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Sales orders

Purchasing

  • Best Practices — The handful of BigLedger habits that stop the expensive mistakes
  • Consignment Purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Incoming Supplier E-Invoices — What BigLedger does and does not do with the e-invoices your suppliers issue to you
  • Invoice-First Workflow — When the supplier’s invoice — or a demand for a deposit — arrives before the goods
  • 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
  • Standard Procurement Workflow — Order from a supplier, receive the goods, book the bill and pay it

E-Invoice and PEPPOL

Stock on hand

  • Choosing an Item Type — The one field on a new item you cannot change afterwards
  • Consignment Purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back
  • 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
  • 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 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 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

Master data

  • Basic Operations — The master data everything else in BigLedger reads — items, their types, and the two records every product has
  • Choosing an Item Type — The one field on a new item you cannot change afterwards
  • Creating an Item — Add your first product to BigLedger end to end
  • 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…
  • 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
  • Maintaining Items — Keep your product records right in BigLedger
  • Maintaining the Item Master — Keep the commercial side of an item right
  • Setting Up Pricing Schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale

General ledger and journals

  • Accounting Guides — Setup your chart of accounts, manage daily journal entries, reconcile bank statements, and generate financial reports
  • 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
  • Best Practices — The handful of BigLedger habits that stop the expensive mistakes
  • 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
  • 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…
  • 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
  • Journal Entries Guide — Post a balanced manual journal, clone a recurring one, and void a mistake so your month-end ledger lands clean

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
  • 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
  • Designing Pricing Rules — Build price sets that behave the way you intended
  • Member Classes — Create the tiers of your loyalty programme — and understand why the class, not the label, is what pricing and commission actually read
  • Setting Up Pricing Schemes — Give the same item different standard prices for retail, members and wholesale
  • Setting Up a Price Book — Build a price book that actually changes the price on a sales line

Point of sale

Users, teams and permissions

  • 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
  • Groups — Create a group, get people into it, and attach the permissions everyone in it should inherit
  • Teams and Permissions — Set up teams in BigLedger and control who can view, edit and export customer and membership data

Delivery and installation

Money you owe

Money owed to you

Financial reports

  • 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
  • Reports & Analytics — Which BigLedger report answers which question

Receiving goods

  • 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
  • Goods Received Note Processing — Receive a delivery against a purchase order, count it honestly, capture serial and batch details, and finalise the GRN

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

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

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…

Cashbooks, banks and settlement

Consignment stock

  • Consignment Purchasing — Take stock from a supplier who still owns it, sell it, pay only for what sold, and send the rest back

CRM and the contact centre

  • 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

Importing and exporting data

  • 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

Returns, credit notes and warranty

Tax

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