The Imported Billing Number feature provides you with an alternative way to group your imported invoices at the site level for consolidated presentation of billing. You supply the value for the billing number and then create your own custom consolidated bill formats.

AutoInvoice has been enhanced to accept the billing number when you use this alternative method. You can use existing receipt application functionality which allows you to match your customer to their payments using this billing number.

When the Imported Billing Number feature is activated, AutoInvoice validates all of the invoices imported under a single bill. For all invoices grouped under one bill, AutoInvoice checks each invoice to ensure that:

• all invoices have the same customer bill-to address. (If any single invoice from the group fails the validation, then all of the invoices belonging to this bill will be rejected.)

• the Imported Billing Number is unique for the given operating unit.

To use the Imported Billing Number feature:

1. Set up the customer profile to enable Balance Forward Billing. Select Imported as the format.

   Attention: The Imported format is available only if you select site as the Bill Level.

2. Run AutoInvoice to populate the CONS_BILLING_NUMBER column in the RA_INTERFACE_LINES table.

   Note: This lets you group invoices under one bill even if the invoices have different payment terms, receipt methods, payment details, PO numbers, or invoicing rules, as long as they are all addressed to the same customer bill-to address.

3. Generate custom invoices.