Invoice Template Configuration Example

Summary

This guide covers the process of creating basic invoice template configuration in LogiSense Billing and provides a sample layout design with an invoice summary page. LogiSense Billing utilizes Microsoft Word and mail merge to generate invoice templates.

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Word is required for invoice layout design

Sample Configuration

Download Invoice Template Variables in LogiSense Billing

1. Log into the LogiSense Billing application

2. Click on the Setup menu, Extensibility and then Templates

   

3. On the Templates screen select the included system default invoice template on the left and then in the Edit Template panel on the right click the Field Tagger button to load the list of available variables

   

4. On the Variables modal that loads the variables that can be used in templates will be listed. To download the complete list of variables click the Download CSV button

   

You can now reference the csv file to look up variables that correspond to the data you want to display on your invoice template.

Create the Invoice Layout in Word

1. Open up Microsoft Word

2. Design the summary page as below:

   1. Add information in the header e.g. logo, company address, basic invoice information like “Invoice Number” etc.

   2. Add headings, support contact, billing contact information, charges summary, total amount etc.

   3. Add company head office address in footer

   4. Update the values for the mail merge fields with token values (steps included after template sample below)

   

Updating invoice tokens

The sample here shows how to add a variable to display the billing contact’s name after the ‘ATTN’ text.

1. Click after the ATTN: text on the Word document and press CTRL+F9. A set of curly braces will appear as shown in the image below

   

2. Right-click within the curly braces and the following options will appear

   

3. Click on Edit Field… and the Field window will load

   

   1. On the left select MergeField from the Field names: list

   2. Next paste the variable account.billingContact.name in the Field name field shown under the Field properties section

   3. Click the OK button

The token will be added in the document as shown below:

4. Repeat the steps above to add additional variables on the Word document

Upload the Invoice Template to LogiSense Billing

1. Log into the LogiSense Billing application

2. Click on the Setup menu, Extensibility and then Templates

   

3. Click the button to add new Invoice template

   

4. Fill out the template details (sample configuration settings shown below)

   

5. Upload the Microsoft Word invoice template document by clicking on Upload button and selecting the Word document you created

   

6. Click Save to save the invoice template configuration

Result

The invoice summary page will appear as below after billing of account.

Next Steps

• Billing settings need to be configured in order to classify customers, define their settings and bill them. See the Bill Group Configuration Example article for an example on how to configure a bill group