Application Administration

Setting up your company, users, analysis codes and Salesforce.

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Getting started

  • Aedon Home Page

    The Aedon app home pages and dashboards: which dashboard each Aedon app shows, what it tells you and how to refresh it.

  • Getting Started: Navigating the Aedon Apps

    Find your way around Aedon.Accounting: the Aedon apps for Sales, Purchases, Bank, Journals and Admin, the App Launcher and each app's home page.

  • Switching Company and Shared Master Data

    Switch company in Aedon.Accounting when you keep accounts for more than one organisation, and see which master data is shared between companies.

  • Why Won’t My Transaction Post?

    Transaction won't post in Aedon.Accounting? Check the required fields on the header and lines and any connected records, then fix the error message.

Company and accounting set-up

  • Adding a Company Logo to Aedon

    Add your company logo to Aedon.Accounting by attaching a .png file named companylogo to your company record, and check the file name and format.

  • Companies

    View and change your company details in Aedon.Accounting: lock date, base currency, VAT details, Gift Aid information and address.

  • Creating New Currency Exchange Rates

    Add a currency exchange rate in Aedon.Accounting to convert a foreign currency into your company's base currency from a chosen date.

  • Creating New Financial Years

    Create a new financial year and its periods in Aedon.Accounting, manually or by import, before you post into the new year.

  • Foreign Exchanges Features

    How Aedon.Accounting handles foreign exchange: base currency, exchange rates, foreign currency bank accounts and realised and unrealised gains and losses.

  • Ledger Entries Explained

    What a ledger entry is in Aedon.Accounting, the fields it holds, the ledger entry types and the report types to use for your own reports.

  • Managing the Chart of Accounts

    Manage your chart of accounts in Aedon.Accounting: create, rename, renumber and deactivate nominal codes, and set the fields that drive your reports.

  • Transaction Posting Rules

    The posting rules for every Aedon.Accounting transaction: the debits and credits posted for sales, purchases, bank transactions and journals.

Analysis and budgets

  • Budget Layers

    What budget layers are in Aedon.Accounting and how to use them to record budgets and forecasts and compare them with actual figures.

  • Creating New Analysis Codes

    Set up analysis codes in Aedon.Accounting to analyse transactions by fund, project or department, and add the values your users choose from.

  • Making Changes to Analysis Codes

    Make changes to analysis codes in Aedon.Accounting: rename an analysis code, and add, change or delete the values your users choose from.

Customers, suppliers and products

  • Customer & Supplier Default Products

    Add a default product to a customer or supplier in Aedon.Accounting so it's added automatically to every new invoice for that account.

  • Customers & Suppliers

    Set up customers and suppliers as accounts in Aedon.Accounting, and what the financial fields, credit terms and account tabs do.

  • Products

    Create and set up products in Aedon.Accounting with prices, default nominal codes and tax codes, so invoice lines are quick and accurate.

Users and security

  • Adding New Users to Salesforce

    Add a new Salesforce user for Aedon.Accounting: create the user, assign the Aedon permission sets and give access to the right companies.

  • Assigning Role Based User Security

    The Aedon role-based permission sets, such as Sales Ledger and Cashier, what each one gives access to, and how to change and assign them to users.

  • Translating Aedon.Accounting

    Translate Aedon.Accounting into your users' languages: set each user's language and translate the Aedon labels with the Salesforce Translation Workbench.

Salesforce administration

  • Creating a Sandbox with Aedon.Accounting

    Create a Partial Copy or Full sandbox of an org with Aedon.Accounting installed, then check the copy and stop scheduled jobs before you test.

  • Database Structure – Entity Relationship Diagram

    A simplified entity relationship diagram of Aedon.Accounting, showing how its transaction, master data and reporting objects relate in Salesforce.

  • dataloader.io

    When to use dataloader.io to insert, update, upsert or delete Salesforce records in bulk with Aedon.Accounting, and what to use for opening balances instead.

  • Email Integration

    How email works in Salesforce for Aedon.Accounting invoices, notifications and approvals, with the Email Integration trailmix and deliverability settings.

  • Importing Transactions with Upload Templates

    Import sales and purchase invoices, credits, payments on account, journals and master data into Aedon.Accounting from a spreadsheet upload template.

  • Scheduling a Back-Up

    How to back up your Aedon.Accounting data: Salesforce Data Export, Salesforce Backup and metadata backups, and why you should schedule them regularly.

  • Scheduling Jobs for Recurring Transactions

    Schedule the Aedon Apex jobs that create recurring invoices, recurring journals, revenue recognition and auto-reversing journals in Salesforce Setup.

  • Standard Object Conflicts with Aedon

    The fields Aedon.Accounting adds to standard Salesforce objects, and how existing validation rules, flows and triggers can conflict with them.

  • Using Salesforce’s Sandbox

    The Salesforce sandbox types, what each one copies and how often it can be refreshed, for testing Aedon.Accounting changes safely before going live.