Direct processing of invoices

Direct processing of invoices implies the automatic composition, printing, and posting of a sales invoice. However, before LN performs these actions, you must manually set the line status to Confirmed.

You can use direct processing of invoices to generate individual sales invoices for these types of invoicing data:

  • Sales orders
    LN produces the invoice immediately after you release a sales order from Sales to Invoicing.
  • Debit notes and credit notes
    Direct processing starts in Financials. For details, refer to Cash application procedure.
  • Manual sales invoices
    Direct processing starts as described in To process manual sales invoices.

Prerequisites

In the Invoicing Parameters (cisli0100m000) session, set up this data:

  • A default billing request template and billing request addition for the invoicing data type.
  • The device to which the invoices can be printed.
  • For sales order types for which you want to use direct invoicing, select the Collect Order check box in the Sales Order Types (tdsls0594m000) session.
Direct processing

Prerequisites

  • Manually change the line status to Confirmed.

During direct processing, LN performs these actions:

  • Composes the invoice.
  • Prints the invoice according to the default template addition, to the device defined for direct processing in the Invoicing Parameters (cisli0100m000) session.
  • Posts the invoice amounts to Financials.
  • Changes the invoicing data status to Posted.