Countries/counties/postcodes (CS20400S)

This topic gives you information about the elements that you find in this window in Visma.net ERP, such as fields, field values, buttons, and check boxes.

You use this window to store information about countries and states in which your organisation has operations, customers, or suppliers. Information provided here is used for defining branches of your organisation and creating customer and supplier accounts.

Countries are identified by a two-letter country code in accordance with ISO 3166. Country information includes the phone code for the country, input masks for postal codes and VAT registration IDs (if VAT registration is required), and information about country administrative units (states or provinces).

You can also track whether VAT registration is required in the country.
If you set up input masks and regular expressions for postal codes, users can avoid occasional input errors.

For more information, see About input masks and About input validation options.

What to do from this window

• Define an EU country as an Intrastat country

The top part

You use this area to select a country and to view or edit its information.

Element	Description
Country ID	The unique two-letter country ID. The list of countries contains the two-letter country codes in accordance with international standard ISO 3166.
Country	The complete name of the country. This field supports the multi-language functionality, where you can translate the entered text to multiple languages. For more information, see:About multi-language support
Input mask	Optional. A mask that will be used to validate postcodes on input.
Validation regular expression	Optional. A regular expression that will be used to validate postcodes on input.
IBAN length	The number of characters in the IBAN number.
Validate IBAN	A validation of the IBAN number.
Use postcode register	A check box to initiate the use of the country's postcode register if available. Not all companies has a postcode register installed. You may also build up your own post code register in the Postcodes tab.
Instrastat country	This check box indicates if the selected country is obliged to the Intrastat reporting system (EU member states). Note! You will get a warning in Intrastat reporting country when you select this check box and you have to save before you can select this country in the Intrastat reporting country.
Intrastat reporting country	This field indicates which country are to receive the statical information required by the Intrastat agreement. This applies to countries that are autonomous constituent countries as for example the Azores which will report to Portugal. Note! The lookup only displays countries that have the Intrastat country checked.

The Counties tab

This table in this tab holds the states or counties of the country where your organisation has operations, suppliers, or customers.
You can also view or edit this information.

Column	Description
County ID	The unique ID of the administrative unit of the county. The maximum string length is 50 characters. Use the abbreviations commonly used in the specific country.
County name	The complete name of the administrative unit, which is a string of up to 30 characters.

The Postcodes tab

Column	Description
Postcode ID	The unique ID of the city. The maximum string length is 20 characters.
City	The complete name of the city, which is a string of up to 50 characters.

The Customer validation tab

In this tab you select which fields are to be filled in when entering information for customers. It will be possible to save the customer without filling in the fields, but that will produce documents with insufficient information.

Column	Description
Address 1	A check box that will validate if the customer's first line of address is filled in when saving a new customers.
Postcode	A check box that will validate if the customer's postcode is filled in when saving a new customers.
City	A check box that will validate if the customer's city is filled in when saving a new customers.
Email	A check box that will validate if the customer's email is filled in when saving a new customers.