| Central Invoicing glossary |  |
| billing request Selects the order types and orders to be invoiced. If you process a billing request, ERP LN selects the invoicing data and generates the invoices for the order types and orders selected through the billing request. billing request addition Defines the text and the layout of the printed invoices and whether or not you can overwrite the default transaction types and series used for the invoice document numbering. billing request set A set of one or more billing requests set up for recurring processing. If you process a billing request set, ERP LN selects the invoicing data according to the billing requests. billing request template Defines the type and number of orders that you can select through the billing request. For example, the types of orders can be Sales, Freight, Project, or Service, and the number of orders of each type can be none, one, or several. calculation method The way in which tax amounts are calculated. Two methods exist: Parallel Each tax rate is added to the previous tax rate. Example Tax rate for sequence number 1: 10% Tax rate for sequence number 2: 5% Total tax rate: (10+5)% = 15% Cumulative Each tax rate is a percentage of the preceding total tax rate. Example Tax rate for sequence number 1: 10% Tax rate for sequence number 2: 5% Total tax rate: 10% + 5% + (10% / 100% * 5%) = 15.5% composing criteria The predefined criteria for grouping invoice lines on a single invoice. The invoice lines of an invoice must have the same values for the composing criteria. Example Invoice lines with different invoice currencies, or with different invoice-to addresses, cannot be combined on one invoice. cut-off date The latest date for which transactions are processed. Transactions with a transaction date later than the cut-off date specified for a process are not included in the process. fixed rate An agreed exchange rate that is used, for example, for a project, regardless of future exchange-rate fluctuations. future invoice An invoice for which all required data has been collected and saved in the Sales Invoicing module. However, this data has not yet been confirmed. interest invoice An invoice to charge interest. You can create interest invoices for: Unpaid overdue invoices. Invoices that were paid or partially paid later than their due dates. invoice A document stating a list of prices of delivered goods and services that must be paid under certain conditions. invoice currency The currency in which the invoice amount is expressed. invoice number The identification of an invoice, which consists of the transaction-type code and the first free number in the series used for invoices for the order type. invoice type The kind of invoice. Each Operations Management package has its own types of invoices. invoicing method A set of parameters that defines, among other things, the types of orders and orders lines that can be collected on an invoice, and the type of invoice to be generated and the costs to be aggregated on Project invoices and Service invoices. You can define different invoicing methods for your invoice-to business partners. manual sales invoice An invoice without a related sales order or goods receipt and which is directly created in Central Invoicing. matched SBI relations code A number that identifies a set of matched (customer) self-billed invoice lines with sales and warehouse invoice lines. rate determiner The method to decide which date is used to determine the exchange rates. During the composing process, all amounts in foreign currencies are converted to the home currency, based on the determined exchange rate. self-billed invoice header The common data part of an incoming, electronically received, self-billed invoice. self-billed invoice lines The specific data part of an incoming, electronically received, self-billed invoice. This data includes sales order, shipment, delivered quantity, and price. |