The auto-invoicing feature will automatically create and send invoices based on the rules established on the Invoicing Rules page. You establish these rules per-product.
Setting Invoice Automation Rules
- Click Automation using the left-hand navigation menu.
- Then, click on the Accounting tab to view your accounting automation.
- Click the Manage Rules button found in the Auto-Invoice Email Template section.
- Configure your invoicing rules for each product:
- Product - This is the product that you will be establishing the rules for.
- Active - This denotes whether or not the product is then set to Active in the product settings.
- Auto-Invoice - Select this checkbox if you want this product auto-invoiced.
- Ignore Line Items Before - If you do not want to send out any invoices for products that have line items before a certain date, you can enter that date here.
- Days - This is the number of days past the due date that you wish to send out the auto-reminder for this product.
- Invoice Handling - Generates an invoice as soon as that product is booked on a contract. Here, you determine when MediaOS will automatically create invoices based on the line item's run date. You can choose from these options:
Options for Invoice Handling
- Do Not Invoice - This will prevent all line items belonging to the product from being invoiced.
- Immediately - Immediately generates an invoice for all line items belonging to this product immediately for after a contract has been set to won.
- Days Before - Generates an invoice 'X' amount of days before the line item's run date.
- Days After - Generates an invoice 'X' amount of days after the line item's run date.
- Note: If you are using Days Before or Days After, you will also need to enter the amount of days before or after a line item runs that the line items belonging to this product should be invoiced.
- You can also configure system-wide invoicing rules by using the top fields.
- Click the Save button.
Scheduling Auto-Invoicing Campaigns
- Click Automation on the navigation menu.
- Then select the Automation tab at the top of the screen.
- Toggle the Auto Invoice button to on.
- Then, configure how often and when your automated invoice campaigns will be sent.
- Invoices can be sent Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Twice Monthly at any time interval you select.
- Toggle the Auto-Invoice Email Template button to on.
- Click Select Template to choose the email template you want your clients to receive.
- Select Change Template to customize the subject line, from email, and from name for automated campaigns.