This article guides you through the various ways to create (non-Sales Pipeline) invoices, how to generate them, and other frequently asked questions about Artlogic invoices.
Video tutorial
How to sell an item
See this guide for how to sell an item in your database.
For Sales Pipeline (beta) users, learn more about creating invoices here.
Editing your invoice
Once you have chosen which artwork/s to sell, you will then be able to make edits to your invoice.
Steps
(Sales Pipeline users can skip to step 3.)
- Add a contact to whom the invoice will be addressed.
In case the contact name is not selectable, you will need to double-check to make sure 'Blocked from invoicing' hasn't been enabled in the contact record.
- Add artworks and reorder your selection.
- Once your artwork/s have appeared in your invoice you may see a warning sign to notify you of a discrepancy. You are able to follow the advice provided or dismiss this warning. If the warning is the same as the below image, you'll just need to ensure the invoice type and VAT in the invoice Settings match the artwork/s chosen.
- Next, you'll want to begin customising your invoice. We recommend beginning in 'Settings'. Here exist the majority of display options, including the invoice type: standard, margin scheme or three way split in Settings.
- Choose your currency. You are able to also show 2 currencies side by side. Add an exchange rate in Settings to see enable this.
- Customise currencies in your database by going to Database > Accounts > Value lists > Currencies.
- Add VAT and/or discounts - this can be done for overall invoice or per artwork (monetary or percentage), and artist resale rights.
- Customise your VAT rates by going to Database > Accounts > Value lists > Tax statuses.
- Edit the display settings, like enabling headers and footers.
- See these guides for creating document templates and managing templates for invoices.
- Add any sundry items like shipping and/or framing.
- Add your invoice terms, which can be saved for ease of use next time.
Draft Invoices
When you first create an invoice, before you generate it into a full invoice, it will be saved as a draft.
Draft invoices will not automatically be assigned an invoice number, they will instead be shown with a dash and be pulled to the top of your invoices page for visibility.
If you want your draft invoice to be assigned an invoice number, you can easily do so by clicking on the invoice number field and then either entering the number manually, or clicking to 'Assign next highest automatically'. You will see that invoice number be assigned to your draft, you can then click save.
Generate your sales invoice
When you have finished editing your invoice, complete your invoice by firstly clicking Save > Action.
Here, you'll be able to choose from options to:
- Preview proforma invoice.
- Generate proforma invoice.
- Preview sales invoice.
- Generate sales invoice.
Your invoice must be saved, have a selected contact and artwork to be generated.
Generating your invoice will sell the artwork/s, which will automatically update your artwork records and associated contacts.
It will also allow you to download your chosen invoice as a Word doc (so that you can make further manual edits) or PDF. You can then save this on your system as a pdf, for example, and send it to your clients.
Editing already generated invoices
You are able to make edits to the content of your invoice, including to the artworks, after they have been generated.
Regenerate an invoice
In order to show any edits made to invoices that were previously generated you will need to click Action > Regenerate invoice to update relevant records. This option allows you to update payments, to see payment history and to create credit notes.
View your invoice history
- Go to your Database > Accounts > Invoices
- Or, Database > Accounts > Accounts records. Here, you will be able to see your individually sold artworks.
Find and download your account reports
Go to:
- Accounts > Accounts reports and exports
- Then, add specific details of the invoices you wish to create a report of.
- Download report.
- Choose from the list of 11 different report types, such as 'custom export', which will reveal all associated data.
By clicking Export all data from the spreadsheet created, you will generate your excel file, which you can then import into your relevant accounting software (i.e. Sage, Xero, QuickBooks etc). Though we are aware of the demand for Artlogic to integrate with third party accounting software, this is not yet available.