Invoice interface

After you add and release actual sales data, rather than directly creating invoice records, you can create invoice interface records. These records are interfaced to the Billing application when you run Billing Interface (BL520), where additional edits are performed before the actual invoice records are created.

Invoice processing

When you generate invoice interface records, one invoice is created for each customer and ship to number for a cycle date. In addition:

The invoice number is automatically assigned. The first invoice created starts with the invoice prefix defined on Company Options (FR01.1) and the number 1.
Each of the sales entry charges is a line item on the invoice. Charges appear in the order that they appear on the sales entry.
For a note-based charge, there are separate invoice lines for the interest and the principal.
The released actual sales record is updated to a closed status after the interface invoice is created.
The closed status on the actual sales record will prevent an interface invoice from being recreated from the same sales record on a subsequent run of this program.
The interface invoices are created as billing invoices when you run the Billing interface program.
A report lists all interface invoices that were created.