Maintain Student Payment Agreements {FSAO-13}


A student account is divided in to three sections:


First section:
Division between Fee and Deposit Account.
 
Second Section:
Each fee or deposit account is divided into Account Types.

Third Section:
Each account type may have multiple Payment Agreements.
Rule of the sections:
Section two and three is for internal use only.
All account transactions must have the following values:
Student Number, Account Type and Payment Agreement.
The reason why fee/deposit is not a part of this, is that, fee/deposit is an attribute of the Account Type definition {FCSC-21}.
The minimum requirement per fee and/or deposit account is that each must have one account type and payment agreement link.

Account Types are defined in option {FCSC-21} for the subsystem SD.
Payment Agreement definitions are done in option {FSAM-24}.
In this option the student, account type and payment agreement is linked and only when linked, student account transactions can be processed on the student account.

Background programs will create this link whenever it is required, if the combination does not exist.
The user must create the link in this option if it does not exist, before manual transactions can be process.
The default account types that are linked to the system operational definition (Codes SC, SL, SM of subsystem SD) {FSAM-1}, will be linked in this option but will not have a payment agreement because the system controls that these account balances are either zero or a credit balance.


A diagram of the sections of a student account

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Panel Box 1: Search

The option allows the user to search either per student, account type or agreement code or any combination thereof.



Panel Box 2: Search Results

Field Type
&
Length
Description
Student Number N9  To see all the account type agreement codes linked to the student, use the student number to query the records and student name will be displayed as defined in option {SREGB-1}.
Account Type  A4 SD- Account type, as defined in option "Maintain Account Types" {FCSC-21}. Student journals can only be processed against an account type if a record for the account type/payment agreement exist in this option. Account type/agreement code combinations are automatically created when a student is registered. The account type description will be displayed next to the field.
Agreement  A2 Agreement code as defined in the option "Create Payment Agreements" {FSAM-24}. Account type/agreement code combinations are automatically created when a student is registered, according to the default payment agreements as defined per academic block in {FSAM-25} or linked to system operational definition (Codes SE, SF, SG, SF of subsystem SD) in {FSAM-1}. The agreement description will be displayed next to the field.
Effective Date DD-MON-YYYY This date will be calculated according to the system parameter SB / SD (Use Block or student Registration date) on {FCSM-1b2}, when the student is registered.
  • Registration date, the effective date will be the same as the date of registration.
  • Block date, the effective date will be the start date of the block.
If the payment agreement is defined with fixed dates then this field can be null as the agreement date will be used.

Should the agreement be based on days and the effective the date is updated on an existing account type / payment agreement, the student's account aging will be affected. 
End Date DD-MON-YYYY Display only field and is calculated by the system. It is the date when the payment is 100% payable.
Balance N15.2 The balance of the student / account type / payment agreement combination.

Example:

Example of fsao-13

 

Processing
Rules
 
  No special processing rules



Notes :

The SOD Agreements Parallel / Sequential SP / SD along with the functionality to apply payment agreements, either Sequential or in Parallel has been de-implemented. By default, agreements are applied in Parallel meaning that multiple agreements can exist with the same effective date.

History Of Changes

Date System Version By Whom Job Description
22-Feb-2007 v01.0.0.0 Amanda Nell t135426 New manual format.
26-May-2007 v01.0.0.1 Ernie van den Berg t157364 Review the manual.
09-Nov-2015 v04.0.0.0 Marchand Hildebrand t193911 Convert to ADF
06-Dec-2019 v04.1.0.0 Isaac Matshela T241040 Correction of manual and updating correct image