WHY ARE INVOICES IMPORTANT IN ANY BUSINESS

In our previous posts, we have studied about the invoicing system, their benefits, advantages and disadvantages. Now we are going to discuss that why invoices important in any business are.


Before discussing such a beneficial article let us first understand that what is an invoice and how an invoice system created??

Actually, an invoice (also called bill) is a commercial document which is issued by a seller to the buyer. This commercial document consists of various information such as name and contact details regarding buyer as well as purchaser, the quantity of required particular product and its cost per unit time, the total amount paid.

As far as creating an invoice is concerned, it just takes a few minutes to create an invoice. Firstly, we have to go to a customer, and click ‘new invoice’, meanwhile you can add various items from inventory, scan the barcode, or can add a manual item and then your changes to invoices are automatically saved.

An invoice is not only beneficial or important for a particular business, but it proved its efficiency even in all the sectors. Let us now discuss that why invoices so important in business.

A properly design invoice not only helps a business to get time to time payments but also aims at assuring the security of both the parties.

TIME TO TIME PAYMENTS

Invoices enable an organisation getting its payments duly on time and also in full terms. If a proper invoice is not there, then there could be various payment-related issues. Companies also always check the receipt of the invoices; therefore, every information on the invoices should be correct and clear in order to avoid other disbursing payments.

It should be known to everyone that “the quicker your business gets invoices to customer or clients, the quicker will the business gets its payments”.

MINIMIZE ERRORS

An efficient invoicing system enables automatic compilation of costs and quotes on the basis of the information mentioned in an invoice like the quantity of the product and cost per unit of the product. This automatic compilation of costs reduces the chances of errors regarding cost and quantity of purchased product. Also, this automatic compilation reduces the manual work of creating billing which further increases the efficiency of the particular business.

TRANSPARENCY

One important function of the cloud-based invoices is that it provides clear and correct information about the whole purchase to the user as well as to the business in an instance without creating any delay. Reports which are created automatically can further schedule which reduces the manual work and in result helps in business profits

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What is an Invoice ????

What is E-invoicing & How it is different from traditional invoice system

Previously, we had studied about invoice system thoroughly. We discussed that what actually is an invoice system??? , we also discussed that what things are mandatory to be included in an invoice, and various other interesting information regarding it.

Today we are going to discuss E-invoicing & how it is different from traditional invoice system.

Let us discuss first that what actually is an invoice system???
Actually, an invoice system is a system which tells us about a particular transaction between a purchaser and buyer by generating a bill or invoice.
          Where an invoice is actually a bill which consists of various mandatory information like name& address of buyer as well as purchaser, their contact details, tax details, terms & conditions etc.

Now let me tell you about E-invoice system

E-invoicing means electronic invoicing which enables us to exchange of invoices in between a seller & purchaser in a typically integrated format.

Electronic invoice system enables us to send structured invoice data or information in XML or EDI (Electronic data exchange) formats. It also aims to reduce not only paperwork but also manual work.

Take a look at e-invoice formats:

·         Sequential invoice number

·         Invoice date or its date of creation

·         Name & address of buyer

·         Name & address of vendor

·         VAT details

·         Date when goods are supplied

·         Quantity & type of product

·         Currency

·         Unit price

·         Any sort of discounts

·         When payments are made

·         SEPA number

·         SWIFT code

Now let us talk about traditional invoice

Traditional invoicing is that particular type of invoicing that makes use of extensive paperwork & manual work in order to create invoices or bills. The format of traditional invoices is nearly same.  Traditional invoices are actually more prone errors due to very much manual work which further increased cost.
Paper invoices are actually labour intensive

Multiple sources increase the chances of errors

These paper-based invoices are hard to monitor.

Below is a diagram which shows the difference in processing of an E-invoice system & traditional invoice system.

Above figure shows processing steps of an invoice systems. And a red line eliminates those steps that we don’t need to add in E-invoicing. This elimination of various steps makes E-invoicing more efficient & appropriate.

Benefits of E-invoicing

Reduced costs

Increased accuracy

Improved cash management

Faster payments

Better productivity and so on.

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5 invoicing mistakes that you need to avoid

Previously we had discussed a lot about invoice system & invoice.we also discuss various things which are mandatory to be there in an invoice and various such important and cognizant articles. Today we will discuss various stupid invoicing mistakes that you surely need to be avoided. Before discussing this interesting & important article, let us take a quick look at what actually is an invoice system. This quick revision makes us understand this topic effectively.

What is an invoice system??
It is a software application that enables us to produce invoices. Where an invoice is a commercial document that itemizes or tells us about the particular transaction between a buyer & a seller. This includes information about various information such as total quality of the project, contact details of the seller as well as purchase, Total amount, tax details and various other information.

·         Never forget your payment information
You never know that how clients will pay you. Sometimes the client does not know that what amount have to pay, where it have to pay and when it have to pay. You should have to mention this kind of information effectively and accurately. Such description of information regarding bill will avoid various issues such as non-payment of the amount, wrong payment of the amount. More than just keeping out you from any transaction related trouble, it further helps you to make a good record of successful invoices.

·         Always keeps records

Actually keeping records of various things is a good practice.Think of a scenario when you send an e-invoice to the client but yet he or she do not pay the requested amount to them and promises that they actually paid the amount but in real they do not. In that case, the seller, as well as purchaser, have to keep the records always.

·         Don’t forget to follow up

Follow up invoices is the best way to determine that whether the invoices are paid or not. There are two advantages of the following invoice, the first one is that it always reminds you to send bill or invoices and secondly it will eliminate those names on the lists that enables you to avoid confusion that who paid the amount & who do not.

·         Do not include surprises

Never mention or show various discount on the invoices. As it often confused various purchaser or client that what amount they actually have to pay.

·         Do not wait to send your invoices
Always send your invoices on time as this is a good practice & enables you to collect required amount on time.

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How to handle issues regarding invoice

 

So far we had discussed a lot about invoices. We study about various invoicing software and tools available in the online market. We discussed various features as well as advantages and disadvantages regarding invoice system or invoice tools. This discussion helps the clients or user to efficiently choose that particular invoice system or invoice tool that is required by the client or user as per their requirement. I mean sometimes the user got confused about which invoice system he must go for, therefore, if a brief introduction describing various features and characteristics regarding a particular product is there for the client, then he or she can make an easy choice for their product for sure.

Although we had discussed many times about invoice system and about various tools and their feature, but before discussing various invoice issues I think we should once revise what is an invoice system??

Actually, an invoice system is a software system that produces invoices where an invoice is a commercial document or you can say a bill that consists of various important information regarding the transactions which are mandatory to be included in the transaction list. For example seller as well as purchaser contacts details along with full address, cost per quantity, taxes information, terms & conditions.

There are many occasions when the invoice system does not produce the expected results. There are many unwanted issues that rendered our transaction incomplete and awful. Therefore, we should seriously learn how these problems may be handled. First I must tell you which sort of issues might be there during transaction through invoice.

Invoices or payment reminders are not generated

 This mostly occurs issue in invoices. This problem generally occurs when the user forgets to tick overdue “notice option” at the client's profile tab. So he/she should make sure to tick this notice option in order to avoid such issues.

Server modules

Server modules should also be checked in order to avoid server module issues.

Hosting control panels

VPS

Shout cast panels

Backup etc.

Items are not invoicing

The most obvious reason for non-generation of the invoice is cancellation request for the service or it’s a sort of fraud, fake or terminated. In order to avoid this, the user needs to check disable auto renew.

Sometimes tax not applied to invoices

If the tax is not applied then we believe that it is not eligible under tax rules. Therefore, in order to remove this issue, the user need to first ensure that tax is enabled and then apply tax options are ticked on.

Multiple invoices with the same service generated

Sometimes multiple invoices are generated along with the same service with different due dates if the service has a due date in the past.

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