Sales Order > Advance Billing

An advance billing is a document that you provide to your customer to acknowledge the sale and to collect payment before shipping the goods. In AccountMate, you can create an advance bill using the Advance Billing function. AccountMate temporarily assigns the same document number series as your sales invoices. Once the advance billing is shipped, it will become a valid invoice that is accessible from the Accounts Receivable module.

Note: The Sales Order module must be integrated with the Accounts Receivable module in order to use the Advance Billing functions and reports.

Shipping the items billed in advance is synonymous with approving the advance bill. Once an advanced bill is shipped, the proforma invoice will be converted into a regular sales invoice.

You can do the following processes for an advance bill:

•Create an advance billing

•Amend an advanced billing

•Void an advance billing

•Ship an advance billing

Advance Billing

Advance Billing

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