{"id":18863,"date":"2018-05-10T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2024-03-27T05:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T05:40:40","slug":"short-name-of-a-r-customer-in-sage-300-erp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2018\/05\/10\/short-name-of-a-r-customer-in-sage-300-erp\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Name of A\/R Customer in Sage 300 ERP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Sage 300 ERP, under A\/R customer there is a field called Short Name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can enter a code or &#8220;short name&#8221; of up to ten characters for each customer. Short names are a means by which we can list customers in alphabetical order or another order on reports, and still include the full customer name in the customer record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Stuff:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2018\/05\/10\/difference-between-ar-item-and-ic-item\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Difference between AR Item and IC Item<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assume we have the following four customers. When listed alphabetically, the names appear in this order:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A. Carson &amp; Co.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Bashaw Bulldozing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Mr. Stephen Kershaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The Garden Restaurant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If we assign a short name that uses up to the first ten letters of the name by which we want to list the accounts, they appear in this order:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can also leave spaces, assigning &#8220;Craig &amp; Co&#8221; as a short name, for example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we add a customer record, Accounts Receivable automatically inserts the first ten characters of the customer name as the default short name for the record, but we can enter any short name we want to use, or not use a short name at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can print short names on customer statement and can also use them for a purpose that is unrelated to customer names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If we designed our customer numbers so that they list customers in alphabetical order (or in another order that meets our requirements), we might prefer not to use short names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greytrix is a one stop solution provider for Sage ERP and Sage CRM needs. We provide complete end-to-end assistance for your technical consultations, product customizations, data migration, system integrations, third party add-on development and implementation expertise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greytrix<\/a>\u00a0has some unique solutions of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-crm\/gumu-sage-300-erp-integration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sage 300 integration with Sage CRM,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-300-erp\/gumu-300-salesforce-integration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salesforce.com\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-300-erp\/ecommerce-magento-integration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magento eCommerce<\/a> along with Sage 300 Migration from Sage 50 US, Sage 50 CA, Sage PRO, QuickBooks, Sage Business Vision and Sage Business Works. 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