Most often, we will use the term invoice as a shorthand for customer invoice, except when we are explicitly discussing vendor invoices or bills.
In Simple Accounting, an invoice simply refers to a sales order which has been shipped and which has been billed. Therefore, all invoices are accessed from the Sales Order Browse. A sales order becomes an invoice when you press the Print button from this browse and select Invoice.
You can identify invoiced sales orders in a number of ways:
- They have a system assigned invoice number. These numbers are set in FILES|Setup|Sales & A/R Options.
- They appear under the Invoices tab in the sales order browse, and, if they are still open, under the Open Invoices tab as well.
- They have a Payment Status code.
If they are open, they will appear in red or green in the sales order browse. (Red for open invoices, green for credit memos, black for invoices that are paid in full.)
Last Revision: 11.6.2013
