Sources of invoices

The sources of invoices are:

  • Manually-entered

  • Interfaced from an outside source

  • Shipment-related (created in the Order Entry application)

  • Recurring invoice

  • Customer returns (credit memo from the Order Entry application)

  • Activity (created in the Project Accounting application)

The Billing application assigns a value to each invoice when you create it, indicating the source. This table shows the value that indicates each invoice source:

Value Invoice Source
M Manually created invoice
I Interfaced invoice
S Shipment-related invoice
C Recurring invoice
R Credit memo created from a return
A Invoice created in the Project Accounting application

Kinds of invoices

Invoices are either debit or credit memos. This table shows which category each type of invoice belongs to:

Invoice category Type of invoice
Debit memo Shipment-related invoices
Interfaced invoices
Manually entered invoices
Recurring invoices
Credit memo Credit memos
Credit memos created from returns

Regardless of how they are created, all invoices go through some part of the invoicing process. You can process them individually, in batches, or both.