Referral to Collection Agency Transaction Type

The Referral to Collection Agency (CL) Transaction Type allows you to refer receivables that are significantly past due to collection agencies. This transaction can reference receivables containing accounting lines with the event types of Billed Earned Revenue or Billed Vendor Refund. Receivables containing accounting lines with outstanding balances and any other event types cannot be referenced on the Referral to Collection Agency transaction. Summary receivables, regardless of event type, and regular receivables with a billing profile code that specifies a Billing Type of No Billing Required cannot be sent for collection.

Both online and batch approaches to creating CL transactions use the receivable accounting line outstanding amount to ensure the correct balances are sent for collection. CL transactions require minimal data entry since most of the information is inferred onto the transaction from the Receivable (RE) transaction. Once a CL transaction is processed, it cannot be modified; it can only be cancelled.

Before referring a Receivable to a collection agency, you must establish a Collection Agency Agreement Number on the Collection Agency Agreement table.

For detailed information on each of the tabs that exist on the CL, refer to the following topics:   

• Header

• Vendor

• Accounting

Referral to Collection Agency Delivered Transaction Code

Tasks

Related Topic(s):

• For a description of the delivered event types allowed for the CL transaction type, please refer to "Accounts Receivable Accounting Model" under the Accounting Model Delivered Configuration topic in the CGI Advantage - Financial Administration User Guide.