| | Set customer and supplier payments to be due immediately |
| Description | In your customer and supplier records, you can set payments to be due by a certain number of days after the invoice date. In Sage 50 Accounts v28.0 and below, if Payment Due in the customer or supplier record is set to zero, a default value of 30 days applies to the invoice due dates. 
In Sage 50 Accounts v28.1 you can now choose whether invoices are due immediately or after 30 days when customer or supplier records have a Payment Due value of zero. Let's take a look.  NOTE: Changing these settings will not apply to transactions already created, if you need to change the due date on an existing transaction you must Correct the transaction.
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| Resolution | - In Sage 50 Accounts, click Settings.
- Click Customer Defaults or Supplier Defaults as required.
- Click the Ageing/Due date tab.
- Apply the setting you prefer:
When due days is zero, payment is to be due immediately.
| To apply this setting, select the Payment due immediately when payment due days is set to zero check box.
Where payment due days is set to zero, an invoice dated 01/05/2022 is also due on 01/05/2022. | | When due days is zero, payment is to be due in 30 days. | To apply this setting, clear the Payment due immediately when payment due days is set to zero check box.
Where payment due days is set to zero, an invoice dated 01/05/2022 is due on 31/05/2022. |
- Click OK.
If you haven't already set Payment Due values, you can do this now > - In Sage 50 Accounts, click Customers or Suppliers as required.
- Double-click the record you want to amend.
- Click the Credit Control tab, then in Payment Due enter 0.
- In the Payment Due From drop-down, choose days after the invoice date.
 TIP: For information about other Payment Due From options, please refer to this guide.
To save the record, click Save.
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