OP 212_Finance Assistant PaperLess User Guide_Iss 1_31072025

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Finance Assistant PaperLess User Guide

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Table of Contents 1 Uploading supplier invoices into PaperLess ......................................................................................................1 5. Attaching pdfs to the invoice in PaperLess.........................................................................................................4 6. Removing pages from an invoice.........................................................................................................................6 11. Add or Amend the Document Flow..........................................................................................................................8 12. Cost Codes for CSL ..................................................................................................................................................10 13. Adding lines to split VAT or amount ......................................................................................................................10 14. Looking up archived invoices.................................................................................................................................11 How to copy, edit and delete document in Paperless video guide..........................................................................12 How to merge and split documents video guide .......................................................................................................12 How to process multiple invoice per email in PaperLess inbox video guide..........................................................12 How to change the background colour in PaperLess video guide...........................................................................12

1 Uploading supplier invoices into PaperLess

1.1 Log into PaperLess by clicking here: PaperLess Web App (and pin to your taskbar).

1.2 Drag purchase invoices from Purchasing Ledger Inbox (pledger@coxskips.co.uk) – for: • Cox Management Service (CMS) • Cox Skips Limited (CSL) • The Recycling Partnership (TRP)

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1.3 Make sure that you are working in the correct company (CSM/CSL/TRP) to match the invoice:

1.4 Click on the relevant company under inbox –

1.5 Always read the email and made sure that there are no discrepancies or information relating to the invoice. This may need to be queried. If you are querying the email/invoice always leave it in the inbox and add a note to this effect so that the department knows where to pick up from. Categorise the email to your name, add a note within the email of brief explanation, your initials and date – highlight in yellow. (Open email, within the Move options, click on the dropdown, from ‘More move actions’- Select Edit Message.

1.6

Type in the email body. Close and ‘Save’ the email.

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1.7 After dragging the invoice to PaperLess – Select the journal type: SUPPINV or SUPPCRED

2 Use the Purchase Ledger Code Flows spreadsheet on Accounts W: drive (click on the link below): Add this file to your favourites.

2.1 00 - 2025 - PURCHASE LEDGER_Codes_Flows_All Companies This is your ‘go to’ for invoice entries. Do Not Edit this document. If you find irregularities within the spreadsheet, do not make any changes, speak to the Assistant Finance Manager – Nicola Hart

2.2 Use the tabs to select the correct company: CMS CSL or TRP.

2.3 Search for the supplier to find the supplier code.

2.4 Look at the invoice & see if it agrees with the spreadsheet row of information – under ‘Description of Services’. Some of our suppliers provide different services for us.

3. Once you have dragged an invoice into PaperLess, move the email from the Purchase Leger inbox to the ‘Dealt With’ folder. This avoids someone else form processing the invoice in Paperless again! Should you transfer an invoice was previously processed – PaperLess warns you that there is a duplicate.

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3.1 If this happens, always check this against Sage. If it is a duplicate - delete this from PaperLess. Click Yes to Delete.

4. Should you need to change to work in a different company – you can select the dropdown and select from the list.

5. Attaching pdfs to the invoice in PaperLess

5.1 If there are multiple pdf attachments within the email, drag them across to PaperLess. Within PaperLess attach the relating pdf to the invoice.

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5.2 To do this make you that you have clicked on the attachment that you want to append to the invoice then click on the Edit PDFs dropdown.

5.3 Select ‘Move and append to other document no’.

5.4 In the pop-up box type in the invoice’s PaperLess referenced no. (not the actual invoice number) that you want to attach the pdf to.

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5.5 Click on OK. You will see that the relating attachment disappears. When you click on the Invoice, there should be multiple pages added which should include the appended document.

5.6 In some instances suppliers such as CiBUS send spreadsheets – these need to be converted into pdf and attached to the invoice, as follows: Open the spreadsheet, click on print – select print to pdf, change the page orientation to landscape, select the scaling to ‘fit all columns to one page’ and click on print, save the pdf to your desktop, attach the pdf to the invoice within PaperLess, delete the pdf from your desktop. 6. Removing pages from an invoice 6.1 If you need to remove pages from an invoice, click on the ‘Edit PDFs’ dropdown and select ‘Delete pages from- to..’

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6.2 Select ‘Delete pages from -to and make a note of the pages after the invoice (especially if the invoice is more than one page and you only want to delete the pages after the invoice) type in the pages

numbers from and to and click on OK.

6.3 Check the pages by clicking on next.

7. Populate the information into PaperLess under the ‘Accounting’ tab ‘Supplier line’:

8. Under ‘Line owner’ line enter the spreadsheet relating information, making sure the net, VAT and gross matches the invoice. (Should you need to split the VAT or allocate to different nominal codes or cost centres, refer to heading ‘Adding lines to split VAT or amount’).

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8.1. If you need to change the VAT to 0 rate – go to the Line owner row and under the VAT column, press key F3 (look up function), which brings up the VAT listing, click on the relevant code and this will update. Check the amounts against the invoice.

Note: ‘Acct. no.’ is our nominal code field.

9. Click on the ‘Document flow’ tab – to make sure that the document flow names match the spreadsheet ‘Correct Document Flow’.

10. Use the document flow referenced in the spreadsheet, as the document flow in PaperLess is set as a default for general purposes. This will only change if a supplier has more than one type of service they provide. Each service may need to go to a different person within the ‘document flow’.

The supplier invoice is now ready for the 2 nd check by another member of the Finance Team . Their approval will transfer the invoice across to Sage. 11. Add or Amend the Document Flow 11.1 To change the flow, click or add a document flow (names of approvers) – then click on ‘Attach recipient(s)’.

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11.2 Select the name(s) in the ‘Selected’ column that no longer required . Click on the ‘left’ arrow to remove.

11.3 Scroll down the ‘Available’ column and select the group or individuals name (matching the spreadsheet selection). Click on the ‘right’ arrow to add to the ‘Selected’ column. You can also double click on the name to move to the ‘Selected’ column.

11.4 Click on Save at the bottom right of the pop-up screen. (Do not click on Save Supplier Default Doc. Flow.)

11.5 Move the names in order of approval so that Managing Director Allan Key is last to approve (at the bottom of the list in the ‘Selected’ box. Click on the up and down arrows.

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12. Cost Codes for CSL

12.1 Cox Skips Limited (CSL) differs from TRP and CMS in that it has cost codes as well as department codes which have to be entered into PaperLess. A reason for this is that stock is purchased or work is carried out for TRP or the Waste Transfer Station (WTS) and invoiced to CSL. Cost Codes Cox Skips Limited supplier invoice relating to work carried out for nominal code 4300 (vehicle maintenance):

Cost Centre: Cox Management Services

Use Cost Code : 100

Cox Skips Limited (Weighbridge) The Recycling Partnership Limited

200 300 400

Waste Transfer Station

Workshop (needs a Department Code)

500 – select from the following:

Department Code for Cost Code 500 : 901 Cox Skips Limited 902 The Recycling Partnership Limited 903 Waste Transfer Station (TSO sometimes) 904 Stock 905 3 rd Party

13. Adding lines to split VAT or amount

13.1 Should you need to split the VAT, allocate different nominal codes or cost codes, you can add a line by clicking on + (to remove the line make sure you click within the line and click on - )

13.2 When you populate the information and net amount, the line above adjusts the net, VAT so that the gross amount remains the same and matches the invoice total. You need to make sure that the VAT is correct.

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14. Looking up archived invoices

14.1 Look up the archived invoices to see how they have been processed: click on the ‘Inbox’ dropdown and select ‘Accounting Archive’.

14.2 Scroll down until you get to ‘Supplier’, to the right of the row, click in the search field and type the supplier’s name and enter.

14.3 This brings up all the archived processed invoices and their allocations:

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14.4 To go back to your invoice, click on the dropdown and select ‘Inbox’.

How to copy, edit and delete document in Paperless video guide

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How to merge and split documents video guide

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How to process multiple invoice per email in PaperLess inbox video guide

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How to change the background colour in PaperLess video guide

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