AR Aging

What is this page about: Light tracks AR aging at the customer level and organisation-wide, so you can see how overdue customer balances are at a glance. This page explains where to find the customer aging widget and the Aged Accounts Receivable report, how the aging buckets work, how to drill into a bucket's invoices, and answers common questions about the two views.

# On this page

• What is AR aging in Light?
• Where can I find AR aging in Light?
• What do the AR aging buckets mean?
• How do I drill into an aging bucket?
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Related Articles

# What is AR aging in Light?

AR aging (accounts receivable aging) is how Light tracks how overdue a customer's open invoices are. Light tracks AR aging at the customer level, with a customer aging widget that breaks open balances into standard aging buckets, and offers an organisation-wide Aged Accounts Receivable report for a company-wide view.

# Where can I find AR aging in Light?

# Per-customer view: the customer aging widget

The per-customer aging view in Light is the customer aging widget on each customer's overview page:

1. Go to Revenue & Invoicing → Customers
2. Open a customer
3. The Overview tab shows the aging widget

# Organisation-wide view: the Aged Accounts Receivable report

For an organisation-wide view, Light also provides an Aged Accounts Receivable report:

1. Go to Planning & Reports → Reports
2. Open the Aged Accounts Receivable report

The Aged Accounts Receivable report is generated per entity, as of a date you choose (defaulting to today), in either local or group currency. It summarises open balances by customer across Current, 1-30 Days, 31-60 Days, and Older than 60 Days columns, with totals. An invoice-level detail view is available and can be exported from Light as CSV. A matching Aged Accounts Payable report exists on the AP side for tracking what your company owes.

# What do the AR aging buckets mean?

The customer aging widget categorises open invoices into 5 aging buckets:

The widget's 5 buckets are a more granular breakdown of the Aged Accounts Receivable report's 4 columns: the report's Older than 60 Days column corresponds to the widget's 61-90 days and 90+ days buckets combined.

# How do I drill into an aging bucket?

In Light, clicking any bucket in the customer aging widget opens the Sales invoices list, pre-filtered to that aging range and that customer. This is the fastest way to see exactly which invoices make up a given bucket's balance.

# Frequently Asked Questions

# What's the difference between the customer aging widget and the Aged Accounts Receivable report?

The customer aging widget shows one customer's open balances in 5 buckets on that customer's Overview tab. The Aged Accounts Receivable report shows open balances across all customers in an entity, using 4 columns, and can be exported as CSV.

# Does Light have an Aged Accounts Payable report too?

Yes. A matching Aged Accounts Payable report exists on the AP side, generated the same way as the Aged Accounts Receivable report.

# Can I change the "as of" date on the Aged Accounts Receivable report?

Yes. The report can be generated as of any date you choose; it defaults to today.

# Can I export AR aging data from Light?

Yes. The Aged Accounts Receivable report has an invoice-level detail view that can be exported from Light as a CSV file.

# Related Articles

• Accounts Receivable Overview
• Tracking Payments and Outstanding Balances
• Customer Credits
• Reporting Overview
• AP Aging