Legacy Debt Payment (舊帳收款)

Also known as: Pre-system debt collection · Legacy Debt · Pre-adoption receivable

Recording payment for debts a customer accumulated before adopting MeiYe Zhan. Counts toward cash collection but NOT toward performance — prevents inflated performance via backfilling pre-system history.

Full definition

Legacy Debt Payment (舊帳收款) is the record type for collecting money a customer owed you from before you started using MeiYe Zhan. For example, a customer owed NT$5,000 back when you kept track on paper cards, and now that you're on the system you want to log that the debt was paid. But since the original service happened before the system was in place, there's no matching treatment record for it, so this payment shouldn't count toward the performance you've earned since going live. The system marks these records as a Legacy Debt collection and sets them not to count toward performance, keeping them out of your performance figures right from the start so your numbers stay accurate.

Why this concept matters

New shops onboarding often have unsettled paper-era debts. If "backfill" entries counted toward performance: (1) beauticians would collect commission on revenue they already earned long ago — shop loses money; (2) dashboards would show artificially inflated post-launch performance, misleading management; (3) monthly trend charts would show fake startup spikes. Cleanly excluding "backfilled legacy debt" preserves both commercial integrity and analytical accuracy.

How MeiYe Zhan handles it

From day one, MeiYe Zhan treats a legacy-debt payment as a special kind of record and never counts it toward performance — not on the dashboard performance numbers, not on the customer page, not in the attendance payroll calculation. That way nobody earns commission just because you collected an old balance the customer owed before you started using the system. The only place a legacy-debt payment shows up is in the monthly store revenue report: depending on your setting, the cash collected is filed under either "product revenue" or "package revenue" (most owners treat it as package income) so your books stay clean. But in that same report, the beautician performance column for a legacy-debt payment is always zero.

Concrete example

Shop adopts MeiYe Zhan April 2026; client A owes NT$3,000 from prior paper bookkeeping. Shop records "Legacy Debt Payment NT$3,000, paid 2026-05-01, cash". Client account: +NT$3,000 settled. Shop cash inflow: +NT$3,000. Beautician performance: +0. Dashboard performance card: +0. Month-end reports show this NT$3,000 in product/package columns (per policy setting) but the beautician performance table strictly remains 0.

Related terms

Option A Performance Recognition

MeiYe Zhan's revenue-recognition model: performance is credited to the beautician on the day the customer pays cash. Unpaid balances are credited only when paid back later.

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