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The Collector Home page provides a snap shot of information for vendors, such as:
Quick Links - Provides links to areas of the Collector module where activities are performed
News and Training - Contains information about IPP, training, and other news of interest to Collector users
Overdue Invoices Listing - Displays the invoice number, agency, due date and amount of overdue invoices
Collections 5-Day Forecast Report - Lists IPP agency invoices assigned a scheduled to pay date if the agency has sent an invoice update file to IPP
The tabs at the top of the Collector Home page link to the functions in the Collector module. Access to tabs depends on your role and permissions. If you cannot access a tab that you need to complete your work in IPP, contact your Collector Administrator to change your permissions.
Orders tab — Displays open, closed, and exception POs, and the Create Invoice, Create Credit Memo, PO Batches, Get Status, and Add Filters buttons.
Blanket POs tab — Displays open, closed, exception BPOs, the Create Invoice, Create Credit Memo, and the Add Filters buttons.
Invoices tab — Displays various invoice statuses; provides functionality to upload eFile invoices, allows Collector users to clone invoices and create credit memos, and provides the Create Invoice, Create Credit Memo, Get Status, Add Filters, and Upload eFile buttons.
Payments tab — Displays payments and allows remittance download.
Reports tab — Displays Aging Detail and Overdue Invoices reports.
The following links are available at the top of each page of the Collector module:
About - Displays the current software release for IPP.
Advanced Search - Opens the Advanced Search page. See Search topic below for a second way to access Advanced Search.
Preferences - Opens to User Information, Time Zone Settings, Display Preferences, and Notifications Schedule.
Help - Opens the context-sensitive help topics.
The Quick Links panel displays links that are available to you based on your role and permissions assigned by the Collector Administrator. These links take you to the pages where you can view documents and perform activities related to your role in the Collector module.
The sidebar status links provide access to Invoice, Payment, Blanket PO, and Order pages. Sidebar status links are displayed in relation to the permissions assigned to your role.
The left side of the Home page provides search fields for Quick Search and Advanced Search. To display all POs, Invoices, or Payments, enter a wildcard such as percent(%) in the Quick Search field or to display a specific PO, invoice or payment, enter the entire number.