Billing can be a difficult task when it comes to handling many customers and orders every day. Komet Sales has a couple of options to help you create and send invoices to your customers automatically.

The automatic billing will invoice any boxes from Prebook or Standing Orders that meet the following criteria:

1. The items to invoice must be linked to a Standing Order or Prebook.
2. Customer is NOT on credit hold.
3. Customer is NOT over their credit limit.
4. The truck date is NOT in the past. You can configure a set number of days that can be used as a backup (e.g.: by using 1 day the system will still invoice items that were received today but were supposed to ship yesterday).
5. The inventory type is NOT "M" (Open Market).The customer type is NOT Future Sales.

This feature allows the system to automatically create invoices and print shipping labels for incoming products that are associated to a Prebook or Standing Order.

Follow these steps to set it up:

Follow these steps to set it up:

This option will allow the automatic billing process to be activated either by scanning of the incoming  product or manual confirmation from the Staging Area.

Follow these steps to set it up:

There will be cases in which the products from Prebooks or Standing Orders that are being confirmed or scanned as "Received" to the Inventory were already fulfilled. In some cases, the company user can choose how the system should handle these pre-sold items. Two options are available:

1. "be released into the open market inventory": The system will change the product to open market "M" and the customer assigned to product line item will be deleted.
2. "keep the customer in the inventory": The system will keep the customer and original inventory type for those goods that come from prebooks or standing orders that have been already fulfilled.
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When this option is activated, the system will not combine the same order products already received with those being still on transit (farm shipped) during the automatic billing and allocation processes. However, users will be able to manually combine orders from the Order Entry screen.

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By enabling this option, the system will combine items coming from Prebooks and SO's with those from Open Market on orders created through allocations (manual allocations and massive allocations) or automatic billing. If the setting is disabled, the system will separate the Open Market products on the orders from those coming from Prebooks and SO's,

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If this option is enabled, the system won't combine products coming from regular and double orders (holiday) during the automatic billing and allocation processes, even if they have the same products. However, users will be able to manually combine orders from the Order Entry screen. Remember that this option only applies to products in boxes.

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This option allows to set a number of days after the Ship Date of the Prebook within which the system will still carry out the automatic billing, even if the product is delayed regarding the Ship Date of the Prebook.

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This option will only be available when the setting Sell By Units and the automatic billing are activated. It allows billing units as boxes. In other words, if the prebook is created in units and then the product is transferred from the Staging to the Inventory, the system must automatically bill that product in boxes instead of units.

In the case of multilocation companies, the system allows you to select the location where you want this option applies:

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Allow users to allocate multiple prebook lines with the same PO line

Once the Prebooks in units must be billed as boxes option is enabled, the system will display an additional option called Allow users to allocate multiple prebook lines with the same PO line. If this option is enabled, the system will allow users to allocate under a single PO multiple Prebook lines having the same customer and carrier, even if the truck date is different. Once the user uses this option, the system will allocate using the same PO, different Prebooks. The Truck Date of the invoice will be given by the nearest Prebook in the future.

When leaving this option turned off, the system will only allow to use the PO line for the first Prebook allocated.

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Once the automatic billing is running the system will start creating invoices or using existing ones, considering the below:

• Products will be consolidated to the same invoice as long as the customer name, truck date, customer PO number, ship to information is the same and the status of the invoice is still "pending".
• If the system finds an invoice previously created that matches the information mentioned above, the confirmed items will be added to that invoice.

If there is an invoice that matches that information but it has open market items, the system will not add the confirmed items to that invoice but instead will create a new one.

When a prebook has been manually allocated the system will validate which of the boxes are pending to be billed. This way when the product arrives and it gets confirmed from the Staging Area to Inventory, the system will only invoice the pending items and the rest of them will be released to open market.

If a prebook has an item at $0.00 the system will invoice it using the suggested sales price (landed cost plus the company's GPM).