You can easily identify if a customer has an outstanding balance, or has credit, at your store. Whether you're in a transaction or in the customer's record, Ascend makes it easy.

There are multiple locations where you can view:

• Sales - their total for completed sales
• Layaways - their total balance for open sales
• Work Order - their total balance in the service center
• Deposits - their available deposit balance
• Gift Cert - their available Gift Certificate balance (which should be in parentheses, indicating a negative balance)
• In-Store Credit - their available In-Store Credit balance (which should also be in parentheses, indicating a negative balance) 
• Balance - they customer's outstanding Layaway/Work Order balances minus any Deposit/In-Store Credit balances.

In the customer record

Navigate to Database Explorer > Customers or View > Customers and find your customer.

If you highlight the customer's name, you can see their account balances along the bottom of the window.

If you double-click a customer's name to open their customer record, you can see the same information on the lower right.

In a transaction

If you're in a transaction, make sure to attach a customer to the sale. Then, look in the lower right portion of the window, under the Sales tab, to see their balances.

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