IMPORT COMPANY CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS

Use this screen to import credit card transactions into Costpoint. Uploading these transactions into Costpoint allows you to post job costs in real time rather than posting them at a later date. As a result, you are better able to monitor, analyze, and report your company's purchasing, travel, and entertainment expenditures.

Only one user at a time can run this application.

You must complete the Manage Credit Card Import Information screen before using this screen.

There are two ways to work with input files in Costpoint:

If you decide to use the first option, click in the File Location field to select an alternate file location. If you choose the second option, leave the File Location field blank and use the File Upload Manager to upload the input file to the Costpoint database.

Location

Identification

Use the fields in this block to create a new parameter ID or to retrieve a previously saved parameter ID. A parameter ID represents a set of screen selection parameters. After you have saved a parameter ID and its related parameters, you can retrieve them using Query.

You can use the retrieved parameters to produce reports and run processes more efficiently and with greater consistency. The saved parameters are also useful and necessary when you want to run the process as part of a batch job. Many users save a unique set of parameters for each different way they run a report or process. When you select a previously saved parameter ID or parameter description, the associated saved screen selection parameters automatically display as selection defaults. The page setup and print options are also included in the saved parameter ID if there are any. You can change any of the associated selection defaults as necessary.

Parameter ID

Enter, or click to select, a parameter ID of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. Choose characters for your parameter ID that help identify the type of selections you made in the screen, such as PERIOD or QUARTERLY.

When you save your record, all the selections made in the screen are stored with the parameter ID. Later, you can retrieve the parameter using Query.

You can use the parameter to run the process more efficiently because you can select the parameter ID with its previously defined screen selections. After the default selections display in the screen, you can override the defaults.

Description

Enter, or click to select, a parameter description of up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Options

Input File

File Location

Enter the location of the input file you are importing. There are two ways to do this:

or

File Name

Enter or click to select, the Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file.

Credit Card Type

Enter, or click the drop-down list to select, a credit card type. You specify the credit card type on the Manage Credit Card Import Information screen. When you specify the type, the name displays in the adjacent, unlabeled field.

Manually Assign Pay Vendor

Enter, or click to select, the identifier of the pay vendor. When you select a vendor ID, the corresponding vendor name displays in the adjacent, unlabeled field.

Assign Period

Fiscal Year

Enter, or click to select, the fiscal year that displays on the voucher.

Period

Enter, or click to select, the period that displays on the voucher.

Subperiod

Enter, or click to select, the subperiod that displays on the voucher.

Voucher Numbering Method

System

Select this option to have Costpoint assign a unique, sequential number to identify the credit card transactions that you upload into Costpoint. This number is determined by incrementing the Last System Voucher Number (from the Configure Accounts Payable Voucher Settings screen) by one.

Before you select this option, select the System option in the Voucher Numbering Method group box on the Configure Accounts Payable Voucher Settings screen. Also, the number in the Last System Voucher Number field must be greater than or equal to zero.

Manual

Select this option to specify your own beginning voucher number.

Beginning Voucher Number

The way you use this field depends on which voucher number method you select:

Create a Separate Voucher for Each

Vendor

Select this option to group vouchers by vendor. The total of the vendor's transactions will be the invoice amount on the voucher.

Transaction

Select this option to create a separate voucher for each transaction. You can have more than one voucher for the same vendor.

Overwrite the existing record

Keep this check box selected (the default) to allow overwriting of existing records during the import process. Clear this check box to prevent overwriting of existing records.

Continue to process with error records

Keep this check box selected (the default) to instruct Costpoint to continue processing if it encounters error records. Clear this check box to have Costpoint stop processing if it encounters error records.

Override if Pay Vendor on Payment Hold

If you specify a pay vendor in the Manually Assign Pay Vendor field, select this option to override if that pay vendor is on payment hold status.

Process

Print/Validate Input File

Click drop-down list and select this option to validate the input file and print the error and edit report.

Import Vouchers

Click drop-down list and select this option to import the vouchers from the temporary tables into their associated master tables.