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CreatingYourFirstInvoice

Start EasyInvoice and change settings at start mask as demanded:

  • adapt taxes, billing year & language:
    EasyInvoice

Select tab Customers and create your first customer:

  • activate the checkbox "Sender" for Customers who are the sender of an invoice
  • fill field "Name" with "Joe"
  • fill field "Last Name" with "Sender"
  • fill field "UID" with "AT123321"
  • press button "Add"
    -> a new customer was created (and saved to database) and is now visible in the list of available customers

newCustomer

Now it's time to update the new customer with new adress, telephone and bank:

  • select the new customer from the list of available customers
  • right of the field "Adress" press the button "Modify" (the button is active if the customer is selected)
  • fill adress fields with data of your customer's adress
  • press button "Add"
    -> a new adress was created (and saved to database) and is now visible in the list of available adresses
    -> this list of adresses is ONLY available for the selected customer (each customer can have a unique list of adresses)

newAdress

After pressing the button "Assign" the new created adress (or a selected one) will be the adress visible at the invoice.

The same procedure should be done for the Telephone and the Bank.

Select tab Articles and create your first article:

  • fill field "Unit" with "hours"
  • fill field "Description" with "my great service #1"
  • fill field "Price" with "99"
  • fill field "Tax" with "20"
  • press button "Add"
    -> a new article was created (and saved to database) and is now visible in the list of available articles

newArticle

Select tab Invoices and create your first invoice:
After preparing customers and their adresses, banks and telephones it's really time to create the first invoice!

  • fill the field "Invoice-Nr." with a valid pattern eg B16.001
    -> a capital letter followed by 2 digits followed by a dot followed by 3 digits (last digit not 0)
  • fill the fields "Date" and "Pay Until" with valid dates
  • select a customer from the combo box "Sender"
  • select a customer from the combo box "Receiver"
  • press the button "Add"
    -> a new invoice was created (and saved to database) and is now visible in the list of available invoices

newInvoice

For adding invoice positions to the selected new invoice press the button "Add" at the area "Invoice Positions".

The tab Invoice-Position is selected and now create your first invoice position:

  • select an article from the combo box "Article"
  • fill the field "Quantity" with the value "160"
  • press the key "Tab" at your keyboard
    -> the field "Amount" is now filled with a calculated value
    Price of article x Quantity

newInvoicePosition

  • press button "Save"

newInvoiceWithPosition

For adding text blocks to the selected new invoice press the button "Add" at the area "Textblocks".

The tab Textblocks is selected and now create your first text block:

  • fill the field "Description" with the value "time range"
  • fill the field "Quantity" with the value "time range: 2016-09-01 to 2016-09-30"

newInvoiceTextblock

  • press button "Save"

newInvoiceComplete

Last but not least we can print or save the final invoice:

  • press button "Print"

ExampleInvoice


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