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When you're ready to send an invoice to your client, you can:
Charge Time and Expenses from a specific period
Charge the whole budget (Fixed-price items only)
Charge what's left uninvoiced from a certain budget
An invoice can be created directly from a budget:
...or you can go to Billing > Invoices and hit New.
Let's see how you can invoice an item that you're selling to your client for a fixed price. In this example, the price for the service is $1,000 and five hours have been tracked on that service.
This budget can be invoiced in two ways:
1) Charge your client only for the five hours of work that have been done:
Using this method, you can select the date picker and invoice the time entries created in a specific time period:
or invoice the time entries created in a dynamic period in the past:
2) Charge your client for a specific uninvoiced amount. The system will calculate how much of the total amount was invoiced before (if there was any previous invoicing) so you can invoice the difference. Alternatively, you can invoice the whole budget upfront (fixed price items only).
To make things easier for you and your clients, you can automate the naming of the line items. If you use the first option (Univoiced Time & Expenses), you can use the following:
Project
Budget
Service type / Service
Task / Task Number
Person
Time Entry
Period (day, week, month, quarter, year)
Also, you can enter any text you'd like, so if you want to invoice the work your teammate has done in this quarter, it will look like this:
If you use the second option (Uninvoiced amount), you can automate the naming of the line items using:
Service
Service Type
Budget
Project
And as before, you can add your text as well:
To change the document type and subsidiary, click here:
When you're ready, hit Create invoice:
Attach Timesheet Report
If you want to send your client a timesheet report for the invoiced time entries, be sure to hit Send Invoice Via Email:
Here you can select Attach related time entries .pdf file:
The file will appear above:
Attaching related time entries will only be available when the invoicing method Uninvoice Time & Expenses has been selected.
If the Uninvoiced amount method is selected, you will not see the option to attach related time entries.
Merge tags
Merge tags are used to personalize your email templates and can be used when sending invoices via Email. To see which tags are supported, first click on Edit to bring up the text editor.
You will notice that certain parts of the email have changed the way how they appear. Instead of plain text, they are now shown in { } brackets.
By clicking on the Information icon (i), a list of currently supported tags in Productive will be displayed.
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