Maintain currencies

IT Manager Practice Admin

This category is made up of two sub categories – Currencies and Currency Rates. It is used by the system to provide currency options against clients and to calculate balances within DRS and within fees.

  1. Select Admin > Categories from the menu.

  2. Select Main Categories from the list.

  3. Expand Currency Maintenance which consist of two elements Currencies (used to create the different currencies available in the system ) and Currency Rates (the current exchange rate for each currency).
  4. Complete the required information, then click Save. See the following tables for details.

Currency

FIELD DESCRIPTION
Currency Enter the Currency code.
Description Enter a description for the currency.
Symbol Enter the currency symbol that should be used.
Euro This field is no longer required.
Rate Default This indicates the exchange rate that should be applied against the system base currency.
Units Enter the plural description for the main unit of currency, for example, Dollars.
Unit Enter the singular description for the main unit of currency, for example, Dollar.
Fractions Enter the plural description for the fractional unit of currency, for example, Cents.
Fraction Enter the singular description for the fractional unit of currency, for example, Cent.

Currency Rate

FIELD DESCRIPTION
Currency Select the currency the rate should apply to from the drop-down menu.
Date Enter the date that the new rate should be effective from.
Rate Enter the new exchange rate that should be applied.