Has a student decided not to attend your school this fall or have a credit from last school year that needs to be returned? Whatever the reason, you can add the refund to the record and even print the check if you have Accounts Payable. If you have AP, the first thing you need to do is ensure your AP...

Duplicate query results is extremely frustrating, but are they really duplicates ? When a record appears more than once, it could be that the record meets the query criteria multiple times or the output includes one or more one-to-many fields . The good new is, when you use the query as a filter in reports...

I wanted to share a great reconciliation tip with you guys. In Student Billing 7, all credits and payments need to be applied to charges to ensure statements are correct. So the question is how can you tell if there's activity that needs to be applied? The first thing you need to do is create a record...

No I'm sorry to say I don't have an answer to the gas price crisis, but I do have good news about city names. Do you have slightly different ways of spelling the same city in your database such as North Pleasantville, N Pleasantville, and N . Pleasantville? Have you steamed "it's all...

There are a few posts on The Ledger blog highlighting some cool new features with the release of version 7.77 due out in Quarter 4. Check them out: Organize Queries City Lookup Field Strong Passwords Looking for other Student Billing stuff? Click the Student Billing tag in The Ledger blog . Talk to you...

Each month we keep track of the top Student Billing questions you ask. Here are the Student Billing questions you asked in July and June. July How to reconcile subsidiary ledgers to the General Ledger: BB3358 How to generate transactions automatically: BB203516 How to void a posted payment: BB113811...

How would you like to ensure credits generated from Financial Aid schedules can only apply to tuition or specific charges? Beginning in version 7.75, you can set application restrictions to control the application of advance deposit credits and financial aid credits. Follow these steps to restrict applications...

I wanted to share with you a little known, and extremely under utilized, feature in Student Billing that can save you hours of charge and payment data entry time. It's called Fast! . Using Fast! allows you to quickly enter a large number of charges or payments at one time using a customized datasheet...

Here's a possible scenario: You just finished running statements and realized that there are charges on the wrong records. Now what? Well, I am glad to let you know that there is an easy fix for whatever your incorrect charge or credit scenario. All you need to do is delete the charge from the incorrect...

I had such a fun time writing my first top 5 for my (borderline freakish) love of the F1 key, I decided to create a special edition focused only on Student Billing . We all know billing students can become complicated and stressful with deadlines, complicated fee setups, and (most importantly) trying...