Lab - Invoices

Create a batch of invoices

Exercise 2

1. Select Tools >Invoice Generator from the main menu.
2. At the Summary of billed costs screen click Next.
3. At the Invoice Criteria screen click the Next button.
4. At the Review and Exclude Individual Invoices screen click Next.

It is fine to generate every possible invoice, including those not assigned to us, because this is a training database.

5. At the Invoice Details screen explore the options for the invoices you are generating. Change the Terms field to Strictly within 14 Days and change the Status to Draft (this is required for Exercise 4).
6. Click Next again.
7. Click OK to confirm that the Invoices will be generated in the next step.
8. View the invoices that have been created and click Finish to close the generator.
   

By default the Print box is ticked for all invoices, so a print preview will be generated for all the invoices you generated.

Print outstanding invoices

Exercise 3

1. Select Tools > Invoice Batch Utilityfrom the main menu.
2. The default setting is to process overdue Invoices. We will be doing this in the exercise so click Next.
3. The default setting is that each filter (from Category to Teams) is set to All. All check boxes below these should be clear. Click Next.
4. The screen displays the invoices identified by this search. There can very well be hundreds of invoices so reduce the number to about five invoices by clicking the Exclude check box for most invoices.

An excluded invoice immediately disappears from the screen.

5. Click Next.
6. Leave the Print Invoices option selected the Batch Action page and click Finish. The targeted invoices will appear in a print preview window.
   

Delete the invoices you created at Exercise 2

Exercise 4

1. Select Tools > Invoice Batch Utility from the main menu.
2. Select Invoice generator batch and select the batch you created in Exercise 2 from the dropdown list. This should be at the top of the list.
3. Click Next, Next and Next again. This will bring you to the Batch Action page.
4. Select Delete invoices and click Finish.
5. As this is an irreversible action, you will be required to authenticate the action by typing delete into the box and clicking Proceed with delete.

You just permanently deleted the entire batch of invoices that you generated in Exercise 2. Note that this was only possible because they were Draft invoices, not Finalised invoices.

Allocate a $200 payment from an Allianz cheque

Exercise 5

1. Select your training case from the Case List.
2. Click the Account tab.
3. Click the New button and click New Payment from the dropdown list.
4. The Payment screen will appear.

At Exercise 5 in Lab - Working with a case you set the Bill To for your case to Ms Wendy Donovan from Allianz. Thus, Allianz will be selected as the payer at the Payment screen. Almost certainly Allianz will have several outstanding invoices, not just your case's invoices.

5. Enter the payment amount as $2000.00.
6. Tick the boxes beside invoices to allocate the payment. Ticking a box allocates as much as possible to that invoice. Try allocating the funds across several cases by manually entering how much to distribute to each invoice.
7. Click Save.

You have inserted a payment transaction for all the invoices you selected, which may be from multiple cases.

At each case any remaining unpaid amounts for invoices is totalled and displayed in the footer of the Accounts tab.