Use this function to manage customer invoicing outside the typical sales cycle.
In this context, you do not manage the order or the receipt note for the stock issue (etc.). When issuing the invoice, the data required for accounting is recorded.

As for customer tracking (open item statements, reminders, payment management, etc.), the process is the same for invoices that come from the complete cycle or that come from entering a BP invoice.

  • In this document, the term 'invoice' has a generic meaning: It can be an invoice, a credit note, a debit note, or a credit memo.
  • Invoices generated from recurring invoices cannot be deleted if they are used as a reference template (first recurring invoice/original recurring invoice).
    In addition, the invoice must not be changed if it is also used as reference invoice.
  • For the Fixed Assets module:
    When the SALINV - Sale invoice to generate parameter (AAS chapter, FAS group) is set to Yes, a BP customer invoice is generated automatically after validating the Asset disposal with a Sales reason. When the issue applies to a main asset and its components, only one customer invoice is generated with as many lines as there are sold assets.
    Each asset concerned can be identified using its reference displayed at the level of the Comment field in the invoice line.
    The values of some fields taken from the information entered during the asset disposal cannot be modified: The accounting date, the currency and customer of the Header section and the amount, as well as all tax elements of the Lines section.

Specificities linked to customer intercompany invoices

If the company is set up for intercompany invoices, a reference to a target company, site, and the dimensions for each line can be entered.

If the target company does not match the source company, the general ledger accounts associated with the target company will be used along with the target company dimensions.
The following occurs if the target company entered on the line is not equal to the source company:

  • The first account column is linked to the COA of the target company main general ledger.
  • For the subsequent COA columns, an entry is made only if there is a COA for this ledger type in the accounting core model of the target company.  If not, then the column will be skipped. 
  • Only the dimension type codes associated with the displayed/entered ledgers can be entered. If the ledger is not displayed, then the dimensions for the target company cannot be entered. 
    SEEWARNINGAn error will occur if dimensions are required for the analytical ledger and the source company does not include an analytical ledger, but the target company does.
  • For the column name, the COA name of the source company ledger will always display even if it is different than the target company.

When the invoice is posted, separate journals are generated in the source and target companies using the designated debit and credit accounts from Intercompany account mapping.

Prerequisites

SEEREFERTTO Refer to documentation Implementation

Limitations

When the invoice is entered in tax-inc. mode and an additional or special tax code is present (entered or automatically loaded from the account), the amounts of the three tax levels must be entered manually.

Deleting intercompany invoices is allowed only if the SIVSUP - Invoice/journal deletion parameter (TC chapter, INV group) is set to "Yes" for all companies (source and target).

Screen management

Posting customer BP invoices involves three tabs containing the characteristics of each part of the invoice body.

Header

First, the key accounting information of the invoice must be entered:

  • the site,
  • The invoice type which determines the document category (invoice/credit memo/debit note/credit note), the automatic journal, the journal and journal type that will be used during document posting
    SEEREFERTTO See the documentation on the customer invoice type.
  • The document number (where a manual numbering range is authorized)
  • the document posting date, by default that of its receipt in the folder,
  • The customer identification code and the control account on saving the document

You can define:

  • the invoice header,
  • the invoice lines.

After this information is entered, you can Post the invoice to accounting.

Intercompany invoicing example

One company (source) bills installation services for itself and another company (target). A portion of the invoice is revenue for the source company and the other portion of the invoice is revenue due to the target company from the source company. 
When the invoice is entered in the system, the invoice lines in source Company A is as follows:

 Company

 Site

Legal

Amount

Description

 B

 B1

 REVENUE - INSTALL

 300.00

 Using account in Company B

 A

 A1

 REVENUE - INSTALL

 700.00

 Using account in Company A

The invoice is entered in the source. When the invoice is posted in Company A, the resulting journal entries are as follows:

Company A

 Site

Legal

Debit

Credit

Description

 A1

 REVENUE

 

 700.00

 

 A1

DUE TO COMPANY B

 

 300.00

Source due to

 A1

 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

 1,000.00

 

 

Company B

 Site

Legal

Debit

Credit

Description

 B1

 REVENUE

 

 300.00

 

 B1

 DUE FROM COMPANY A

 300.00

 

Source due from

Tab Header

Invoice characteristics

Some fields in the header are used to complete the invoice:

  • Amount -tax and Amount +tax fields
    By default, entering an amount in either field is optional. This is controlled by the HEAAMTBPC – Cust. inv. header amt. ctrl parameter (TRS chapter, INV group).
    When you enter amounts on the invoice lines, these amounts automatically display in the corresponding fields on the Header. If the amounts are different, a warning message displays by default: Totals different from header. Use the WRNMSGBPC – Customer inv. warning msg. parameter (TRS chapter , INV group) to disable the display of this message.
  • The link between a credit memo and the original invoice using this invoice number, or the link between the credit memo and the credit memo request number from the customer, etc.
  • The default analysis for this invoice is then applied to the payments for the BP accounts:
    You can define the default dimensions in the invoice header.

See the documentation on Default dimensions.

Open item characteristics

Use the remaining fields to define the open items in the invoice with respect to payment management (pay-by BP identification, payment conditions), to the open item statement management, and to the reminder process.

Once the invoice has been saved, you can click Open items action to view the open items and the status of the related payment.

Tab Lines

The grid in this section is used to characterize each of the invoice lines from an accounting point of view:

Nature

If the account is subject to dimensional accounting, it is necessary to define its nature. At general accounts level, it is possible to define a nature linked automatically to an account. The nature field cannot then be modified.
SEEREFERTTO See the documentation on General accounts for further information.
On the other hand, if a nature screen has been defined, it is possible to choose a different analytical nature conforming to the screen.

Analytical dimensions.

If the accounting amount is not distributed over several analytical dimensions, the allocation field cannot be assigned. The entry is achieved directly in the following columns, in the dimension concerned, for each of the dimension types.

Default dimensions can be defined at the level of the nature, but those defined by the default dimension processing have priority.
SEEREFERTTO See the documentation on the default dimensions.

Reports

By default, the following reports are associated with this function :

  BPCINV : Customer BP invoice

  BPCINV2 : Customer BP invoice

  BPCINVFIN : Final invoice

  BPCINVPRE : Prepayment invoice

  BPCINVTAX : Customer BP invoice

  SIMFACCLI : Simulation customer invoices

  FACTRSC : BP invoice list

This can be changed using a different setup.

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