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Sales orders

Best Practices — The handful of BigLedger habits that stop the expensive mistakes
Can I invoice part of an order and leave the rest open? Partial delivery workflow — One order, several shipments: invoicing part of a sales order, keeping the balance open, tracking what is still owed to the customer, and closing the…
Can This Customer Take More Goods? Deciding on Credit — A customer near their credit limit has sent another order. How to work out what they really owe the group, why the available-credit figures BigLedger…
Cash Sales Workflow — Serving a walk-in customer at the counter
Creating a Sales Order — Raise a sales order in BigLedger from a customer’s request
Credit Sales Workflow — Selling on payment terms to business customers
Daily Tasks — The routine work — sales orders, deliveries, payments, purchasing and pricing — and which document in each chain is the one that actually counts
Do I have to raise a sales order before I can invoice? Standard sales workflow — The complete order-to-cash path: quote a customer, take the order and a deposit, get the goods picked, invoice, and collect the balance
How do I get a customer’s payment onto the right invoice? Recording a customer payment — Take money from a customer and get it onto the right invoice
How do I give members, retail and wholesale different prices for the same item? Setting up pricing schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale
How do I take goods back — refund, credit note or exchange? Returns and exchanges workflow — Taking goods back without wrecking your stock records
Installation Scheduling Workflow — Getting sold goods to the customer’s door and installed
Instalment Sales Workflow — Recording a sale the customer pays for over time
Processing a Delivery Order — Raise a delivery order from a sales order, send its lines to the Pick Pack Queue, turn them into a delivery job, and understand what it does
Reports & Analytics — Which BigLedger report answers which question
Sales Operations Overview — The shape of a sales day in BigLedger
Sales Workflow Guides — How a sale is recorded in BigLedger, from the counter to the corporate invoice
Setting Up a Price Book — Build a price book that actually changes the price on a sales line
The order still shows a quantity outstanding after I invoiced it all — You invoiced the whole sales order and the KO For tab, or the order listing, still shows a balance to come
Which price wins when an item is in more than one rule? Designing pricing rules — Build price sets that behave the way you intended

General ledger and journals

Accounting Guides — Setup your chart of accounts, manage daily journal entries, reconcile bank statements, and generate financial reports
Best Practices — The handful of BigLedger habits that stop the expensive mistakes
Can I set a credit limit that actually stops an order? Credit limits and payment terms — Build the payment terms and credit limits your business actually uses, attach them to customers and suppliers, and know exactly which parts of BigLedger act…
Chart of Accounts Setup Guide — Set up your chart of accounts in BigLedger so your first sales invoice posts cleanly and your trial balance balances to the cent
Documents, drafts and posting — Saving is not finalising, finalising is not posting, and a document can be Final with no journal behind it. What each step does, and the screen that tells…
Financial Reporting Guide — Close the month, generate a balanced Trial Balance, Profit and Loss, and Balance Sheet, and export everything to Excel for your external accountant
How do I reconcile a bank statement? Bank reconciliation guide — Match your March bank statement to BigLedger, find the variance, post the fix, and save the audit pack in about 30 minutes
I posted a journal to the wrong account. How do I correct it? Journal entries guide — Post a balanced manual journal, clone a recurring one, and correct or remove a mistake so your month-end ledger lands clean
I voided the document and the report still shows it: what a void undoes — You voided the document and the report still shows it. That is usually correct, and this page says why. A void is not a delete and not a rewind
Month-End Closing Process — The order to close a month in BigLedger
Opening Balance Migration Guide — Step-by-step guide for importing opening balances (Stock, AR, AP, Cashbook, and Ledger) into BigLedger ERP
Reviewing a Set of Books Kept in BigLedger — For the auditor, the tax agent, the company secretary and the finance manager preparing for them
The Trial Balance doesn’t agree with the ledger — You drill into an account, total the journal lines, and get a different figure from the one on the Trial Balance or Balance Sheet
Two reports over the same period give different totals. Which is right? When two numbers don’t tally — Two figures that should agree, don’t. Find the symptom that sounds like yours
Who May Change the Books — Separating duties in a finance team that keeps its books in BigLedger

Purchasing

A supplier sent us an e-invoice. What do we do with it? Incoming supplier e-invoices — What BigLedger does and does not do with the e-invoices your suppliers issue to you
Best Practices — The handful of BigLedger habits that stop the expensive mistakes
Buying and receiving — Which purchasing document books the stock and the liability, receiving without an order, invoice-first, foreign currency, consignment, and automatic…
Can I receive goods without a purchase order? Direct GRN workflow — Receive goods that arrived without a purchase order — record them, bill them, and keep the audit trail intact when the paperwork came after the pallet
Creating a Purchase Order — Raise a purchase order in BigLedger — header, supplier, lines, tax and delivery — finalise it, send it, and keep track of what is still outstanding
Daily Tasks — The routine work — sales orders, deliveries, payments, purchasing and pricing — and which document in each chain is the one that actually counts
Direct Invoice Workflow — Book a supplier bill with no purchase order and nothing to receive
Document Approvals — Turn on optional sign-off for purchase requisitions, purchase orders and stock requisitions — who approves, in what order, and what happens when they do
Goods Received Note Processing — Receive a delivery against a purchase order, count it honestly, capture serial and batch details, and finalise the GRN
How does consignment stock work when I don’t own it until it sells? Consignment purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back
Purchase Invoice Processing — Book a supplier’s bill against the order and the receipt, check it before you commit, and finalise it
Purchasing Guides — How to buy in BigLedger — the standard order-to-payment run, receiving without an order, spend with nothing to receive, paying before the goods arrive, and…
Purchasing Overview — The shape of purchasing in BigLedger — which of the five receipt paths your company uses, who does what in which order, and where each task actually lives
The supplier invoiced before delivering. Which document comes first? Invoice-first workflow — When the supplier’s invoice — or a demand for a deposit — arrives before the goods
What is the difference between a goods received note and a purchase invoice? Standard procurement workflow — Order from a supplier, receive the goods, book the bill and pay it

E-Invoice and PEPPOL

A supplier sent us an e-invoice. What do we do with it? Incoming supplier e-invoices — What BigLedger does and does not do with the e-invoices your suppliers issue to you
E-Invoice & PEPPOL Guides — Set up MyInvois and PEPPOL, run the monthly e-invoice cycle, fix validation rejections, and cancel or correct an e-invoice LHDN has already validated
E-Invoice Pools & Submission Routing — How the system decides whether a document becomes an individual or consolidated e-invoice, what the Batch, Individual and Single General pools are for, and…
E-Invoice and MyInvois — Submission that looks stuck but is queued, rejections and what they mean, consolidated invoices for counter sales, the 72-hour cancellation window, and the…
How do I set MyInvois up in the first place? MyInvois setup guide — Get your company ready to submit e-invoices to LHDN through BigLedger
I finalised the invoice and nothing was submitted to LHDN: understanding e-invoice statuses — What In Queue, Submitted, Valid and Invalid actually mean, why an e-invoice that has not moved shows no error message, how long each stage normally takes,…
I submitted a wrong invoice and LHDN has already validated it. Can I cancel? Cancelling and correcting a validated e-invoice — What to do when an e-invoice LHDN has already validated turns out to be wrong
LHDN rejected it. Where do I find out why? E-invoice validation rules & troubleshooting — Why LHDN rejects an e-invoice and how to fix it
Maintaining the Item Master — Keep the commercial side of an item right
Malaysian Requirements — SST, LHDN e-Invoice and Peppol in plain English — what BigLedger does for you, what stays your responsibility, and where the authoritative answer lives
Peppol Configuration Guide — Deliver invoices and credit notes straight into a trading partner’s system over the Peppol network
What Malaysia Requires: E-Invoicing Explained — The background to Malaysian e-invoicing
What am I supposed to do between the 1st and the 7th? The month-end e-invoice cycle — How to close a month of e-invoicing
Which LHDN guideline version does this wiki follow? The versions this wiki cites — The exact version and publication date of the two LHDN e-Invoice guidelines every ‘what the rules require’ note on this wiki was checked against, where each…

Stock on hand

Choosing an Item Type — The one field on a new item you cannot change afterwards
Closing the Month on Stock — For the stock controller and the accountant closing a month
Counting Stock and Deciding What a Difference Means — For the stock controller and the branch storekeeper
Document Approvals — Turn on optional sign-off for purchase requisitions, purchase orders and stock requisitions — who approves, in what order, and what happens when they do
How do I move stock between branches? Stock transfer procedures — Move stock from one branch to another in BigLedger’s two-step transfer — and understand the queue in the middle, which is where transfers go wrong
How does consignment stock work when I don’t own it until it sells? Consignment purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back
Inventory Management — Set stock tracking up, move stock between branches, count it, correct it, and read the reports — with the traps that catch people, named
Maintaining Items — Keep your product records right in BigLedger
Reports & Analytics — Which BigLedger report answers which question
Stock Availability shows 50 physical but 0 available. Where did it go? The stock quantity shows zero and there is stock on the shelf — You can see the box on the shelf, the stock report says you have twelve, and the invoice you are keying says zero
Stock Management Guide — Set stock tracking up once, correctly, so your first receipt lands at the right location, shows on the balance and values properly
Stock figures and costing — Why the quantity you can sell is not the quantity you have, where a cost came from, what a back-dated purchase does to last month’s margin, and when…

Master data

Basic Operations — The master data everything else in BigLedger reads — items, their types, and the two records every product has
Can I set a credit limit that actually stops an order? Credit limits and payment terms — Build the payment terms and credit limits your business actually uses, attach them to customers and suppliers, and know exactly which parts of BigLedger act…
Choosing an Item Type — The one field on a new item you cannot change afterwards
Duplicate Customers — Why One Person Appears Three Times — The same person shows up as two customers, a member card and an e-invoice in somebody else’s name. What BigLedger uses to recognise a person across customers, contacts, member cards and e-invoice buyers; what links those records and what never does; what a merge changes (including posted documents) and what it never touches; and how to decide, merge and check
Editing an Item — Change an item that is already in use — what you can alter, what is locked for good, what a change ripples into, and how to retire something safely
How do I give members, retail and wholesale different prices for the same item? Setting up pricing schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale
Maintaining Items — Keep your product records right in BigLedger
Maintaining the Item Master — Keep the commercial side of an item right
Stopping Supply to a Customer Who Is Not Paying — The customer will not pay and you have decided to stop selling to them. How to put them on stop in BigLedger (the blacklist), exactly which documents it…
Technical Concerns — Honest answers about access, security, your data and what happens when the internet goes down — including what we can and cannot tell you
Where do I turn on serial number or batch tracking for an item? Creating an item — Add your first product to BigLedger end to end

Money owed to you

Can I set a credit limit that actually stops an order? Credit limits and payment terms — Build the payment terms and credit limits your business actually uses, attach them to customers and suppliers, and know exactly which parts of BigLedger act…
Can This Customer Take More Goods? Deciding on Credit — A customer near their credit limit has sent another order. How to work out what they really owe the group, why the available-credit figures BigLedger…
Chasing Overdue Accounts — Customers are paying late and nothing in the system seems to notice. How to run a weekly collections list from the ageing, send statements that actually…
Credit Sales Workflow — Selling on payment terms to business customers
How do I get a customer’s payment onto the right invoice? Recording a customer payment — Take money from a customer and get it onto the right invoice
I knocked off the payment and the outstanding balance hasn’t changed — You applied the payment against the invoice and the number you are watching did not move. Most of the time it was never going to
Money in and money out — Getting a payment onto the right invoice, offsetting what you owe against what you are owed, bank charges, credit limits and the bank reconciliation
Stopping Supply to a Customer Who Is Not Paying — The customer will not pay and you have decided to stop selling to them. How to put them on stop in BigLedger (the blacklist), exactly which documents it…
The aging still shows an invoice that’s already paid — You received the money, the invoice itself shows a zero balance, and the aging report still lists it as outstanding. The report is not wrong
The credit note is not in the aging report — You raised a credit note for a customer, and the aging report still shows the invoice at its full value with the credit nowhere on it. Raising a credit note does not apply it
Why can’t I edit this? The field is greyed out. I cannot edit a finalised invoice — The fields have gone grey, there is no message saying why, and a colleague swears they could do this last month. What freezes when a document goes final,…

Users, teams and permissions

Access, branches and companies — Empty launchpads, empty company dropdowns, a colleague who can see what you cannot, and how a group of companies should actually be set up
Administration — Two different jobs share this section — controlling who can do what in BigLedger, and running your loyalty programme’s master data. This page tells them apart
Audit Trail — Find out who changed a document in BigLedger, when, and what it looked like before, from the Audit Trail inside the applet the document lives in, or across…
Can somebody view customers without being able to export the list? Teams and permissions — Set up teams in BigLedger and control who can view, edit and export customer and membership data
Growth and Scaling — What changes when you add a branch, a company, a channel or twenty more people — and which controls BigLedger actually enforces as you grow
Settings and Permissions — Somebody changed a setting and a field vanished
Technical Concerns — Honest answers about access, security, your data and what happens when the internet goes down — including what we can and cannot tell you
Who May Change the Books — Separating duties in a finance team that keeps its books in BigLedger

Point of sale

Balancing the Drawer — Counting a till at the end of a shift, working out what you should have found, and deciding which of four things a difference actually is
Banking the Day’s Takings — Following the cash out of the drawer, into the bank, and onto the bank statement
Cash Sales Workflow — Serving a walk-in customer at the counter
How do I give members, retail and wholesale different prices for the same item? Setting up pricing schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale
Sales That Arrive From Another System — and How to Notice When They Stop — For the accounts person whose sales invoices come in by sync rather than by keyboard
Selling, pricing and the till — Which price wins, what the till does that the sales invoice does not, how returns and exchanges are really recorded, and where the cashier’s payment buttons…
Setting Up a Price Book — Build a price book that actually changes the price on a sales line
Which price wins when an item is in more than one rule? Designing pricing rules — Build price sets that behave the way you intended

Financial reports

Closing the Month on Stock — For the stock controller and the accountant closing a month
Financial Reporting Guide — Close the month, generate a balanced Trial Balance, Profit and Loss, and Balance Sheet, and export everything to Excel for your external accountant
Numbers that do not agree — Two figures that should be the same and are not
Reports & Analytics — Which BigLedger report answers which question
Reviewing a Set of Books Kept in BigLedger — For the auditor, the tax agent, the company secretary and the finance manager preparing for them
The margin report and the profit and loss don’t agree — Your gross profit report has moved since the last time you looked at it, or it has never agreed with the profit and loss. The cost stored on a finalised document line is not final
Where did this figure come from? Which figures BigLedger stores, and which it works out fresh — Some numbers BigLedger works out the moment you open the screen; others were worked out once and written down, and are only redone on purpose. Five subsystems make that trade-off

Membership, points and loyalty

Administration — Two different jobs share this section — controlling who can do what in BigLedger, and running your loyalty programme’s master data. This page tells them apart
Member Classes — Create the tiers of your loyalty programme — and understand why the class, not the label, is what pricing and commission actually read
Member Label Lists — Group your loyalty labels so somebody can find the right one — the small piece of structure that keeps a tagging system usable
Member Labels — Tag loyalty members for your own segmentation — how labels differ from classes, and the one thing labels cannot do
Membership points and vouchers: symptom, cause, fix — Symptom, cause and fix for the membership module, gathered from the applet pages’ own troubleshooting tables and the backend
Registering a Loyalty Member — Add a member to your loyalty programme, put them in the right class and labels, and adjust their points — plus how to load thousands at once

Prices, price books and promotions

Daily Tasks — The routine work — sales orders, deliveries, payments, purchasing and pricing — and which document in each chain is the one that actually counts
How do I give members, retail and wholesale different prices for the same item? Setting up pricing schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale
Member Classes — Create the tiers of your loyalty programme — and understand why the class, not the label, is what pricing and commission actually read
Selling, pricing and the till — Which price wins, what the till does that the sales invoice does not, how returns and exchanges are really recorded, and where the cashier’s payment buttons…
Setting Up a Price Book — Build a price book that actually changes the price on a sales line
Which price wins when an item is in more than one rule? Designing pricing rules — Build price sets that behave the way you intended

Money you owe

Direct Invoice Workflow — Book a supplier bill with no purchase order and nothing to receive
I knocked off the payment and the outstanding balance hasn’t changed — You applied the payment against the invoice and the number you are watching did not move. Most of the time it was never going to
Money in and money out — Getting a payment onto the right invoice, offsetting what you owe against what you are owed, bank charges, credit limits and the bank reconciliation
Purchase Invoice Processing — Book a supplier’s bill against the order and the receipt, check it before you commit, and finalise it
The supplier invoiced before delivering. Which document comes first? Invoice-first workflow — When the supplier’s invoice — or a demand for a deposit — arrives before the goods

Cashbooks, banks and settlement

Banking the Day’s Takings — Following the cash out of the drawer, into the bank, and onto the bank statement
Everything is matched to zero and the bank reconciliation still won’t tally — Every visible line in the bank reconciliation is matched, the unmatched lists are empty, and the header still shows a difference
Instalment Sales Workflow — Recording a sale the customer pays for over time
Money in and money out — Getting a payment onto the right invoice, offsetting what you owe against what you are owed, bank charges, credit limits and the bank reconciliation

E-commerce and marketplaces

Reconciling Marketplace Payouts — For the accounts person who has to explain why a marketplace paid less than you sold. Every cut the platform takes before the money reaches your bank, what…
Running an Online Channel — For the person who runs an online shop on a marketplace or on your own website
Sales That Arrive From Another System — and How to Notice When They Stop — For the accounts person whose sales invoices come in by sync rather than by keyboard
The platform, the API and other systems — Applets and modules, getting data in and out, the REST API, marketplaces and storefronts, and signing in securely

Receiving goods

Buying and receiving — Which purchasing document books the stock and the liability, receiving without an order, invoice-first, foreign currency, consignment, and automatic…
Can I receive goods without a purchase order? Direct GRN workflow — Receive goods that arrived without a purchase order — record them, bill them, and keep the audit trail intact when the paperwork came after the pallet
Closing the Month on Stock — For the stock controller and the accountant closing a month
Goods Received Note Processing — Receive a delivery against a purchase order, count it honestly, capture serial and batch details, and finalise the GRN

Raising an invoice

Sales That Arrive From Another System — and How to Notice When They Stop — For the accounts person whose sales invoices come in by sync rather than by keyboard
Selling, pricing and the till — Which price wins, what the till does that the sales invoice does not, how returns and exchanges are really recorded, and where the cashier’s payment buttons…
The invoice printed the wrong bank account — Your customer has paid into another company’s account, because the invoice told them to. The bank details on a printed invoice are not a BigLedger field at all
Why can’t I edit this? The field is greyed out. I cannot edit a finalised invoice — The fields have gone grey, there is no message saying why, and a colleague swears they could do this last month. What freezes when a document goes final,…

Approvals

Document Approvals — Turn on optional sign-off for purchase requisitions, purchase orders and stock requisitions — who approves, in what order, and what happens when they do
Growth and Scaling — What changes when you add a branch, a company, a channel or twenty more people — and which controls BigLedger actually enforces as you grow
Who May Change the Books — Separating duties in a finance team that keeps its books in BigLedger

Delivery and installation

Installation Scheduling Workflow — Getting sold goods to the customer’s door and installed
Planning Delivery Trips — Turn the day’s deliveries into trips your drivers can run
Processing a Delivery Order — Raise a delivery order from a sales order, send its lines to the Pick Pack Queue, turn them into a delivery job, and understand what it does

Returns, credit notes and warranty

How do I take goods back — refund, credit note or exchange? Returns and exchanges workflow — Taking goods back without wrecking your stock records
Selling, pricing and the till — Which price wins, what the till does that the sales invoice does not, how returns and exchanges are really recorded, and where the cashier’s payment buttons…
The credit note is not in the aging report — You raised a credit note for a customer, and the aging report still shows the invoice at its full value with the credit nowhere on it. Raising a credit note does not apply it

Platform architecture

Platform Overview — What BigLedger actually is — a cloud business operating system built from applets over one shared data core, with a documented API that an AI agent can…
The platform, the API and other systems — Applets and modules, getting data in and out, the REST API, marketplaces and storefronts, and signing in securely

CRM and the contact centre

Duplicate Customers — Why One Person Appears Three Times — The same person shows up as two customers, a member card and an e-invoice in somebody else’s name. What BigLedger uses to recognise a person across customers, contacts, member cards and e-invoice buyers; what links those records and what never does; what a merge changes (including posted documents) and what it never touches; and how to decide, merge and check
Registering a Loyalty Member — Add a member to your loyalty programme, put them in the right class and labels, and adjust their points — plus how to load thousands at once

People and payroll

Configure and run monthly payroll — Set up Payroll Admin for a Malaysian company, assign employees to a pay group, run Calculate through Post GL, and download statutory TXT files
HR & Payroll Guides — Configure Malaysian payroll masters and run the monthly pay cycle in the Payroll Admin applet

Companies, branches and locations

Access, branches and companies — Empty launchpads, empty company dropdowns, a colleague who can see what you cannot, and how a group of companies should actually be set up
The invoice printed the wrong bank account — Your customer has paid into another company’s account, because the invoice told them to. The bank details on a printed invoice are not a BigLedger field at all

Counting and adjusting stock

Counting Stock and Deciding What a Difference Means — For the stock controller and the branch storekeeper
Stock figures and costing — Why the quantity you can sell is not the quantity you have, where a cost came from, what a back-dated purchase does to last month’s margin, and when…

Tax

Maintaining the Item Master — Keep the commercial side of an item right
Malaysian Requirements — SST, LHDN e-Invoice and Peppol in plain English — what BigLedger does for you, what stays your responsibility, and where the authoritative answer lives

AI and machine learning

AI and Automation — What BigLedger’s AI and automation actually do today

The REST API

The platform, the API and other systems — Applets and modules, getting data in and out, the REST API, marketplaces and storefronts, and signing in securely

The Applet Store

Finding Your Way Around — The launchpad, launchpad views, and the layout every BigLedger applet shares — so that once you can drive one applet you can drive all of them

Consignment stock

How does consignment stock work when I don’t own it until it sells? Consignment purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back

Importing and exporting data

The supplier invoiced before delivering. Which document comes first? Invoice-first workflow — When the supplier’s invoice — or a demand for a deposit — arrives before the goods

Manufacturing

Industry Solutions — BigLedger is one product, not six. Where each industry’s specifics live — inside the module and use-case pages whose facts they vary, not on a page per sector

Moving stock between locations

Closing the Month on Stock — For the stock controller and the accountant closing a month

Automation, jobs and alerts

AI and Automation — What BigLedger’s AI and automation actually do today

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