Basics to Best Practice Masterclass #10 - Running and Troubleshooting Invoicing

 

Sarah Kelsey dives into how to understand, run, and troubleshoot your invoice runs to compile your clients' net charge, focussing on:

  • Understanding the prerequisites you must perform beforehand to ensure your invoices run successfully
  • Differentiating between incomplete and unconfirmed bookings
  • Understanding why bookings become incomplete and unconfirmed
  • Finding and confirming incomplete bookings in bulk before running invoicing
  • Finding and confirming unconfirmed bookings in bulk before running invoicing
  • Understanding buyers and that clients are self-funded by default
  • Attaching buyers to client's records in the People tab
  • Creating and attaching new buyers to an individual client
  • Attaching buyers to an individual client from their important contacts
  • Attaching global buyers to multiple clients
  • Creating new organisations for local authorities, which can then be established into global buyers
  • Establishing organisations as global buyers inside your environment
  • Choosing a funding strategy for a client's service contracts to ensure the right buyer receives each invoice
  • Splitting a client's service contracts between multiple buyers by a percentage
  • Adding credit and debit transactions to a client's record for additional charges and credits
  • Running an invoice run from scratch and understanding the default options
  • Choosing a suitable name and date range for invoice runs
  • Filtering by service contract types, buyers, and clients, if needed
  • Understanding when to separate invoices per team, include bookings, and include transactions
  • Understanding when to automatically create credit notes for credit transactions inside an invoice run
  • Checking if there are any unconfirmed bookings before creating an invoice run
  • Understanding the anatomy and layout of the invoice run screen
  • Finding the options and filters chosen for an invoice run once it's finished calculating
  • Understanding and manually adjusting individual line items
  • Checking your bookings and rates to ensure they pulled into the invoice correctly
  • Unlocking bookings to make changes after the start time of the booking
  • Making manual adjustments to invoices, only after finishing your recalculations
  • Adding custom line items, additional bookings, and additional transactions to your invoices
  • Recalculating invoice runs and individual invoices to pull through the latest data
  • Issuing numbers and process dates to your invoice run and individual invoices
  • Exporting invoice runs into different formats, including PDF and Excel
  • Creating number schemes to customise how your invoice numbers look
  • Creating invoice run templates you can reuse to run your invoices in the same way every time
  • Creating tax types for VAT and other taxable activities
  • Applying tax types to service contract types to ensure they pull through into invoices
  • Configuring your invoice settings per-team and the master settings as a fallback
  • Differentiating between the page footer and invoice footer
  • Understanding how to use the editable period as a grace period before the invoice run locks
  • Utilising the display density to change how the invoice appears and how detailed invoices are
  • Writing an invoice notification template for the message inside emailed invoices
  • Delivering invoice runs in bulk via email and print
  • Locking and unlocking invoice runs to ensure safety between making changes after issuing
  • Understanding what happens when you recalculate invoice runs after issuing
  • Amending your organisation's roster thresholds that determine if bookings are auto-confirmed
  • Marking individual invoices as fully and partially paid, as needed