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Walkthrough: Sale to Invoice
Turn a customer sale into a clear quotation, invoice, fulfillment record, payment expectation, and reportable transaction.
The sale-to-invoice workflow is used when a customer needs a formal invoice or when the organization sells through account, quotation, delivery, or finance review instead of a quick counter sale.
Before You Start
- You can access Sales, Customers, Quotations, or Invoices.
- The customer record exists or you can create it.
- Items, quantities, warehouse, prices, taxes, discounts, and payment terms are known.
- Stock availability or fulfillment rules are understood.
- Any approval for discount, credit sale, or price override is complete where required.
Steps
- Open Sales and create or select the customer.
- Create a quotation if the customer needs an offer before confirming the sale.
- Add items or services, quantity, unit, warehouse, price, discount, tax, and notes.
- Review total, validity, payment terms, delivery details, and attachments.
- Convert to invoice or create an invoice once the sale is confirmed.
- Confirm invoice status, due date, customer contact, and delivery or fulfillment link.
- Record payment if received immediately, or leave invoice outstanding according to terms.
- Check reports or customer history to confirm the invoice appears correctly.
Success Check
- Customer details are correct.
- Invoice has the correct items, quantity, tax, discount, payment terms, and total.
- Stock reservation, deduction, or fulfillment status follows your organization's process.
- Payment status is clear: unpaid, partially paid, paid, overdue, or credited.
- Finance and sales reports show the invoice in the expected period.
Common Mistakes
- Creating duplicate customer records.
- Using the wrong warehouse or tax setting.
- Converting an outdated quotation into an invoice.
- Applying discount or credit without approval.
- Recording payment against the wrong invoice.
Support tip: Include customer name, quotation number, invoice number, payment reference, expected total, actual total, and visible status.
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