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Invoices and quotes

In Mercato, open Invoices & quotes and choose New invoice or New quote. Or type what you want into Ask to draft an invoice for…, for example "Jordan, house sitting Oct 2–6, 4 nights". Mercato proposes an invoice: items from your catalogue use their own price, and the customer is found in Thrive. Nothing is saved until you open it in the editor and save it.

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Writing one

  • Bill to: find a Thrive contact, or type a name and email. Someone new is added to Thrive the first time the invoice is sent; Mercato never makes a second contact for an email address Thrive already has.
  • What it is for: add your own lines, or Add from services and products.
  • Payment: when it is due, a discount, and a deposit to ask for first.
  • An invoice that charges tax needs the customer's address.

The amounts on the editor are a preview. Mercato works out the discount, tax and what is due when you save.

Sending it

Save and send asks how: by email, by text, or both. Texting works once your account has texting set up in Tellagent; until then the text option says why it is unavailable. The invoice gets its number (for example INV-1042) the first time you send it, and a pay link. Anyone with the link sees that one invoice and nothing else; voiding the invoice turns the link off.

If you choose Mark as sent instead, nothing is emailed and you can copy the link yourself.

Getting paid

  • Online: once Stripe is connected (Payouts & payments), customers pay by card on the invoice's page. Card details go to Stripe, never to you or to VeraGen.
  • Offline: Record a payment for cash, a check or a bank transfer. Part payments are fine; the invoice shows what is left.
  • Reminders are emailed before and after the due date, as set in Settings, once per reminder. A subscription paid by card gets no invoice reminders: its retries and their emails take their place (see Subscriptions).
  • A refund is made by an owner or admin, from the invoice.

Quotes

Send a quote the same way. The customer can accept it from its link. Convert to invoice makes an invoice with the same lines.

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