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Invoicing is ideal for handling sales that occur outside of your point-of-sale system including wholesale transactions. With Invoicing powered by Stripe, you can create customer-specific orders, collect payments, and track order fulfillment. All fulfilled invoices will be deducted from your inventory automatically.
If you want to use Wholesale, be sure to check out this article to learn more:
Getting Started
Before you can send your first invoice, you’ll need to:
Create your new Stripe account
Add your first customer
Set up your inventory
Thrive uses Stripe to help you collect online payments from your customers. You can follow the prompts on-screen to set up a new account.
NOTE: The Stripe account will be specific to Thrive. That means even if you already have a Stripe account for other purposes, a new one will need to be created.
Creating an Invoice
Remember, the products being added to the invoice must already have been added to Thrive!
From the Invoicing page, click "Create Invoice" and you'll see a page like this:
Here is additional information on what each field means:
Invoice No. - Can be anything you like. You can choose a random starting number, and each invoice will automatically go up by 1 from there.
Due Date - The date your customer is expected to pay the invoice.
Shipping Location - Where your inventory will be deducted from. You may add any quantity of items to your invoice, regardless of what is currently in stock.
The Customer is the one receiving and paying the invoice. They can be created on the spot along with the invoice.
NOTE: Customers can be created on the Customers tab as well. There, you can add details and create them in bulk or individually.
Invoice Type - either Regular or Wholesale depending on who you are selling to.
Wholesale will give you the option to add a pricelist. For more information on Wholesale & Pricelists, click here.
Adding your Products
After filling out the top section of the invoice (Invoice No., Due Date, Shipping Location, and Customer), you can start adding products!
There are two different ways to add products to your invoice:
1 ) Scan to add products
Each scan will count as a +1 for that item. A successful scan will produce a pleasant chime sound from your computer.
Scan a product that still needs to be created in Thrive (or isn't available at the Shipping Location), and you'll see an error message at the top of the screen, along with a not-so-pleasant noise.
You can also manually edit the quantities as well. Remember to click off the quantity field when you start scanning again. This is important because the scanner pretends to be a keyboard in Thrive. Clicking on any blank white space in the invoice will deselect any text fields and allow you to scan normally.
The ability to scan to add products on invoices is for users on a Professional Plan and above (learn more about upgrading your plan here).
Have issues scanning?
We can help! Check out this Barcode Scanning FAQ article for guidance.
2) The "Add Products" button
By clicking the blue "Add Products" button on the Invoice screen, you can filter and search to add products.
If you are wanting to add a large number of products from a particular category or vendor, be sure to press the "Load All" as shown here:
NOTE: if a shipping location is not already selected, you cannot click the "Add Products" button.
Once products have been added, be sure to enter a quantity along with any additional fields including:
Compare At (price)
Tax Rate
Or apply to the overall invoice in the next section
Expiration Date
Discount
Or apply to the overall invoice in the next section
PO Number
Lot Number
Note
Additional Details, Discounts, and Net Terms
At the bottom of the invoice, you can add discounts, shipping costs, taxes, net terms, and any additional notes, along with your subtotal and total after discounts and shipping.
Additional details:
Discount Name (for the entire invoice)
Discount - either a dollar amount ($) or percentage (%)
Shipping Price is passed on to your customer and included in the Total due. It is not taxed.
Taxes for the overall invoice. (NOTE: The taxes for individual items can also be adjusted above for each line item).
If you don’t change this setting, we’ll use the tax rates you’ve already set for each product in the inventory section. If you want to choose a different tax rate just for this invoice, you can do that or elect not to apply any taxes.
Things to note about invoice discounts:
Line item discounts are specific to one product. This can be a flat value or percentage. Percentage discounts are rounded to the nearest cent.
After line items have been calculated, any invoice discounts are distributed proportionally between all the line items.
In the event of multiple invoice discounts, fixed-amount discounts are handled first, followed by percentage discounts.
Taxes are calculated after discounts have been applied.
Net terms:
This field is typically only used on invoicing and means the number of days the total amount is due for payment. This does not affect the Due Date in the previous section, but Net Terms are more to be used as a reference of when to expect full payment.
Sending and Collecting Payment
When your invoice is finalized and the draft is saved, just hit Send! We’ll email your customer their invoice with a button to pay online. All they have to do is click the link to enter a credit card and pay the balance.
If your customer is present and wants to pay with a credit card, you will be able to do that once the Invoice is officially in Open status. Just scroll down and you'll be able to Log an Offline Payment.
Additional Actions
Send another email to your customer plus additional customers with the invoice link
Download a file for printing
See your customer’s view of the invoice (and enter a credit card payment)
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If you collect any other payment types, you can log an “Offline payment” and it will be deducted from the balance due.
Partial payments can be made offline, but card payments via Stripe will always be for the total remaining balance.
The application fee for card payments is 3.5%.
Fulfillment
Invoices can be fulfilled before or after payment is made. To mark an invoice as Fulfilled and remove all inventory from stock, click in the top right corner:
This action fulfills the whole order, thereby adjusting your inventory counts, and cannot be undone.
Refunds or Canceling
Refunds can be issued for specific items, or a custom amount, in the form of original payment. If a customer splits their payment between online and offline payment types, there will be multiple refunds.
The refund amount cannot exceed the amount paid for the same method. For example, an online payment of $ 100 can be refunded for up to $100, even if the invoice is for more.
When a refund is given, you can restock the inventory at the shipping location.
The option to cancel an invoice can be found at the bottom of the page, as shown here (above the timeline):
Settings and More
You can add custom text from your Invoice Settings, which will appear at the bottom of your invoices. This is a great place to specify your return policy, privacy details, and company info or say thanks. Changes made to email blurbs will be applied to all invoices past and present.
Tracking number
You can use this field to store a tracking number or link for any shipments to refer back to it later.
Reporting
To see all regular (and wholesale) invoice payments and refunds for a given date or date range, refer to the following reports:
Invoices will show up here when a payment (or partial payment) is received.
If a refund is made on a different day, that will be reflected on the date it was refunded.
Invoice sales will only show up here once the invoice is fulfilled.
Use the Filters (by Integration > Shopventory Invoicing) to see only invoiced products or orders.
Things to Note:
Payouts will come from Stripe directly. If you would like to learn more, please click here.
Invoicing is only intended for use in the United States. Tax and regulatory requirements may differ in other countries, and all current processing is handled based on U.S. rules.
The minimum amount for each invoice is USD 0.50D or equivalent in charge currency. Read more here.