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talech House Accounts

House accounts enables your customers to carry a prepaid balance, or tab.

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House accounts enables your customers to carry a prepaid balance, or tab. You can send statements to your customers, have them pay online with a credit card, and assign account permissions on a case-by-case basis (you can approve customers to carry a negative balance). 

To use the house accounts, you must first set up the Customer account (See talech Customers feature).

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Set up house accounts on the talech app 

  1. Log into your register app as an Admin.
  2. Navigate to Back Office > Settings.  ​​​​​​
  3. Scroll down to Payment > select House Account.

 

general settings in back office

 

  1. Configure your House Account. See a description of available settings below.

 

house account settings   
 

House Account 

This setting enabled your House Account option 

Allow online payment 

This setting allows your customer to pay for the balance on their house account online. See more below. 

Allow negative account balance 

This allows your customer to go into a negative balance. There are three settings for this  

On (Customer Setting Enabled) - This means that the ability to go into negative balance is enabled, but you can go to a specific customer profile and disable it for them. 

On (Customer Setting Disabled) - This means that the ability to go into negative balance is enabled across the board. 

Off – The negative balance is disabled entirely. 

Account balance limit 

This is the maximum amount of credit you are extending to your customers.  

Day of month to send store credit statement 

If you input 4 here your customers will get a statement on the 4th of the month. 

Default payment terms 

This setting can enable you to set a minimum payment that the customer can make towards what they owe on their house account. 

 

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    Charging a house account 

    Your house account is now set up. Follow the steps below to apply a customer house account balance towards an order. 

    Note: The Customer account must be set up before you can charge it. See talech Customers feature for more information. 

    1. Ring up an order as usual and attach the order to the customer using the customer field at the top. 

     

    open order screen with customer being added. 
     

    1. Select Pay.
    2. On the Amount Due screen, select Store Credit.
    3. Select Charge Account

     

    charge screen with customer account added.

     

    1. Select Confirm. The charge will be applied to the House Account.

     

    charge screen with store credit selected.  

     

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    Checking your customers' house account balance 

    1. Log in to talech.com.
    2. Navigate to Customers.
    3. Select a customer to open their profile.
    4. Select the House Account tab under the Activity section to view their balance and any transaction history.

     

    Customer profile screen with house account tab highlighted. 
     
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    Adding value to a customer's account or paying the balance due 

    There are a few ways for your customers to make a payment towards their house account balance:

    From the talech app:

    1. Log into your talech Register.
    2. Select Customers (on Android) or Back Office > Customers (on iOS).
    3. Select the Customer in question, then House Account (on Android) or Accounts (on iOS) at top. 

     

    customer details menu in register

      

    1. Select Pay Balance and enter the amount the customer wishes to pay.  

     

    charge screen on register
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    Pay house account online

    The customer may want to pay the outstanding account balance online. You must first enable and set up online ordering on talech.com.

    Refer to Related Articles section for online ordering setup instructions for your business. 

    Related articles

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