In ESREAL ERP Services are simple activities that the company executes and sells in a normally repetitive way, though not a requirement.
There is no stock or inventory of Services in the Stores. But each Service must have an associated inventory or expenses account, depending on company accounting policies, that is charged when related activities are executed and credited when the sales of the Service happen.
Charges to the Service associated account may come from internal labor assignment using accounting entries, from external contracted services using the general payments tool, or from the consumption of company inventory Products using the provided ESREAL ERP Supplies activity. The consumption of products in a Service may be reported using this tool or invoiced directly to the customer, depending on company policies.
When registering the consumption of products in a Service in the Supplies the product quantities may be manually registered selecting the Product by the initial characters of its Code or Name, or by narrowing the Product options using Product grouping selectors, or by using a bar code reader. An image of the Product may be displayed to confirm the identity of the product before entering it.
When a Service is invoiced, the Service cost of sales is calculated deducting from the sales price the target registered margin for the Service Product and credited to the associated inventory or expenses account.
When the associated account is an inventory account, at the end of every accounting period its net value should be conciliated to the actual Service in-process inventory using an expense account. With this exception, ESREAL ERP automatically generates the corresponding accounting entries so that the accounting of your company is always up to date.