Invoicing and Payments
The quote is done, the deposit is in, and now there is a progress payment or a final payment to sort out before the job is signed off. This is how you use FlatRateNOW for the most important step of all: getting paid.
What is in this module
- How to generate the invoice
- How to cancel an invoice
- How to send the invoice again
- How to collect payment
How to generate the invoice
1 minTurn the accepted quotes on a job into a single invoice, so there is one amount to collect.
- Open the accepted quote.
- Tap the green button at the bottom right.
- Check the preview.
- Confirm the invoice.
- Issue it straight away to send it to your customer.
One invoice for the whole job If more than one quote on the job has been accepted, you can put any or all of them on the same invoice.
How to cancel an invoice
1 minSomething on the invoice is wrong, or the job changed. Cancel it so you can work on a new one.
Cancel from the quote, not the invoice An invoice is cancelled by cancelling the accepted quote attached to it. That is the part people go looking for in the wrong place.
- Open the accepted quote the invoice came from.
- Tap the action menu.
- Tap Cancel.
- Give a reason.
How to send the invoice again
30 secCustomer lost the invoice? Send it out again in a few taps.
- Open the invoice.
- Tap the invoice action menu.
- Tap Send By Email.
- Check the settings and your customer's contact details, then send.
How to collect payment
1 minGet paid as soon as the job is finished, or take progress payments along the way on bigger jobs, and keep the cashflow moving.
- Open the confirmed invoice.
- Tap Pay Invoice at the bottom right.
- Choose the payment method.
- Change the amount if you are only collecting part of it.
- Follow the rest of the prompts.
Only FlatRateNOW Pay takes the money Card processing through FlatRateNOW Pay is the one method that actually takes payment from your customer. The others record money you have collected some other way.
If you asked for money up front when the quote was accepted, that is covered in how to require a deposit.
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