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# Opening Balance

If you just started using ERPAG, you might have an opening balance that you will like to add to your customers/ suppliers.

You can assign the opening balance in two different ways:

* You can add the opening balance in the same moment when you are importing your customers/ suppliers, just by populating the 'opening balance' column using the copy/paste option from your xls spreadsheet.

```
Administration > Import -customers / Import - suppliers
```

![](/files/-LKRRFR11Y4mUIF_irrT)

* The second way to create an opening balance is directly from the customer or supplier

Once you open the wanted customer /supplier and click on 'create' on the right-hand side of the screen, you will have offered the 'opening balance' on the drop-down menu.

![](/files/-LKRSZt4_w-z2g8gqbxs)

Just type in the wanted amount and confirm.

![](/files/-LKRT5rsauYKTsu9THFD)

You will now see that the 'balance' field is populated.

![](/files/-LKRTDoQoN7UTFsoo5ye)


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