On the Expenses screen, you can enter all the expenses that have occurred while servicing your vending business, for example, fuel, rent, repairs, advertising, salaries, etc.
Expenses functionality manages all additional payments besides purchasing goods to load up the machines and commissions and taxes.
The costs of purchasing goods have to be entered in the section Purchases.
The system automatically calculates payments on commissions and taxes if you define them properly. Read more about commissions and taxes.
You can group your expenses into categories. The system has some predefined expense categories and allows you to add your own.
Expenses participate in the following reports:
Cash Flow report
Profit Loss
Expenses by Location
Expenses Grid
Date: the date expense happened
Category: expense category
Amount: amount spent
Payee: payment receiver
Location: location name if the expense is connected to a specific location
Machine: machine name if the expense is connected to a particular machine
Description: a free-text description of the payment
Create Expense
Use the Create Expense button to open the Create Expense screen:
Category (Required): select an Expense category from the list of predefined records. You also can create your category by clicking on the add button.
Date (Required): date of the expense.
Amount (Required): the amount of expense.
Description (Optional): Some free-text description.
Payee (Optional): the recipient of the payment, free text.
Assign to Location (Optional): you can assign an expense to a specific location. Check the box and select a location from the list. You can use the report Expenses by Location to get a better view of a location's expenses.
Attachment (Optional): if you want, you can attach a scanned document related to the expense document: invoice, receipt, etc.