Accounts Receivable > Setup > Geographic Areas

Geographic Areas

You use this program to capture and maintain details of geographic areas required within the system.

Geographic Area Details

Field Description
Geographic area Indicate the code for the geographic area to add or maintain.
Geographic area information  
Geographic area Indicates the code for the geographic area you are maintaining.
Description Indicate the name associated with the geographic area.
Tax options You can only access this section if your tax system is based on geographic area (Company Tax Options Setup).
Use tax code from stock item

Uses the Tax code held against the stock item to determine the applicable rate of tax during processing in either the Sales Order Entry or AR Invoice Posting programs (instead of the Tax code entered here).

See also: Notes and warnings.
Tax code

If you do not want to use the tax code defined against the stock item for sales in this geographic area, then you must enter a valid tax code in this field.

Tax codes are maintained using the Tax Code Setup program.
GST options

These options apply only if:

  • your nationality code is defined as CAN; and
  • the tax system is by geographic area; and
  • Canadian GST is enabled.
Use GST code from stock item

Uses the GST code held against the stock item to determine the applicable GST during processing in either the Sales Order Entry or AR Invoice Posting programs (instead of the GST code entered here).

See also: Notes and warnings.
GST code

Enter a valid GST code (in the range A-H) here if you do not want the GST code from the stock item to be used for sales in this geographic area.

The GST code is not applicable if either the customer or the stock item is exempt from GST.
Provincial tax calculated on GST

Calculates provincial tax on the invoice line value as well as on any GST.

[Note]

This option doesn't apply to a Basic tax system (Company Tax Options Setup). If the basic tax system is defined, then provincial tax (PST) is never calculated on top of GST, regardless of your selection here.

Notes and warnings

Coding considerations

  • The geographic area is a 10-character alphanumeric field.

Tax considerations

  • If you are using the geographic area to apply different tax rules to sale amounts, then the sales areas must match the tax areas or be a portion of the tax area.

  • If you enable the Use Tax (or GST) code from stock item option, then the Promotion tax - Tax code is used for Trade Promotions (Trade Promotion Setup). If the Promotion tax - Tax code is not defined, then no tax is applied to Trade Promotions, regardless of the tax options defined against the geographic area.

Deletion considerations

  • SYSPRO does not validate whether any customers are attached to the geographic area when you delete a geographic area.

  • You cannot process sales orders for customers that belong to a geographic area that has been deleted.

Inserting Application Help

You would typically follow this procedure to display help for the current program in a customized pane that can be pinned to the program window.

Information includes step-by-step instructions for the various functions available within the program, including a brief overview of what the program does, what setup options are required and how to personalize the program.

  1. Open the program for which you want to insert application help into a customized pane.

    This functionality is only available for a program that has panes.

  2. Right-click any form field.

    You can also click the triangle menu icon that appears in the title area of a pane.

  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

    The application help appears in a pane within your program. You can reposition the pane using the docking stickers or pin it to the program window.

Removing the Application Help pane

If you no longer want to display application help in a pane for your current program, you can simply remove it.

  1. Select the Close icon in the right-hand corner of the application help pane.

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.