Credit limits can be set up for individual customer accounts to prevent new charges or invoices from being added to their account if they owe more than a set amount or fall too far behind on payments.
Enable Credit Limit on Account Customer
To enable a credit limit on an account customer, follow the steps below:
- On the top menu bar of Retailer, click on Customers → Customer Screen.
- In the Customers window, click on the Other tab at the bottom and make sure that Account Customer is ticked.
- Click on the Credit tab.
- Tick the box labelled Enable credit limit by.
- There are two different methods for setting a credit limit:
- Dollar Value - Allows you to set a maximum amount that can be credited to their account before they are no longer able to put anything else on credit.
- Days - Allows you to set the maximum number of days they can owe money before their account is suspended.
- The option for the number of days will depend on the Aging Type selected in the Other tab:
- 7 Days maximum age options:
- 7 days
- 14 days
- 21 days +
- 30 Days maximum age options:
- 30 Days
- 60 Days
- 90 Days +
- End of Month maximum age options:
- Last Month
- 2 Months
- 3 Months +
- End of Following Month maximum age options:
- 2 Months
- 3 Months
- 4 Months +
- In Credit limit sale types, click the plus or minus buttons to add or remove sale types that the credit limit will apply to.
- The options include: Invoice, Layby, Order Charge, Valuation and Duty/Tax Free Sale.
- Click Save.
- Click Close.

When a customer exceeds their credit limit for the relevant sales, a warning message will appear in the POS screen and ask the staff if they wish to continue with the sale.

Another term for setting a credit limit on an account customer for non-payment of their invoices is stop supply.