Sales

Sales is the process of selling goods and services and collecting the money for them. In TamilAccounting it runs as a chain of linked documents, each one carrying its data forward, so nothing is re-keyed and every step can be traced back to the one before it.

The sales chain

Value and stock only start moving at step 3. Quotations and orders are commitments, not accounting events — which is why you can edit them freely, and why a delivery cannot simply be edited away once it has posted.

You do not have to start at the beginning

Enter the chain wherever the sale actually starts. The system creates the missing documents behind the scenes so the trail stays complete.

Where to look

• Sales Overview — revenue, receivables and overdue at a glance
• Quotations, Orders, Deliveries, Invoices, Credit Notes, Payments — one list per document type
• Allocations — money received but not yet applied

Set up first

Moving in from other software

To bring historical sales across in bulk, use Import Sales transaction. It creates the invoices, orders and deliveries together from one spreadsheet.