Invoices & Payments

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The Finance Management area allows you to create, search and record payments against invoices within your system.

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Finance Management

To access and edit financial data, users will need the following permissions:

  • Users must have Financial permissions enabled to be able to add, view, update and delete appropriate financial records in the system.
 

Tip: Finance codes need to be created in your account before you will be able to assign them to a line item in an invoice.

 

Note: The aXcelerate Finance System does not support issuing invoices with a value of zero. Instead of issuing an invoice, you can instead create a basic invoice template to be used for any free or otherwise non-payable training. You can then use this template to send to any applicable students. Please note that this solution does not interact with the finance system.

 

Warning: You will need to ensure that you have an Invoice Seed set in the Additional Options of your System Settings before you will be able to create an invoice. This will set the number of the first invoice created in your system and cannot be changed once it has been set. Please refer to our Additional Options help article for further information.

Search invoices

  1. Hover over the Search icon
  2. Enter your search terms
  3. Click Search
  4. Click on an Invoice to view it
 

Tip: Click Advanced Search to show additional fields to include in the search.

 

Note: To view all invoices stored within your system, leave all fields blank and click Search.

Create an invoice

When navigating to the Invoice tab of the Finance Management page, the initial screen is a form for invoice creation. When an invoice is first created it will be Open until an invoice number has been issued. Payments are unable to be applied to the invoice until an invoice number is issued.

  1. Click New from the menu on the left
  2. Select a Contact from the system to bill
  3. Select a Finance Code
  4. Set the Quantity
  5. Enter an Item Description
  6. Set the Unit Cost
  7. Click the Green Tick icon to confirm the line item
  8. Click the Plus icon to add additional line items as needed
  9. Issue Invoice Number, Lock Line Items or Finalise the invoice as required
  10. Click Save

Issue Invoice Number

Issuing an invoice number will assign a number to the invoice so it will no longer appear as AUTO and allow payments to be applied to the invoice. Once an invoice number is issued and partial or full payment is applied, you will no longer be able to:

  • add line items
  • update line items amounts
  • delete line items
  • delete the invoice

Lock Line Items

Locking line items will allow no further changes to line items within the invoice even if no payment has yet been recorded. Line items cannot be locked without also issuing an invoice number. Once the line items have been locked you will no longer be able to:

  • add line items
  • update line items amounts
  • delete line items
  • delete the invoice
  • export invoices & payments to external accounting systems

Finalise

Finalising an invoice will allow no further changes to the invoice details to be made. Invoices cannot be finalised without also locking the line items and issuing an invoice number. After an invoice has been made final, you will no longer be able to:

  • add line items
  • update line items amounts
  • delete line items
  • delete the invoice
  • update invoice details
 

Note: Exporting invoices to external accounting systems without a finalised status will automatically set the invoice as finalised.

 

Tip: To Add Surcharge to the invoice for credit card payments, hover over the More icon and click Add Surcharge.

 

Note: Click the Update icon and then the Delete icon next to line items to remove them from an invoice. This cannot be done once line items are locked, payment has been recorded against an invoice with a number issued or if the invoice has been finalised.

 

Warning: Locked invoices can be unlocked by those with the Master Finance Permission. Please be aware that making changes to locked invoices may compromise the integrity of your financial data.

Update line items

  1. View an invoice
  2. Click the Update icon next to a line item
  3. Make changes to the line item as required
  4. Click the Tick icon to apply the changes
  5. Click Save
 

Tip: Click the Plus icon to add another line item to the invoice. Click the delete icon when updating a line item to remove it from the invoice.

 

Note: Line Items cannot be added once an invoice number has been issued. Line items cannot be updated or removed after a refund has been recorded or if the invoice has been finalised.

Send an invoice

Invoices are able to be manually sent to contacts in the system via templates.

  1. View an invoice
  2. Click the Send icon
  3. Select a template Category
  4. Select a Template
  5. Edit the template as required
  6. Click Email
  7. Set the sender and recipients of the email
  8. Select the Email Content template
  9. Click Send
 

Tip: Please refer to our Template Communication help article for further information.

Void an invoice

Invoices that have been issued an invoice number can no longer be deleted but can instead be voided. An invoice number is required before an invoice can be voided.

  1. View an invoice
  2. Hover over the More icon
  3. Click Void Invoice
  4. Click Yes to confirm

Unvoid an invoice

Voided invoices can be unvoided by users with the finance master permission.

  1. View a voided invoice
  2. Hover over the More icon
  3. Click Unvoid Invoice
  4. Click Yes to confirm
 

Warning: Unvoiding invoices may cause inconsistencies with your financial data.

Delete an invoice

Invoices cannot be deleted if an invoice number has been set, the invoice line items have been locked or the invoice has been finalised.

  1. View an invoice
  2. Hover over the More icon
  3. Click Delete Invoice

Record a payment

Payments are able to be manually recorded against invoices present in your system. An invoice number will need to be set against the invoice before payment can be recorded.

 

  1. View an Invoice
  2. Hover over Payments on the menu on the left
  3. Click Record Payment
  4. Select the Payment Method
  5. Set the payment Amount
  6. Click Record Payment
 

Tip: Recording a payment is also possible by clicking the Payments tab by selecting the appropriate contact, payment method and amount and then clicking on the corresponding invoice to apply the payment.

 

Note: Hover over Payments on the menu on the left when viewing an invoice and click Show Applied Amounts to view the payments that have been set against the invoice.

Record a credit card payment

aXcelerate allows you to process credit card payments via the payment gateway that has been configured in your account. The available payment gateways that aXcelerate integrates with are eWay and SqID. An invoice number will need to be set against the invoice before payment can be recorded.

  1. View an Invoice
  2. Hover over the Payments tab
  3. Click Process Credit Card Payment
  4. Enter the personal details of the Payer
  5. Enter the credit card credentials of the payer
  6. Click Process Transaction
 

Tip: This function is helpful with online enrolments to be able to process credit card payments through the online enrolment form. Please refer to our aXcelerate system requirements help article for further information.

 

Note: You will need to have Payment Gateway details set in the Web & Other Integrations tab of your system settings for this function to work.

 

Warning: If there is an issue processing this payment, the credentials entered into your system settings may be invalid or there may be an issue with your payment gateway account. Please contact your payment gateway provider for assistance with these issues.

Send a Direct Payment Form

A payment URL is able to be generated from an invoice so that you can send a direct payment form to a student or payer for their outstanding fees. No login is required to access the payment form, the payer will just need to be provided with the unique link generated from the invoice. The credit card payment will be processed through the Payment Gateway that has been configured in your system settings.

  1. View an Invoice with an Invoice Number
  2. Hover over the Payments tab
  3. Click Copy Credit Card Payment URL
  4. Send the link to the payer associated with the invoice
 

Tip: This function is helpful to follow-up outstanding invoices in the system and allows you to capture payments after enrolment has taken place.

 

Note: You will need to have Payment Gateway details set in the Web & Other Integrations tab of your system settings for this function to work. 

Invoicing Webinar

This webinar demonstrates:

  • Managing Invoices
  • Raising a Manual Invoice from Finance Management
  • Raising a Manual Invoice from the Contact Page
  • Raising an Invoice for Public Workshop enrolments
  • Raising an Invoice for Client Contacts for In-house Workshops
  • Sending Invoices

Recording Payments Webinar

This webinar demonstrates:

  • Recording Payments
  • Applying Payments to Invoices
  • Issuing a Receipt

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