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Finally, i am just about caught up entering all the back transactions since Jan. I hope to soon have some help and be able to enter bills in the accounts payable section for future payment. The first step, I guess, is setting up the vendor records. First, any tips or tricks for coming up with the Vendor ID? It doesn't seem like 6 characters goes very far with some complicated company names.
After that, am I ready to start entering payables or are there any other steps? since I'm going to be turning this over to someone without any experience in PowerChurch, I want things to go smoothly.
thanks,
Debbie

As far as convention, for personal names, we use first letter of the first name, space, four letters of the last name.

Businesses work out better if the ID starts with the same letter as the name, so that it sorts correctly alphabetically.