Freight charges can be entered manually on a sales invoice or can be automatically calculated by EBMS when the invoice is entered.
Manual Freight Entry
If you wish to manually add a freight charge to a sales invoice, enter the Freight amount on the bottom of the invoice. The freight income will be posted to the Freight Charges general ledger account entered in View > Advanced Options dialog accessed from the invoice menu. Sales tax will NOT be calculated on the freight amount entered on the invoice footer. To calculate sales tax on freight income enter a detail invoice line as shown below:
Automatic Freight Entry
A sale is identified as being delivered or shipped rather than being a pickup (FOB) sale by the Ship Via field. The Ship Via field defaults to the pickup code recorded in Sales > Customer > Terms tab – Standard Shipping Method (FOB). If the Ship Via code is changed to anything besides the default customer FOB setting, the sales order will be identified as involving freight charges and will print the Ship To name and address on the printed invoice. See the Entering and Printing a Sales Order section for more details on the Ship To field. The Freight charges will be automatically calculated only if the total of the sales order is below the Minimum Free Freight amount entered in Sales > Customers > Terms tab. To view the Freight charge amount go to the invoice menu’s View > Advanced Options – Freight Charge field that is copied from the Sales > Customers > Terms tab when a sales order or invoice is created. If the freight charge is manually changed on the invoice footer, the Freight Charge amount in Advanced Options will be zeroed so the Freight amount will no longer be calculated automatically.