Invoicing

Project Invoicing collects invoice data and transfers it to Invoicing for final editing and processing. Project Invoicing customizes invoice addresses, invoice layout, net amounts and/or gross amounts. Provisions are also made for holdbacks. After the invoice details are transferred to Invoicing, the invoices are modified, finalized and printed . Finally LN sends the invoice revenues to the Project Revenue in Project Accounting and to Financials. When you post an invoice, Invoicing sends its status to Invoicing.

Installment invoicing is used to generate and control installments and progress invoice specifications. Installments are partial contract amounts that you send at regular intervals.

LN allows you to link the project shipments to the installments. In some projects, the business partner releases a shipment when an installment is paid.

Progress Invoice is an invoice type that resembles the Installment type. In this procedure, the installment amount depends on the project's progress and the element's sales rates. Progress invoice specifications involve invoicing partial contract amounts at agreed intervals, for example, every four weeks. You then release this data to the Invoicing module.

You can base the unit rate invoice on the sales price of an element or an activity. The amount to be invoiced equals the sales price multiplied by the physical progress quantity.

You can maintain and control the invoicing of cost plus projects and extensions in Project. Invoicing amounts are based on the actual costs plus a markup, or the sales price/rate for the product or the service extended to the customer. LN gathers the billing amounts and quantities based on the effort spent on cost reimbursement and time and material contract lines. You can create a business partner's invoice only when you incur the actual costs.

Delivery-based invoices are based on the sales amounts of the contract deliverables. Delivery-based invoice specifications involve invoicing the customer, based on the shipment or delivery of the service to the customer.

Advance payment requests are amounts paid by the business partner before the project starts. You can use these amounts to buy, for example, project materials. Advance payment requests can be made for all of the invoice types. If several customers are involved, the advance must be linked to one of the contract lines. You can link an advance to an element or activity. If the invoice type of a project is Installments, you can also link the advance to an installment. You can use this installment to settle the advance. If the advance is not linked to an installment, settle the advance in the next invoice or define a liquidation percentage on the contract line.