Enable this feature to create installments for customers who pay for items over time using installment-based payments.
Installments
Enable this feature to process and post subsidiary consolidation and income statement closing using a transaction type called Period End Journal. Period end journals are generated automatically when you complete the Create Period End Journals task on the Period Close Checklist.
Period End Journal Entries
Amortize revenue from your sales.
Revenue Recognition
Enable recognition of revenue prior to billing customers. These appear and behave like invoices; both cause revenue recognition, based on sales orders and returns. However, an invoice creates a customer liability, whereas a this does not trigger an invoice and customer liability.
Revenue Commitments
Defer revenue on products with multiple elements using Vendor Specific Objective Evidence (VSOE) capabilities. VSOE revenue recognition includes support for the residual method, SOP 98-9, as well as SOP 97-2.
VSOE
Forecast revenue based on sales order amounts and return authorization amounts. A revenue forecast gives a more complete picture using sales orders because it includes all orders whether they are billed, unbilled, or use multiple invoices.
Sales Order Revenue Forecasting
Allocate an expense across a range of time and then recognize the expense in increments, only as goods or services are used. For example, defer a prepaid expense such as insurance and amortize the proper amount over the period the insurance is in effect.
Amortization
This feature allows you to post book-specific adjustments to a secondary, adjustment-only book at closing. They serve as a light version of multi-book accounting, but you do not need the Full Multi-Book Accounting feature to use them.
Adjustment Only Books
use multiple accounting books to manage your business.
Multi-Book Accounting
Check this box to allow different account values to be used across accounting books.
Chart of Accounts Mapping
Check this box to manage foreign currency transactions automatically across accounting books.
Foreign Currency Management
Check this box to use independent closure of accounting periods by accounting book.
Revenue and Expense Management
This feature enables you to use tax schedules to track taxes for each nexus in which your company is required to pay taxes.
Advanced Taxes
Check this box if your company is registered for the EU One Stop Shop (OSS) VAT scheme. The OSS feature in NetSuite enables you to charge the appropriate tax on B2C sales of digital services based on the VAT rate of the customer’s EU member state.
EU One Stop Shop
Check this box to define different tax engines for different tax jurisdictions and visualize tax details on each transaction.
SuiteTax
Provide estimates to your customers and then convert them into invoices.
Estimates
Track customer orders and then convert them into invoices.
Sales Orders
Use return authorization numbers to track approved returns.
Return Authorizations
Issue purchase orders, receive against those orders and create bills from those receipts.
Purchase Orders
Use return authorization numbers to track items you return to vendors.
Vendor Return Authorizations
Send a request to one or more vendors asking them to provide specifics about their pricing, terms and conditions in regard to a purchase contract for a product they sell.
Request for Quote
Use these transactions to initiate the purchasing process when an employee or company representative needs something that must be purchased using company funds. The person requesting the purchase (requestor) specifies which items, services or expenses they need a buyer to purchase. Buyers can then use requisitions to create the purchase orders necessary to fulfill the requisition requests.
Requisitions
Allows purchasing managers and buyers to use contracted terms, pricing, and delivery schedules when purchasing materials for a company.
For example, instead of having terms and pricing based only on a specific purchase order being placed, buyers can automatically take advantage of quantity-based terms and discounts based on an annual volume of goods or services purchased.
Purchase Contracts
Improve buyer efficiency and accuracy and potentially reduce procurement spending. These define a pre-determined price for a set quantity of items you will buy from a vendor during a time period. They specify the item, price, quantity, terms and effective time period.
Blanket Purchase Orders
Set at least four different price levels for each item.
Multiple Prices
lets you automatically apply different sales prices to items that depend on the quantity being sold. This enables you to offer discounts to customers who buy in bulk.
Quantity Pricing
Enable Gross Profit estimates and track gross profits at the item and transaction level.
(Gross Profit = Sales – Costs)
Gross profit estimates are based on a complex interaction of prices, discounts, costs, and ultimately gross profits at several levels.
Gross profit estimates supply decision-making information to sales teams and executives throughout the sales process, from the opportunity stage early in the sales cycle on through to the issuance of an invoice.
Gross Profit
Calculate alternate sales amounts on sales orders, estimates, opportunities, and return authorizations.
Alternate sales amounts can be used to calculate commission and sales forecasts and can be used to measure quotas.
Alternate Sales Amount
Create codes that can be used to associate customers and sales with partners and track campaign return on investment.
If you associate a discount item with a promotion code, the code can be used as a coupon code for any item or for specific items that you select when creating the code.
Promotion Codes
Leverage some of NetSuite’s multiple (stacked) promotions capabilities on your SuiteCommerce Advanced Site.
SuitePromotions
Automatically apply multiple promotions to a transaction.
Auto-Apply Promotions
Require a customer deposit on sales orders. You can specify a percentage or an amount.
Required Deposit Workflow
Gives your fulfillment manager the configuration tools to automatically set fulfillment locations on sales order lines.
Automatic Location Assignment
Fulfill and bill your sales orders in separate steps.
Advanced Shipping
FURTHER REFINES THE SHIPPING PROCESS TO ALLOW YOU TO TRACK SEPARATE STAGES FOR PICKING, PACKING, AND SHIPPING ORDERS.
Pick, Pack and Ship
Use fulfillment requests in your item fulfillment or store pickup fulfillment workflows.
Fulfillment Request
Give your Fulfillment Manager the configuration tools to allow Store Pickup
Store Pickup
Integrate your UPS or FedEx account with NetSuite, allowing you to receive tracking numbers and print bar code shipping labels.
Shipping Label Integration
GIVES YOUR RECEIVING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENTS SEPARATE PROCESSES FOR RECEIVING AND BILLING PURCHASE ORDERS.
Advanced Receiving
Enables shipment to several different addresses and use of different shipping methods on the same transaction.
Multiple Shipping Routes
Provides tracking and management of incoming shipments.
Inbound Shipment Management
Purchase goods and services and sell them directly to your customers.
Bill Costs to Customers
Create billing schedules to invoice sales over a range of time or a contract term, such as a one-year membership billed monthly. Billing schedules manage the billing process to track when to invoice customers and how much to bill.
Advanced Billing
With this feature you can create billable charges for projects. Charges are calculated according to charge rules. These charge rules can be based on fixed dates, project progress, milestones, or on time entries.
Charged-based Billing
Create and manage bill runs, bill run schedules, and billing groups.
Billing Operations
Group invoices for your customers, so that you have greater flexibility in meeting your customer’s expectations for how and when they receive invoices by combining multiple invoices into one invoice group.
Invoice Groups
Accept credit card payments.
Credit Card Payments
If you sell products under varying brand or company names, check this box to create a list of the names used and associate those descriptors with the items you sell under each name.
When customers receive credit card statements, the descriptor associated with the item purchased is shown.
Credit Card Soft Descriptors
With the Purchase Card Data module, NetSuite identifies when payments are made with a purchase card so you can take advantage of potential lower card processing fees.
Purchase cards, also called Level II and Level III cards, can bring cost savings to you, the merchant, and to your customers.
When you enter a credit card payment for a customer, NetSuite determines, based on the card’s bank identification number (BIN), whether or not it is a purchase card. It then passes the extended transaction data along with the payment authorization request for processing.
Send Purchase Card Data
Allow customers to pay with PayPal. This enables you to set up PayPal as a payment method. Customers are taken to the PayPal site for checkout, and payment is deposited into your PayPal account.
PayPal Integration
Allow customers to pay electronically.
Electronic Funds Transfer
Allow customers to automatically pay bills online as they are entered.
Online Bill Pay