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How the money moves

The Billing menu has a dozen pages under it, which is bewildering at first. They're all links in one chain:

The short version: rate cards set the price, billing records what each consignment owes, invoices gather those lines into a bill, the customer pays, and reconciliation confirms the money actually arrived. Costs are tracked separately and combined with revenue to give profit.

What each page is for

MenuIn one line
Rate CardsPricing rules
Billing ProfilesA customer's cycle and payment terms
BillingCharge lines; select them to raise an invoice
InvoicesThe bill sent to the customer; email it, record payment
PaymentsReceipts and bank slip verification
Cycle RunsHistory of automatic invoicing runs
ReconciliationMatching bank credits to payments
Operating costs and suppliersFuel, wages, supplier quotes
Reports and profitRevenue, cost and profit summaries and exports

Permissions

The whole Billing menu is permission-gated — without it, the menu doesn't appear in the bar at all.

Inside it, finer permissions apply: changing rate cards, recording payments and adjusting a wallet balance by hand are each granted separately. See Finding your way around.

Multiple currencies

The system handles several currencies. The profit page states which currency the summary is showing.