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Converting Work Orders to Invoices in Method Jobs

Invoicing Work Orders using Invoice Summary in Method Jobs.

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When creating an invoice in Method Jobs, you will first see an Invoice Summary screen. This will allow you to review:

  • Estimate Visit

  • Work Orders

  • Visit details

After which you can create one or more invoices from your work orders.


Accessing the Invoice Summary Screen

  1. Create or select a Method Job within the Method Jobs app.

  2. Within the app ribbon, select the Invoices tab and click βŠ• New Invoice.

  3. This will show you the Invoice Summary Screen.


Invoice Summary Screen Header

At the top of the Invoice Summary screen are the following fields:

Parameters

Description

Customer

The customer will be shown on the Invoice transaction.

Contact

The personal contact associated with the Method Job.

Created Date

Date to be shown on the Invoice.

Wait for sync approval?

When unchecked, the invoice will be synced and exist in QuickBooks.


Invoice Summary - Amounts

The new two sections will show

  • Estimated amount: If an estimate visit was created and completed for this Method Job, it will show in the Estimated amount grid.

  • Work order amount: All work orders associated with this job will show up in this section.

In both grids, you will shown the following fields:

Field

Description

Item

Item identified by name or number.

Description

Description of item.

Qty

Quantity purchased.

Rate

Rate per quantity.

Amount

Total amount based on Rate mulitplied by the quantity.

Tax

Tax on item.


Invoice Summary - Visit Details

This grid details all visits to the customer, including estimate visits and work orders.

Field

Description

Visit

Either the term "Estimate visit" or the name of a Work Order.

Completed date

Date visit was completed.

Assignee

The Method user assigned to the visit.

Durationg (hrs)

Duration of visit in hours.

Status

Current completion status of the visit.

Tax

Tax on item.


Invoice Review

This grid allows the user to select the work orders to be invoiced for Method job.

A list of work orders will be listed in this grid if

  • Their Invoice Type is set to "To be invoiced".

  • The work order has not yet been invoiced.

Use the checkbox column to select the work orders to be invoiced. How many invoices are created is dependent on the toggle (and the number of work orders selected):

  • By toggling Merge to 1 invoice, you can choose to have all the work orders show up on one invoice.

  • If you leave Merge to 1 invoice untoggled, then separate invoices will be created for each work order.

Once Create Invoice is selected, the user will be navigated to the first new invoice.

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