V16 Training · Sales and Credit Control · Lesson 3 of 6

Terms and conditions, shipping rules and incoterms

This lesson shows how to write standard terms once, pick them on a sales form, add freight with a shipping rule, and name the incoterm.

Sales and Credit Control, lesson 3: Terms and conditions, shipping rules and incoterms. 2:45, narrated, with captions. Screens come from a demo company; your own Parsimony site shows your data.

Written guide

The screens use example data from a demo company that sells flooring.

Step by step

Step 1. Write your standard terms once

Open Terms and Conditions and open Standard terms. Four numbered points here; the Selling box decides that sales forms offer it.

Standard terms
Standard terms

Step 2. Pick the terms on a form

On a new quotation, open the Terms tab and click the Terms box.

Terms box
Terms box

Step 3. Add freight by rule

The shipping rule Standard freight is a fixed $150, booked to Freight and Forwarding Charges. Pick it in the Shipping Rule box.

Standard freight
Standard freight
Shipping Rule box
Shipping Rule box

Step 4. Name the incoterm

An incoterm decides who pays freight and who carries risk in transit. Eleven are listed; the Incoterm box sits beside Shipping Rule.

Incoterms
Incoterms
Incoterm box
Incoterm box

For payment terms, see lesson 1 of this course.

Check yourself

3 quick questions.

1. What does an incoterm decide?

2. Where do you pick standard wording on a quotation?

3. How does Standard freight calculate?