Overview
Navigation within Reporter happens through the Menu Bar at the top of each Reporter page. The main bar appears on every page. A secondary bar, just below the main bar, changes according to which main bar option is selected.
When you open Reporter, you land on the Welcome page. This page lists the number of Remittance Reports received by Auditor in recent months. There is no secondary bar on this page.
Remittances
When you select Remittances on the main bar, you see a secondary bar with Remittances (number), Trial Deposit (number), and Deposits.
Remittances
The Remittances tab lists all remittances reports that have been received but not yet deposited. The number in parentheses tells how many remittances are in this list.
The check boxes in Column 1 allow the user to choose which remittances to include in the current Trial Deposit. Once you've checked the remittances you'd like to include, click Make Trial Deposit at the bottom of the page.
Column 2 lists the remittance check number, for easy matching. Numbers with a - sign in front are ACH.
Click the blue arrow in Column 3 to view, edit, or set up the ACH information for that church.
The Church Name list in Column 4 is color-coded: blue means all is well, but red means that one or more Jewel Accounts from that church must be mapped to their corresponding Conference Accounts.
The last three columns are self-explanatory. The Date in Column 5 is the month the remittance is for. Column 6 gives the Amount of the remittance. And Column 7 is the date and time the remittance report was received by the server.
Trial Deposit
The Trial Deposit page includes most of the same information about each deposit as the Remittances page did. If a remittance was selected that should not be included in this deposit, it can be removed by clicking in the last column.
We also see the total amount of the deposit, and two options for making a Deposit. Create New Deposit has editable fields for the date and a description of the deposit. Or we can add more remittances to the Last Deposit we created in Reporter.
Deposits
This page lists deposits compiled in Reporter. The default is to show only the last 3 months, but All Deposits can also be selected. The Date, Description, and Amount of each deposit are listed (remember Date and Description were set on the Trial Deposit page).
Each deposit can be Exported to AASI, or Printed. Recent deposits can be reverted to Trial Deposit if changes need to be made. You can also click on the deposit's Description to view the deposit, edit ACH information, and complete mapping.
Reports
When you select Reports from the main bar, the secondary bar includes Remittance Tools and Remittances YTD (year to date).
- I can't see any of these reports on Cayman, so IDK what they say.
Lists
The secondary bar here contains the different lists that Reporter allows you to view and edit. This is a good place to come to edit the items in the lists, as well.
Jewel Accounts
This list includes both Global mappings and Specific mappings of Jewel Account IDs to AASI Account IDs. Global mappings apply to all churches in the Conference, and are a big time saver, which is a good reason for conferences to encourage assignment AASI's ID numbers for Conference funds in their local church's Jewel programs. Jewel facilitates this process by allowing Conferences to provide a list of IDs and descriptions for church's to choose from when adding Conference funds to Jewel. Exceptions to Global mappings are easily entered as Specific mappings.
Specific mappings are necessary when churches make up their own IDs for conference funds, or have continued using old IDs. Reporter handles both exceptions to Global mappings and Specific mappings for little-used funds.
From the Jewel Accounts list, users can Edit or Delete global mappings, or Remove specific mappings (including those that are exceptions to Global mappings.
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