Billing Run : Overview
Understanding the Billing tab, Billing Runs.
A Billing Run turns everything that happened in a sale into Invoices and RCTIs - working out what each buyer owes and what each vendor is paid, ready to review, send, and optionally export and sync with Xero.
Before you start
- The Billing tab only appears on a sale if you have the Billing permission. Sundries needs Manual Charges permission, and Export needs Billing Run permission - you may see fewer steps than described here depending on your role's permissions.
- On mobile, only the Sundries step of Billing is available.
- Reference Sales skip straight to Review and don't show the full stepper, since they're an information record only, invoiced externally.
Create a Billing Run
If no Billing Run exists yet for the sale, the Overview step shows Create one now.
- Select Create one now.
- Choose the Rulebook that defines how charges are calculated. This can't be changed later.
- Adjust the auto-suggested Name if you want.
- Save.
Result: A new Billing Run is created with status Draft, and the stepper becomes available.
⚠️ Only ever create more than one Billing Run for the same sale if you're certain you need to - the app warns that multiple runs can cause export and data issues. It's rarely a good idea to do so.
The five steps, at a glance
| Step | What it's for | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Check ledger entries and warnings, and re-run the calculation if sale data has changed. | Read more |
| Sundries | Add manual, one-off charges. | Read more |
| Review | Check and approve what's about to be charged before it goes out. | Read more |
| Send | Email Invoices and Account Sales/RCTIs to buyers and vendors. | Read more |
| Export | Push finished documents to Xero or export to a file for other accounting systems. | Read more |
The Money section or a business's Transactions section
Every Invoice and Account Sale/RCTI a Billing Run produces shows up automatically in the Money section and a Business' Transactions table.
- The standalone Money screen (sidebar) shows billing documents across every business and Sale.
- The Transactions tab on a Business record shows the exact same data, filtered to just that business.
From either view you can open, edit, or resend a document, and its status updates live as it moves through Review, Send, and Export. Editing ledger entries or regenerating a document is only possible while its Billing Run is still Draft - once the Billing Run is Finished, those actions are disabled everywhere.
Troubleshooting
The Billing tab doesn't appear on the sale at all. This is permission-based - you need the Billing feature enabled for your role.
You can't delete a Billing Run. If any of its documents have already been exported to an active record in Xero, void or delete them there first - the app lists exactly which documents are blocking the delete.