 issue the invoice and then it's due in a certain time frame so so maybe you want to send out payments only to those that have not yet sent you payment and it's overdue now so if you had if you gave them thirty days to pay you and it's past thirty days maybe you just send the the statements out for them so that could quite be the case quite possibly so now we're gonna say the date range gonna start at eleven thirty and go to the current date typically you're gonna go to the current date which we're gonna imagine here's 12 30 23 down below if there were customers that don't have an email then they would be over here you can't send them a statement by email if they don't have an email right you'd have to actually print out the statements which you might be able to do and mail it but clearly you would like if you're sending out invoices to have the email address you could send it out by email so these are the statements available we have the 17 you can see we have the recipients name we've got their email address and we've got the balance outstanding down below we can cancel we can print preview we can save we can save and send that's what we're gonna do when we're done with the whole thing or save and close and I want to say print preview let's check them out so then we have our statements that have been created so we have our name up top we have the statement format and then here you can see this is the balance forward so this is the amount that was due to us prior to the date that we started that we that we put on that we started the the starting point date and then this is the current activity that has happened between the date that we're looking at which is basically December so this is the December activity and invoice a payment and a payment so you have the running balance on the right-hand side which gives them a little bit of detail of the activity that is happening and it gives us the balance still due 239 it also gives this little report down below for the for the outstanding balance that breaks out by current due 1 to 30 days past due so it gives them this past due amount here to once again and they also gives a nice little bottom line in the settings I think you can turn this off if you don't want this bit down below but I don't see why you wouldn't want it let's pretty it's pretty useful because it gets to kind of like the bottom line down below and a little bit more information of saying hey look it's past due if we go through it gives a statement here's the next one that we just go to all of them here's the balance forward no activity in the current tie period and it's been passed due and then we have the next one here's the balance forward the payment happened and then another invoice happened and so this one actually got paid off notice it's showing the detail there's the there's the balance it was paid off and then here's the new invoice it's showing the activity that happened in the current and the current time frame and there's the balance here's the next one just has a balance forward of 1 to 30 days past due 31 to 60 days past due and so on so that's probably the default one that most people would use and hopefully we can email that out and make our our follow-up process on the accounts receivable cycle easier let's look at the other two options though you've got the open items so these are open items for the last 365 days so now open items are going to be are gonna let's apply it are gonna be you would think the invoices right that haven't been paid that are open so let's check that out let's print preview that one and we then have now it's showing the detail of the invoice for the last 365 days so there we have that and so here's the invoice of the open item and open item here's the invoice gives you the detail the invoice this one has two of them right so now we have the two items here and it still gives you the amount due down below because this was the amount open amount is 81 and 4 and it gives you the amount due down below so a little bit a little bit different of the statement so but might be a little bit less information so if you have really long statements possibly that might be useful but it's only going you know it's 365 days back and then the last one transaction statement so this will give you the transactions that have happened and possibly you might have customers that want the transaction statement maybe even if it wasn't an invoice even if it was a cash-based system maybe and you know you have your transaction statement that a particular customer may want for example let's preview that one and so we can see here we've got the transaction here's of the invoice total amount and then it gives you the total that received and notice we're not looking here at the amount at past due it doesn't give you that past due amount right down below because it's just looking at the activity that has happened it's not trying to report necessarily on the outstanding balance per se like is normally the case for statements here now we're just showing the activity that has happened so here's the invoice the amount received total and then here's another invoice for this one this one we invoiced and let's see if we have one let's let's increase the range on this one just to see more activity let's go from 010123 to 1230 apply it and now we'll see more range on this one so now if they wanted the transactions for the year we had an invoice we had an invoice we had a credit memo we had an invoice total amount and total received and then here we had an invoice an invoice so that was the activity total amount and then total received gives you the amount and the received and then we had here invoice you know three invoice and then the amount received on those invoices so it gives you kind of the detail it's not giving you still the outstanding balance or the amount that's due over a certain time but again if someone wants the activity that has happened over a range then this is this would be a nice report for that idea but again usually you would think that the reports would mainly be used that you set up in an accrual system possibly using the first balance forward report so that you can set up a system that you follow up on the invoices being able to to not just send out the invoice again as a reminder but give a statement which will allow you to combine multiple invoices into one statement hopefully allowing you to not bother your your clients too much with too many emails and be able to pay you the full amount that's due rather than having two invoices where they might catch one and then not get the other one or something like like that and being able to then do this on it on a systematic process to make it part of basically your accounting cycle a lot more efficiently is the general idea