Invoice

Your request for payment. Sending one books revenue and a receivable; the customer pays through the hosted link.

In Solo Superstars

Create one under Invoices with line items, tax, and due date. Sending it emails the customer a hosted page with a payment link and posts the entry. Until sent, it is a draft and touches nothing.

Shop orders create invoices automatically with origin "shop"; you never type those.

Example

Send a $1,200 invoice for services: debit 1100 Accounts Receivable 1,200, credit 4010 Services 1,200.

Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.

Also called

  • bill (to a customer)
  • sales invoice

Related

  • Invoice status — Where an invoice is in its life: draft, sent, paid, or cancelled. Overdue is not a status — it is a sent invoice past its due date.
  • Quote — A price proposal. Looks like an invoice but books nothing until the customer accepts and you convert it.
  • Accounts receivable — Invoices you have sent that customers have not paid yet. An asset, because the money is coming.
  • Payment — Money received against an invoice, by card, bank transfer, check, cash or other method. Clears the receivable.
  • Payment link — The hosted page a customer opens from an invoice email to pay by card. Powered by your connected Stripe account.

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