Company Settings for Sales and Invoicing



As a rule, invoicing routines vary greatly from company to company. This module is therefore designed to allow the thorough modification of how these routines are carried out in the Sales and Invoicing module. The transition from order to invoice with approval routines and printouts is particularly central here.

General

In the General tab you will find check boxes regarding order status. These are particularly important if the program is being used by several users, e.g. one registers orders while another registers invoices.

Do not print orders before they have reached status 'Processing completed': Leave un-ticked to allow for printing of orders before you finished processing them.

Do not invoice before 'Ready for transfer' (quotation) or 'Ready for invoiving' (order): By activating the settting, you will not be able to transfer a quotation to order, or an order to invoice unless the check boxes 'Ready for transfer' (quotation) or 'Ready for invoicing' (order) have been checked. The 'ready for invoicing' status depends on how you apply the Ready to invoicing will be updated by printing... function in the Printouts tab.

Do not invoice before all products on an order have been delivered: Leave this box un-ticked if you want to be able to invoice even though the order contains items that have not yet been delivered. You may apply this settings for customers where you have agreed not to invoice before the full order content has been delivered or if you do not want to use delivery registration.

You can allow the company to reserve products for an order from a specific purchase by selecting The company reserves purchases for customers and The company reserves stock items for customers.

If The company uses service invoices you will have opportunities to print out a job description for an order and printout a service invoice, with or without product lines.

The company uses subscription invoicing should be selected if you would like to be able to easily generate invoices for your customers that have subscribed to a service or regular delivery of your products. The functionality is available only as an add on product in certain program versions. Read more about Subscription Invoicing.

Any limitations when the products are not in stock: Here you can determine in how far you will allow for the registration of larger quantities of products than what is in stock. You may like to display a warning to alarm the user registering the order that the product is not in stock.

Printouts

Here you can specify settings that determine how your sales reports are to look:

Enter the No. of copies (in addition to the original invoice) and which Invoice copy you want to print out in the sales an invoicing module.

Invoice copy when invoicing: Select which report should be used when printing invoice copies during invoicing.

The field 'Picked' should be updated by printing: This setting applies to the Picked field on the order. Select Delivery note or Picking list depending on what is best suited to your business.

Ready for invoicing will be updated when printing: Select Delivery note or Picking list depending on what best suits your business. If you would like to invoice as soon as the picking list has been printed it would make sense for you to select to update to 'Ready for invoicing' status after printing the picking list.

Language in Sales and Invoicing can be selected if you want to print out invoices in a different language. The language will be available as an option in the Sales and Invoicing module and Quotation in the Miscellaneous tab when you press the Reports button.

Sort when printing several orders: When printing out several orders it might be useful to select a certain sorting order. You could sort by customer no., for example, instead of by order no., which is the default sorting setting. If you use subscription invoicing you might want to sort by subscription no.

You can print out the pick list in two ways, either Sorted in the same order as they were entered in the order or Sorted by warehouse and by location in the warehouse. The latter can be very useful in achieving efficient picking in the warehouse.

If you always want an on-screen print preview before you print invoices, you can activate this by selecting the Test printout when sending invoice to screen check box.

If you do not tick Display VAT on Sales and Invoicing printouts this field will not be displayed.

Note! If you remove the tick here, please ensure that this concurs with the rules in your company.

Price/Discount

Here you select the rule that will apply for prices and discounts when registering products for an order.

If you select Register price excl. VAT on order lines (net invoicing) the price is shown without VAT on the product lines.

If you want to override the discount hierarchy, you should tick The highest discount overrules the discount hierarchy. You can of course have just one discount on an order, but you can also add quantity discounts if you tick Quantity discount is in addition to other discounts.

The cost price should include 'Expenses' from the Product card in addition to the Purchase Price: The option is only available if you have selected Purchase Price as the Basis for cost price in the company settings for products, in the Price processing tab. If you select the option, the cost price for quotation and order/invoice will be based on purchase price and the expenses in the Expenses field in the product card, in the Price tab.

Export

You can automatically export information files from the program and the settings for this can be found here.

If you want to export orders from the program, you must select Use file export and select the export format. You can choose whether the export is to occur by printing out a Picking list, Delivery note or Invoice, and in the Catalogue field you state where the file should be saved.

Create a PDF quotation copy when transferring to order: The transferred quotation will be saved as a PDF document. The quotation copy can be opened from the order/invoice.

Create a PDF invoice copy when invoicing: Save a PDF copy of the invoice when invoicing. If you have selected the option, you will be able to access the copies from the Sales/Invoicing and Contact modules.

Other

Tab for other settings:

In Delivery period on product line you select whether you want to display the delivery week or the delivery date on reports. You can also add a Fixed text, Sales/Invoicing. The text itself is retrieved from the Properties register. This text will then be displayed on invoice printouts.

From the Our reference drop-down list you decide how Our reference will be selected when creating sales orders.

A product can be added to all orders as they are created by registering the product number in the Product that shall be added to all new orders. This could for example be used if you always add a dispatching fee.

You can mark the Inherit project from product module checkbox if you wish.

Factoring: The option is only available if you have activated the factoring function from the ledger settings: View - Settings - Accounting - Customer & Supplier Ledger. By clicking on the Factoring button you can add information about your factoring company. Read more about factoring here.


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Company Settings

Sales and Invoicing

Factoring

Subscription Invoicing

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