Orchid Systems Inter-Entity Transactions automatically generates offsetting entries in each company based on highly configurable rules.
- Facilitates the management of allocations and transfers between related entities (branches, divisions, departments, funds, projects, trusts, companies)
- Helps any organization with loan accounts that should mirror each other to reflect inter-entity transaction processing requirements
- Particularly well suited to non-profit organizations with Fund Accounting requirements
- Inter-Entity Transactions will work on all GL transactions regardless of whether they originated from the GL, any subsidiary ledger, a 3rd party module, or an external system that has created GL batches.
- Entities can be within one or across multiple Sage 300 databases.
- Extensive audit trail to ensure entities remain in balance
Inter-Entity Transactions Features
Automate Loan Account Entries
Single database Edition
- Works within one Sage 300 database
- Entities are defined by one or more segment values in the GL chart of accounts
- Due-to & due-from transactions generated automatically
- Works on all General Ledger transactions, regardless of their origin
- User definable routes
- Complex routes across multiple entities when there are no direct inter-entity account relationships between the transacting entities
- Balance transactions at the segment level (rather than just the Account level) for one or more segments
- “Auto Reverse” inter-entity entries bound for other companies
- Supports transactions between entities with different functional currencies
Additional Features in Multi-Databases Edition
Includes all Loan Account automation features in Single database edition plus:
- Works within one and across Sage 300 databases
- Loan Account Balance enquiry and report showing matching loan accounts across multiple databases
- Consolidated AR Aged Trial Balance across multiple databases
- Consolidated AP Aged Trial Balance across multiple databases
Configuration options:
- Optionally post transactions based on date rather than fiscal period, to support entities with different Period and Year Ends
- Optionally set GL Accounts and GL Transactional Optional Fields to be auto-created in target databases
- Optionally set batches in target databases to auto-post
- Generate batches for import into remote “offline” company databases
Advanced Configuration Options
- Automatically trigger additional transactions (GL, AR and AP) to automate complex inter-entity transactions
- Use wildcards to simplify trigger account setup
- Account Substitution to reduce the need to replicate accounts in multiple entities
- Configure AP and AR charges to accumulate, allowing for periodic on-charges
- Supports standard Sage 300 functionality, e.g. GL Auto-Allocation and GL Reversing Entries
- Developed in the Sage 300 SDK, providing the familiar Sage 300 look and feel
- Standard Sage 300 security, customization capabilities, import/export, data integrity checking
Cash Management
Included in Inter-Entity Multi database Edition
- Allocate payments or receipts for invoices in one company, using a bank account in another company
- Transfer invoices from one company to another for consolidated processing
- Process bank transfers between companies
Cash Management: AP Payments
- Process a payment against a vendor in one company and have the payment come out of a bank account in another company
- Process an AP payment out of a bank account in one company and allocate it against AP transactions that originated in other companies
- Allocate a miscellaneous payment to GL accounts in one or more companies, while drawing the funds from a bank account in another company
- Combined AP trial balance across multiple companies
Cash Management: AR Receipts
- Allocate a receipt to a customer in one company and have the receipt go into a bank account in another company
- Bank an AR receipt into a bank account in one company and allocate it against AR transactions that originated in other companies
- Allocate a miscellaneous receipt to GL accounts in one or more companies, while receipting the funds into a bank account in another company
- Combined AR trial balance across multiple companies
Minimum Requirements
- Inter-Entity Transactions 2020 requires Sage 300 2020 System Manager and General Ledger
- Cash Management and multi-database features require the Multi Database edition of Inter-Entity Transactions