Bill Payments
Overview
The Bill Payments Data Model is designed to standardise and simplify the management of bill payment information across various accounting platforms.
- Unified bill payment properties: The model unifies essential core payment details, such as payment date, payment mode, currency, and amount, ensuring consistent access to payment data.
- Associated data linkage: The data model connects bill payments to related information, such as bills, contacts, and accounts, using platform-specific IDs for easy cross-referencing.
- Currency conversion support: The
currency_rateproperty provides the exchange rate between the payment currency and the base currency, facilitating multi-currency payment handling and reporting.
Properties Supported
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| platform_id | string | The Platform’s ID for this bill payment |
| payment_id | string | The Platform’s ID for the payment. A payment can have multiple bill payments |
| bill_id | string | The platform’s ID of the bill which this payment is associated with |
| contact_id | string | The platform’s ID of the contact that made the payment |
| account_id | string | The platform’s ID of the account to which this payment belongs |
| amount | float | The total value of this payment |
| payment_date | date | The date on which the payment was made |
| payment_mode | string | The payment method used |
| currency_id | string | The Platform’s ID of the currency for the bill payment |
| currency_rate | float | Rate between the currency of the payment and the base currency |
| memo | string | Description of the payment |
| updated_at | date | The date at which the information was updated on the accounting platform |
Expandable Attributes
You can expand the following attributes to get the related data
| Property | Data Model | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bill | Bills | The bill associated with the payment |
| contact | Contacts | The contact that made the bill payment |
| currency | Currencies | The currency of the bill payment |
| account | Accounts | The account associated to the bill |