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Time and cost together/separately

Do you want to group time and cards, cost cards, and milestones together on the same invoice? Some clients pay labor invoices more quickly than expense invoices or vice-versa. This is often done when one or the other requires more scrutiny. Billing for time/expenses/milestones separately may help your organization get paid faster.

This setting only affects invoice creation. You can always go into an invoice after it is created and join time/cost/milestones together as you wish.

The name here is misleading as it also covers milestones.

Client*

Create an invoice for all engagements under this client. If there were five engagements then all billable items would be brought onto a single invoice.

PO Number*

Create an invoice for all engagements with matching PO numbers. If you have three engagements with the same PO number, all billable items are brought onto a single invoice for all three.

Engagement

Create a separate invoice for each engagement. Individual engagements have all billable items on a single invoice.

Project

Create a separate invoice for each individual project. If you are using milestones with this selection, it is a good idea to make sure that milestone is associated with a project. If the milestone is not associated with a project, we'll create a separate invoice for it at the engagement level instead.

Tip
  • Currency - we cannot group engagements that have different currencies because multi-currency on a single invoice would not make much sense. How would you combine euros and dollars on a single invoice?
  • Cost Center - we group across cost centers because the integration sends over a single AR transaction to your accounting system. As cost centers can have different AR mappings we do not group in this case.
  • Content - both engagements must be invoicing the same things. For example, time + cost together. You can't have one invoicing time alone and the other invoicing time + cost.
  • Client - engagements must be for the same client. May arise if you are using sub-clients.
  • Invoicing Culture (unusual) - invoicing culture determines how an invoice should be displayed given the currency it is in. For example, many countries use the Euro. However, each country displays dates and numbers in a different way. If one engagement is set to display numbers as #,###.## and another as #.###.## - then we would not know how to display numbers properly.
  • Service Contract - service period contracts create an invoice for their date range only



Include receipts when creating PDF invoicesShould receipts be printed on invoices by default?
Apply available balance to invoice amount upon invoice creationIf a prepayment balance exists, automatically apply as much of the balance as possible to the current invoice.

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