Unit 6 – Transactions 121

Fix Length of Numeric Part

Specify ‘Y’ in this data field if you want to fix length of the numeric part of the voucher. For example, you want that size of voucher numbers for all the vouchers should always be same, whether it is the first voucher or the hundredth voucher. For this purpose, you can fix the numeric part of the voucher and can specify the character to be added to the numeric part to make it equal in size to other voucher numbers.

Padding Details

This group gets active only on specifying ‘Y’ in the Fix Length of Numeric Part data field. Under this group, you can specify the details about fixing the length of numeric part of the voucher number. Various data fields under this group are:

Total Length of Numeric Part

Specify total length of the numeric part of voucher number in this data field. For example, you want numeric part of voucher number to be of four digits always then you can specify ‘4’ in this data field.

Padding Character

Specify the character to be added to the numeric part of the voucher number to make it equivalent to the value specified in the Total Length of Numeric Part data field. For example, if you specify ‘0’ in this data field and ‘4’ in previous data field then first voucher number will appear as 0001, tenth voucher number will appear as 0010, hundredth voucher number will appear as 0100 and thousandth voucher number will appear as 1000.

After entering appropriate details in the data fields, click the Save button to save the Voucher Numbering configuration.