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To facilitate the ability to auto invoice services, Services Maintenance has been moved from Recruitment Manager > Maintenance to Maintenance > Global and enhancements have been made to Services Maintenance so that invoicing options to be can enabled and defined for services that are to be auto invoiced.

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Services Maintenance was previously located under Recruitment Manager > Maintenance but as part of this enhancement it has now been moved to Maintenance > Global, as highlighted in the example below.

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A new section labelled Auto Invoicing Options has been added to the Services Maintenance > Add/Edit Services screen, as highlighted in the example below.

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Under the Auto Invoicing Options section, it is possible to you define one set of invoice options per billing company (legal entity that issues invoices on behalf of your business). When a service is added to a job order , it is possible for an invoice to can be raised automatically for that service, without the intervention of back office staff, if a set of auto invoice details have been defined for that service and those the invoice details are linked to the billing company to which the job order is linked.

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  • Country – this defines the country within the country/brand/region hierarchy to which the set of invoice details apply. For example, a set of invoicing options where the country is set to United Kingdom will be applicable only when the service is assigned to a job order that belongs to the United Kingdom in the hierarchy.

  • Bill Code – this defines the bill code against which the service is billed on an invoice.

  • Billing Company – this defines the legal entity within your business structure that is to issue invoices for the service. A service can have one set of invoicing options per billing company only.

  • Invoice Type Account Group – this is a set of financial details on the billing company that determine the type of invoice to be issued (invoice or credit note) and the financial accounts to which the billed or credited amounts are to be posted when the service is invoiced.

Note

It is important that the invoice type account group that is selected is linked to an invoice type of Non Timesheet Based Invoice - Perm/Service or Non Timesheet Based Credit Note - Perm/Service only.

A flag can also be set on the auto invoicing options to enforce that the invoice creation date determines the invoice date. If this flag is set, when a user raises an invoice for the service the invoice date will default to the date on which the invoice is created and cannot be changed to another date. Otherwise, the user raising the invoice will be able to can set the invoice date to a date other than the date on which the invoice is createdinvoice creation date.

Benefits

These enhancements facilitate the invoicing of billable services, which have been provided by your business as part of filling a job order, without the need for back office staff to manually raise invoices to bill for the service.

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Note the following when configuring auto invoicing options for a service:

  • There can only be one set of invoicing options defined on a service record for a given billing company.

  • Because each Each set of invoicing options is linked to an invoice type account group, which determines the type of invoice or credit note that is to be raised. Therefore, if credits both invoices and credit notes are to be automatically raised for a service then a separate service record raised via the auto invoicing process, two separate service records must be created and each record must be linked to the relevant billing company and the a different invoice type account group that defines references the relevant invoice type (such as Non Timesheet Based Invoice - Perm/Service and Non Timesheet Based Credit Note - Perm / Service) that is to be created in the event that an credit needs to be raised via the auto invoice process respectively).