Job Code is the job this invoice relates to.

Client is the client Company of the invoice.

Invoice Title is the billing title, defaulting to the job description, but can be modified here or the default in Job Maintenance.

Invoice Format determines what type of report is generated when sending the document to the client.

Billing Address defaults to the job's default, but can be changed to any address for the Client Company.

Billing Contact defaults to the job's default, but can be changed to any person listed under the Client Company.

Email Option can be chosen from the following, where Company Postal is the default Postal Address in the Client Company:

• To Billing Contact Only

• To Billing Contact, CC Company Postal

• To Company Postal, CC Billing Contact

• To Company Postal Only

Invoice Number is automatically generated based on the Setting "Next Job Invoice Number". This setting can be altered to produce different ranges of invoices based on FinCo, Location, Profit Centre, or global.

Claim No automatically generates in sequence for each Contract. Ensure all previous claims have been finalised before generating a new one.

Claim Date defaults to day’s date and is used for tracking when the Claim was sent to the client to certify, but it has not been certified yet.

Posting (Invoice) Date defaults to today's date but should be updated to reflect the intended date of the invoice

Comment is a free text area to include messages or notifications on the invoice/claim. This is visible to the client in standard reports.

Due Date is determined by the Contract Dates field Claim Payment Days, but can be manually changed.

Job Status is usually set in Job Maintenance, but can be updated here. This is useful if completing the final claim for the job.

Claim Reference is an optional text field for any useful references.

Billing Type is determined by the Job Maintenance settings.

Bill POs is used in Input Based Selling for situations where you want to bill the client the value of unprocessed Purchase Orders.

Batch displays the AR Invoice batch number that this invoice is located in, and is populated automatically after the invoice has been finalised.

Prepayments is the net balance of the Prepayment Sales Code for the parent Job Code and all sub jobs.

Job Value is derived from the Job Maintenance field of the same name and is used when billing Quoted jobs the value will be populated when Get Sales is clicked. Otherwise this is a reference-only field.

Order No is derived from the Job Maintenance field of the same name and can be manually entered/updated here.

FC Rate is the Foreign Currency rate.

Currency is the Currency derived from the client Company.

Created By is the User that created this AR invoice.

Approved By is the User that approved this AR invoice.

Approval Required By is the current User assigned to approve this AR invoice. The user must have appropriate Permissions to approve AR invoices.

Created Date is automatically populated when the invoice is created, and is not necessarily the same as the Invoice Date.

Edited Date is the last date that this invoice was edited.

Printed Date is currently unused.

Approved Date is the date that the Approved By user approved this invoice.

Claim Submitted Date is an optional manual entry to track when Contract Claims are submitted, as opposed to the final invoice.

Updated Date mirrors the Edited Date field.

Cancelled Date logs the date that the X Cancel Invoice button was clicked.

Job Completed Date tracks when the Job was marked as completed.

Job Finalised Date tracks when the Job was marked as finalised.

Derived shows how the line was derived:

• C - Contract Claims

• I - Input Based

• O - Output Based

• M - Manually Created (automated retention lines show as M)

Job is the job this invoice line relates to in the instance of subjob billing.

Sales Code is the Sales Code that this line uses, directing the General Ledger codes to the correct place.

Description is usually defaulted to the Sales Code but can be modified. For Contract Claims, this will not appear on the claim request report.

Work Centre is used if you are employing Work Centre level revenue tracking in the Contract Schedules, otherwise it can be left blank.

Quantity is left at 0 for Contract Claims.

Rate is the combination of all schedule line claims.

Value is the combination of all schedule line claims. Retention lines can be manually adjusted

GST is calculated based on your GST Type settings. This can be manually adjusted if needed.

Total is the GST-inclusive amount of the claim line.

GST Type uses the GST Type settings from your Contract Schedules. This can be manually adjusted if needed.

Details can be added here but are not displayed on the claim report.

The Bin icon cannot be used to delete claim lines. Instead, go back to Get Sales and modify your claim lines.

Expand / Collapse All expands or collapses the display of lines below where groupings are used.

Schedule shows which Contract Schedule the Item originates from.

Schedule section shows what the original Contract Schedule values are.

Previous section shows the cumulative claim amount from previous claims. 

To Date is the amount inclusive of Previous claims. It is important to enter the cumulative amount claimed against the selected line and not just the amount for this claim. The resulting calculation will be shown in the This Claim section.

• % Done takes the percentage of the line completed to date and populates the following two columns.

• Quantity can be entered instead, especially in cases where the schedule contains a specified quantity of claimable items in the Schedule section rather than a percentage complete. Entering here completes the other two fields.

• Value is the total amount claimed to date for this line. Entering a specific amount here reverse calculates the previous two fields.

This Claim is the section that shows the difference between the To Date section and the Previous section. This is the amount that will be billed to the client.

Refresh is used in situations where you make additions to the underlying Claim Schedules and want to bring the changes into this claim. This will reset all entered amounts but will not revert if the screen has been saved.

Reset reverts the claim to base values, effectively starting the claim over. This does not change Previous claims.

Save - Generate Billing saves all changes and populates the invoice with the resulting lines. Retention amounts will automatically be calculated as per the retention setting in Contract Settings.