Invoice Process
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Make sure Quickbooks is accurately showing who has ...
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ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
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Make sure Quickbooks is accurately showing who has paid so we don’t send notices to those that have paid and haven’t been marked.
- Match bank deposits with Invoices, update Quickbooks accordingly
- Document for matching
- Check that all payments are marked Paid in Quickbooks
- Send overdue Invoice reminders
- Invoices due net 30 days
- After 30 days, reminders weekly for 2 weeks.
- After 45 days, a personal note (or phone call for invoices over $1k).
- After 60 days. If no response to the note or call, send 30-day termination notice and call/leave message that it is in motion.
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TIME REPORTS:
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- Create Time Reports for Invoicing in Harvest
- Go to Reports Tab | Set time to Last Month | Select Clients | Sort hrs high>low
- Correct time entries where needed – projects, etc.
- Run a report for the month, then create invoices based on work completed for that month
- Run all time even if some are on pre-paid contracts
- Enter Time Reports into Airtable
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PREP AND RUN INVOICES FROM AIRTABLE
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- Change filter on both ‘Invoice Prep’ and ‘Invoice Export’ to month (month being billed i.e., “3” for billing at the end of March)
- Check to see that everything that should be invoiced is appearing.
- TIME: Time from Harvest
- STANDARD: Standard monthly/annual hosting and support (should already be in Airtable)
- REIMBURSEMENT – Utilities: (Group CJ)
- NEW: Agreements
- Establish Invoice Name | Protocol: Client Month What (ex: Blue Million March 24 Hosting)
- Add appropriate descriptions
- Check Line Item detail accuracy
- Markup all plugins 20% *WILL BE AUTOMATED
- Make sure contacts, addresses, are correct. They will transfer to Quickbooks.
- Check tax status
- Fill in the last 3 fields for how to enable payment with true/false flags
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EXPORT
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- Move from ‘Purchases | Time | Invoicing’ view > Billing: Invoice Export view > Set month number in Filter; set quarter
- Export file to CSV
- Save that file in Exports for QB folder
- Setting “Exported” will remove the Invoice from the active Que to prevent it from being re-imported.
- Invoice Bulk Import https://saasant.com
- Review import | Send file to Quick Books
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QUICK BOOKS
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- Review/Edit each new invoice for:
- correct date sent/due
- correct billing address
- Add option to pay by CC if the amount is less than $1,000
- Determine if attachments required (ie time detail, proposal agreement, etc)
- If NEW client, attach Blue Million W9
- Save invoice
- Review and Send
- Review/Edit each new invoice for:
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CLIENT-SPECIFIC NOTES
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- FTBOA Monthly
- Agreement is $800 but can be variable as long as they were aware along the way.
- Rate is $85 and $135
- Attach Time Detail
- FTBOA Monthly
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- FOR CAMELOT:
- Include Invoice/Time Detail file out of Harvest
- Update Annual summary spreadsheet | Create PDF and put in appropriate month folder.
- Include both attachments to invoice in QB
- FOR CAMELOT:
NOTES
In Blue Million CRM:
- CLIENTS
- Should match company name in Agreement and will be the name/address/contact in Quickbooks
- PROJECTS
- Should match:
- Google Drive
- Harvest/Forecast
- Should match:
- “QUOTATIONS”
- around client – remove comma in name in both Airtable and Quickbooks
- PURCHASE|INVOICING
- Does not show anything with “House” as Status
- Annual if it is the month you set
- Monthly: all of them
- One Time: All that aren’t …
- CONTRACTS
- All work needs a contract
- Multiple Invoices can be associated with each contract
- Work Order is the same as Invoice – automatically numbered
TODO
- Cc: Billing: when does this get populated?
- Update rates In Harvest – LDW
- UPDATE CRM PROJECTS WITH BUDGETS/PROPOSALS/ARCHIVE LDW
- Write direct import to Quickbooks from Airtable | include attachments
- Change ‘renewal date’ to ‘billing date’ and set via Purchases table TC
- Set AT field to export cc and bcc fields for billing TC
- Fix Biederman Exception in June TC
- Look at hosting in Invoice Archive view: why so many Google listings? LW/TC
- Automate the 20% markup on Plugins; after 1/1/25, add the markup notation in footnote of rate sheet.
- Archive 2024? and older
- Fix salutation field in QuickBooks to be First Name: LW
POLICIES
Don’t bill ongoing projects under 3 hours
Only allow CC payments if invoice is less than $1,000
-Check AR
-Update Projections
-Bring Harvest up to date
-Reconcile CC
Leave a comment if you have an additional note or tips!
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