A number of maintenance items need to be configured within the system to allow the Billing module to generate invoice and credit notes. These maintenance items are as follows:
Taxation
Time Groups
Invoice Bill Code Groups
Invoice Terms
Invoice Messages
Billing Fees
Oncost Groups
Billing Companies
Purchase Order Bill Code Groups & Alert Templates
Invoice format groups
Credit note reasons
Email templates.
If you are configuring the Billing application for the first time the order in which you create each of these maintenance items is important and should be as listed above. For example, you will need to create taxation items before you will be able to configure billing companies.
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