Adjusting the invoicing settings
Menu Invoicing4 min read
Cog of the navigation bar › Invoicing settings. Click Save at the bottom of the window.
The General tab
- The tabsGeneral and Reminders.
- Default bankthe financial institution offered on new invoices.
- Registration feean amount added to the subscriptions invoice, with its product account. Once, on joining invoices it to the season's new members, and to those who have been reactivated; Every season, to all members invoices it to everyone, on their first invoice of the season. Never to companies.
- Paper invoicea fee added to the invoices sent by post: a "Paper invoice fee" line, with its amount and its product account.
- Invoice templatethe PDF's layout, with a preview (see "Choosing the layout").
- Numberingthe Starting number of the invoices. It locks as soon as an invoice exists, even a draft. Invoices and credit notes share the same sequence of numbers.
- ProrataBillable months (8 to 12): the number of months a subscription season covers, for the Billable months prorata rule. Grace day threshold (0 to 28): the last day of the month when an arrival still counts for the whole month, for the Full month rule; 0 turns the threshold off.
The Reminders tab
- The delays and the formatPayment term (days) sets the due date: the invoice date plus this term, 30 days by default. Extra days leaves a margin after the due date: an invoice only receives its first reminder once the due date and this margin have passed. Interval between reminders (days) separates two reminder levels. Reminder format: Consolidated list, a single reminder per debtor covering all their overdue invoices, or Per invoice, one reminder for each invoice.
- Reminder feesEnable fees, then the amount of each level (R1 fee, R2 fee, R3 fee, Formal notice) and their Product account. The fees are added to the invoice as a "Reminder fees" line.
Choosing the layout
Change template… in the General tab opens the choice of layout.
- With QR-bill and Cashshow the preview with or without the QR payment part. This choice is not saved: the QR part depends on the invoice's account. These two buttons only appear with a Swiss account.
- The four layoutsAddress on right, Address on left, and the same with the sender on one line: Inline sender + address on right and Inline sender + address on left. The chosen one is framed.
- The previewthe chosen layout, large, with sample data.
- Selectkeeps the layout. Then save the settings.
A one-off invoice can take another layout with the pencil of the Template field (see "Creating an invoice").
Customising the texts
Cog › Billing texts: the emails sent to members, the club's internal messages and the labels of the PDFs.
- Member emailsthe emails of the invoices and reminders, each in two texts: the subject and the body.
- Internal notificationsthe messages sent to the club's people in charge, such as the summary of reminders.
- PDF documentsthe titles and labels printed on invoices, reminders and statements.
- The text chosenits name and its use, for example the body of the email sent with an invoice sent by hand.
- Insert a field and SaveInsert a field places a piece of data that is filled in when sending, such as the member's name or the invoice's subject. Save keeps the text.
- The editorthe text, with its formatting. The fields are written in braces, for example
{member.lastname}or{invoice.subject}.
An invoice goes out with the Invoicing text; sending the subscriptions uses Subscriptions, a test or event invoice the texts for invoicing a test or an event. Each of the four reminder levels has its own text: First reminder, Second reminder, Third reminder and Formal notice. A changed text appears in orange in the list, with the Modified badge, and offers Restore default.