Now that you've set up Populi Financial, you should take a few minutes to look over general Financial settings. These settings cover a wide variety of miscellaneous billing, accounting, and financial aid functions.
Keep in mind that you've also laid some of the setup groundwork for Financial Aid, Donations, and Bookstore.
To get started, click the main Settings view on the right of the screen. Most of the settings on this page explain how they will affect your use of Populi's financial functions; below you'll find further explanation of certain, more complicated settings.
Federal Work Study Account
Select an asset account in which FWS funds will reside in while at your school. See this article for the full FWS workflow.
Start Generating Automatic Charges
Select a term as of which you wish to begin generating charges. This setting prevents pending charges from being inadvertently generated in past terms (which can happen when you're adding or updating historical academic information). It's best to choose the first term in which you'll be testing or implementing Populi Financial.
"Pay Now" Cutoff
Enter a number of calendar days. Charges due within this number of days will be counted in the "Pay Now" amount on a student's Financial Dashboard. Charges due past this number of days will not be counted. For example:
- You enter 30 in this field.
- John Adams has $150 due on August 15 and $450 due on September 15.
- On August 12, John's "Pay Now" amount is $150. The $450 due in September is thus far excluded from the "Pay Now" amount.
- He misses the payment deadline by a few days and next logs in on August 18. His "Pay Now" amount is now $600: the $150 that's overdue plus the $450 due in September—which now fits within the 30-day cutoff you set up.
If you wish all charges to be counted in the "Pay Now" amount, leave this field blank.
Consider uncollectible invoices in Pay Now
Select “Yes” to include the unpaid portion of invoices marked “uncollectible” in the “Pay Now” amount. This article describes how this setting affects uncollectible invoices.
Default Invoice Due Dates
When creating an invoice, how many days in the future would you like the default due date to be? For example, if your school has a net 30 policy, enter 30 to default to invoice due dates that are 30 calendar days away. You can always edit any invoice due date after it is created.
Enrollment Agreements
Read about Enrollment Agreements in this article.
Financial Lock Period
Read about how to use financial lock periods in this article.
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