How to create Service Invoices from SO – Services? A frequent question asked in ERP implementation. Please follow this process as its very simple one.
In ACTouch ERP, we can create an Invoice with One Sales Order or having Multiple Sales Orders. This creates Invoice from Sales Order and it checks against the Sales Order Services Amount and how much is pending to Invoice again. Invoice details are derived from customer data and from SO – Services that you are converting.
Here you can make 2 types of Invoices based on the Sales Orders.
- Sales Order – Inventory to Invoice – Inventory
- Sales Order – Services to Invoice – Services
Please make sure, you completed the Sales Settings
When you create an Invoice, following changes happens.
As per the statutory rules, Invoice is a Financial document thats considered for the Confirmation of Sales, Taxes to Collect and customer is liable to PAY the money. It also acts like Stocks or Services is Received by a CUSTOMER and he is agreed to pay the money as per this Invoice.
When you convert service Invoices, the below activities happens and these are very important to understand.
- It creates a Liability towards the Customer to PAY MONEY.
- It creates an Entry towards TAXes and how much TAX to collect from customer and pay Govt.
- It updates the company Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Data automatically.
- It updates the Sales Order status as “CLOSED” (if we Invoiced all items) and update the remaining quantity to receive in Sales Order.
Convert Service Invoices from Sales Order Dashboard
Dashboard helps you to choose a CUSTOMER for whom you want to despatch the materials
Step 1- Select the customer and the OPEN Sales Orders will appear on the SCREEN.
Step 2 – Select the Sales Order and it opens the INVOICE screen.
Convert Service Invoices – Here the SO – Services data is shown and the data is pre-populated.
Field details are here
Field ID | Field Name | Mandatory? | Field Description and how it helps? |
Site ID | Branch Name | No | If you are using Multiple Branches feature then this FIELD appears. Multi Branch / Sites is a feature that can help to make separate document for each SITE / Branches. |
Invoice Number | Invoice No | Yes | This is the Invoice number, a unique number to recognize the document. This is either auto generatedManually you can create. |
Credit terms | Credit Period | No | Select the Credit terms from the Dropdown. |
INVOICE Date | INVOICE creation Date | Yes | Effective Date of transaction |
INVOICE Currency | Currency of Document | Yes | It is the currency used for INVOICE Document / for Transaction. This is also called “Document Currency”. |
Due Date | Payment due date | Yes | This is the date by which the payment has to be made. |
SO Number | Sales Order Number | Yes | Here we are converting a confirmed ORDER into an Invoice. So we need the SO Reference. |
SO date | Date of Sales Order | Yes | This is the date of the Sales Order. |
Customer ID | Customer ID | Yes | It is a unique identification number given to each Customer in ACTouch ERP |
Customer Name | Customer / Party Name | Yes | Customer Name / Business name. |
Bill To | Shipping Address | Yes | This is the address of the customer where the particular product has to be delivered to. |
Purchase Order reference | Purchase/sales order number | No | This is Customer’s Order Number (for reference) |
Purchase Order Amount | Purchase order amount | No | This is the total amount of the Customer Order (for reference) |
Purchase Order Date | Purchase order date | No | This is the Customer Order Date (for reference) |
If Consignee = Yes, then we see the below records
Consignee Details.
Field ID | Field Name | Mandatory? | Field Description and how it helps? |
Consignee | Consignee | By Default = NO | This is the Recipient of the Goods that are shipped. It tells whether we have a Consignee or not? |
Consignee Id | Consignee ID | Yes | This is mandatory, if you enable “Consignee = Yes” This is the identification number given to a consignee. |
Consignee Name | Name of the Consignee | Yes | Consignee Name / Business Name. |
Consignee State | Consignee State | Yes | Consignee State and its important for Indian GST purpose. |
Consignee Shipping Address | Shipping address of Consignee | Yes | Address of the shipment receiver (Consignee). |
Calculate Tax based on Consignee | Tax on Consignee | By Default = NO | This tells whether to apply the tax on the Consignee or not. |
Convert Service Invoice – Services Line details are entered here.
Here you enter the Services description and connect it to a “Category” for which the services is booked into. A typical services provided is like “Training”, “Consultancy” etc.
Field ID | Field Name | Mandatory? | Field Description and how it helps? |
Service Description | Service Description | Yes | It is the description about the Services that’s delivered. |
Service Category | Accounts to which service is booked | Yes | This is picked from Accounts master. When you select an Account, we book the service revenue to this account. |
Service Price | Service Price | Yes | It is the Unit price of the Service. |
Discount | Discount on LINE level | No | Apply the line level DISCOUNT for the Customer, if any. |
Tax incl. | Inclusive of Tax | Default = No | Tax include – Yes or No. This feature is used for the MRP types of Products where the TAX is ADDED with UNIT price. So we should show the Basic Product Amount + Taxes Separately. |
Tax amount | Tax Amount | No | Please select the TAX CODES that are RIGHT for the PRODUCT. If you have setup these data in Product Master, then ERP will pick from there directly. |
Total | Total Amount | Yes | This is the Total amount of the line item excluding TAX AMOUNT |
SAC Code | HSN Codes | No | HSN Codes for the Product that are provided by Government. |
Delivery Challan ID | Delivery Challan NO | No | This is the document from Customer document as reference. |
Terms And Conditions | Business Terms And conditions | No | It’s the General Terms and Conditions for the Delivery etc. If you can also make templates and use it. |
Memo | Additional information | No | You can add more Information about the Sales Order. |
Payment terms | Payment terms | No | These give us the details about payment terms between the two Parties that they have agreed on. You can define multiple “Payment Terms” in Master and use them. |
Payment Terms Description | Payment Terms | No | This is description of Payment terms. |
Sub Total | Total price | Yes | Subtotal of the Order. |
GROSS / Cash Discount | Discount on the total Payment | No | It’s the Overall discount on the Order. Two types Cash Discount – You can give the Discount in “Amount” only.Trade Discount – You can give either in “%age“ or in “AMOUNT” |
Total before tax | Amount before tax | Yes | It’s the Total amount without Tax amount |
Total tax | Tax amount | Yes | It’s the total Tax on the line items. |
Round off | Rounded off amount | No | Enter the Amount, if you want to change it. Its small amount that can be added or removed from the TOTAL AMOUNT to round-off. |
Total | Total Amount of the Order | Yes | This is the total Order amount after rounding off. |
When you convert from Sales Order to Invoices, it helps to control the amount that you entered to receive and it does check against the original Order and will not allow to exceed it.