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Invoices

An Invoice is a document sent to your client that indicates the products/services sold by you with the payment information that the client has to make.

Learn everything about invoices in Zoho Inventory from here.

Invoices
Invoice payments

Status of Invoices

Status Description
Draft Invoices when created will be in Draft status before being sent to the customer.
Sent Invoices once sent to the customer with a due date for payment, will be shown as Sent.
Overdue Once the due date for payment is exceeded, it will be shown as Overdue.
Partially Paid When the payment is made for a part of the items in the invoice, it will be shown as Partially Paid.
Paid Once the payment is made by your customer for the invoice raised, it will be shown as Paid.
Void The status of an invoice becomes Void when you have chosen to void it. This comes in handy when you wish to freeze an invoice due to any errors in it and create a fresh one.

Invoice Workflow Diagram

Invoice workflow


Creating a new Invoice

To create a new invoice:

Method 1: Direct invoicing

Invoice creation buttons

New invoice 1

New invoice 2

Pro Tip: Instead of searching for the items from the list, you can select an item by scanning its barcode. When you scan the same barcode more than once, the quantity of the item gets incremented automatically.

Selecting multiple items

New invoice bottom half

Insight: When you create standalone invoices, you can mark them as Shipped to reconcile the physical stock of the underlying items. Learn more.

Method 2: From a sales order

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A new invoice creation form will open up for entering the details for creating a new invoice

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image of the bottom of the invoice creation page

Pro Tip: If you want to save time and quickly convert the sales order to an invoice, you can click the Instant Invoice option under the Invoice tab of the Sales Order. This will skip the edit page and create an invoice instantly. As of now, you cannot create an instant invoice for marketplace orders as well as for serial/batch tracked orders.

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Raising an invoice for multiple sales orders

If you have several sales orders that haven’t been invoiced yet, you can put them all in the same invoice.

Prerequisite: Sales orders that are invoiced together must be associated to the same customer and all sales orders that need to be invoiced must be in Confirmed state.

Include confirmed Sales order option in invoice

Confirmed Sales Orders

Important Note: * This process is applicable only for direct invoicing. * Sales orders that are marked for drop-shipment/backorder or already have an invoice associated, cannot be included.


Creating invoices for items with serial numbers

If you’re raising a invoice for items which have serial numbers, there are few additional steps that need to be done.

Invoice with serial numbers 1

Note: You can enter up to 1000 serial numbers in a transaction.

Bill with serial numbers 2

Bill with serial numbers 3

Note: Similarly, you can follow the above steps to raise invoices for composite items that are serial number tracked.

Insight: If you prefer to track serial/batch numbers in packages, purchase receives and sales return receipts, go to Settings > Preferences > Items. Under Advanced Inventory Tracking, choose Track in packages, purchase receives and return receipts option.


Raising an invoice for batch tracked items

Raising a invoice for batch tracked items is just a few additional steps away.

Select batches option in invoice

Selecting batches from the drop-down

Note: You can enter up to 100 batch numbers for each line item, and a total of 5000 batches per transaction.

Invoice with batches

Insight: If you prefer to track serial/batch numbers in packages, purchase receives and sales return receipts, go to Settings > Preferences > Items. Under Advanced Inventory Tracking, choose Track in packages, purchase receives and return receipts option.


Importing Invoices

To import invoices into your Zoho Inventory account:

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upload file page

Learn in detail the steps to import a file in Zoho Inventory.

Note: You can enable auto generation of Invoice Number for the file you’re about to upload.

Linking Invoices to Sales Orders

You can link your invoices in to its corresponding sales orders in bulk while importing them. To do so,

Link Invoices to Sales Orders 1

Note: The sales orders that are in the Draft status will be moved to Confirmed status automatically when they are linked to invoices.


Export Invoices

To export invoices from your Zoho Inventory account:

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Learn in detail the steps to export data from Zoho Inventory.

Note: The files will be saved to your default downloads folder.


Send Invoices to Customers

To send invoices to your customers by email, select the Email button on top of your invoice page.

Image of the email button on top of the invoice tab

Email

screen shot of the email page

Image of the contacts drop down in email page

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You can associate invoices with sales orders that were created separately in Zoho Inventory.

To do so:

Warning:

  • The customer addressed to must be the same in both documents.
  • The sales order date cannot fall after the bill date.
  • The invoice must contain one or more of the items mentioned in the sales order. They cannot be linked in case of items mismatch.
  • The sales order cannot be void, cancelled, closed, dropshipped or on hold.
Linking invoices to sales order 1 Linking invoices to sales order 2

The selected invoices will be linked to its respective sales order. The linked sales order will be moved to the ‘Confirmed’ status if it is still in draft.


More Actions

Important Note:

Edit Invoice

To edit an invoice:


Saving an invoice as a PDF



Void Invoice

You can use this to nullify the invoice and the status changes to Void.

Note:You cannot void paid invoices. To do this:


Write-off Invoice

You can use this option when the money for a sale made cannot be recovered from a customer. To do this:


Attach Files to an Invoice

To attach a file for reference to your invoice:


Add Item Header

You can now easily categorize items in your invoices and give them a common title using the Item Headers feature. To add an item header: - Go to the Invoices module. - Click the + New button in the top right corner. - Under Item Details, click the drop-down button next to Add Another Line and click Add Item Header.

Add Item Header Option Item Header

The Item Headers can be dragged and placed above any item.


Select the action that you want to perform on an invoice without opening it using the contextual menu on the invoice list page. You can also generate the invoice link and share it with your customer. On clicking the link, they will be able to view the details and make the payment. To do so:

Share invoice link Generate invoice link

Schedule Invoice Emails

You can schedule an invoice that has to be sent to your customer on a set date.

Prerequisite:

To schedule an invoice email:

Schedule Email Icon Schedule Email

You can edit the schedule anytime before the invoice is sent.


Delete Invoice

To delete an invoice:


Multiwarehouse operations related to Invoices

If you’ve enabled multiple warehouse management for your organization, you’ll have additional capabilities when creating invoices. To know more, click here.


Recording Invoice Payments

You can record payments or charge your customer made manually.

Image of the record payments button and drop down highlighting both the options

Recording payments manually

To do so:

record payments page

You can also choose to send an automated thank you note to the customer by checking on the box near the Send a “thank you” note for this payment field.

Charging a customer

To do so:

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Important Note: The Charge customer option is available to you, only if you have integrated with the payment gateway that’s available in your customer’s country.


Payments Received

The payments you receive for your transactions in Zoho Inventory can be viewed below your invoice information when you select a particular invoice.

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You can also view the payments received for a particular invoice by going to the Invoices tab. Open a Paid invoice and scroll down to view the payment details. These can also be edited or deleted from here. Clicking on the payment number # directly opens the receipt in the Payments Received tab.

Details on a payment receipt

Whenever you receive an online payment or when you manually record a payment in Zoho Inventory, the corresponding receipt will be displayed as the Payments Received under the Invoice. You can also view them separately inside your integrated Zoho Books organization.

The following details will be included,

Managing your payment receipts

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Importing and exporting invoice payments

Importing invoice payments

To import invoice payment receipts into your Zoho Inventory account:

Menu drop down

upload file

Learn in detail the steps to import a file in Zoho Inventory.

Exporting invoice payments

To export invoice payment receipts from your Zoho Inventory account:

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Learn in detail the steps to export data from Zoho Inventory.

Note: The file will be saved to your default downloads folder.


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