Re-invoice expenses to customers

It often happens that your employees have to spend their personal money while working on a project for your client. Let’s take the example of a consultant paying for a hotel to work on the site of your client. As a company, you would like to be able to invoice that expense to your client.

Expenses configuration

To track & invoice expenses, you will need the expenses app. Go to Apps ‣ Expenses to install it.

You should also activate the analytic accounts feature to link expenses to the sales order, to do so, go to Invoicing ‣ Configuration ‣ Settings and activate Analytic Accounting.

Add expenses to your sales order

From the expense app, you or your consultant can create a new one, e.g. the hotel for the first week on the site of your customer.

You can then enter a relevant description and select an existing product or create a new one from right there.

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Here, we are creating a Hotel product:

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Under the invoicing tab, select Delivered quantities and either At cost or Sales price as well depending if you want to invoice the cost of your expense or a previously agreed on sales price.

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To modify or create more products go to Expenses ‣ Configuration ‣ Expense products.

Back on the expense, add the original sale order in the expense to submit.

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It can then be submitted to the manager, approved and finally posted.

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It will then be in the sales order and ready to be invoiced.