How to invoice another partner than the customer?

Question

Sometimes our customers ask for our work to be invoiced to a third company with different VAT number (e.g. a renting company, or a sub-contracted company)
The whole business negotiation, the delivery of goods and services, etc. is done with the customer, but the bill must be made to the renting company or the subcontractor.
Is there any way to handle this in Odoo?

Ray Carnes (ray) · Accepted Answer

You can edit the information on a Customer Invoice before clicking CONFIRM:

If you sell to Deco Addict but you want to have Azure Interior pay the Invoice, you would adjust the Customer and  Delivery Address to look like this:

If you use the CREATE INVOICE button on the Sales Order you will see it linked in the Smart Button:

So, even though someone else is paying for S00042, Odoo retains the link.

Hamid Ahmadimoghaddam · Answer

Basically, you have to have another contact; especially when you have to handle VAT number and/or fiscal position.
Go to Settings-> Sales --> Quotation & Orders: enable the option "Customer Addresses".
Now in the offer creation you have a new field for invoice address.
If the third company is related to the main customer, you can create a new contact as "Invoice Address" in the main customer and use this one. Since it will a new contact, you can also set new VAT.

MATSAS Alain · Answer

As far as I can see, the VAT field is not available for input when creating a new "invoice address" type contact (as child of an existing enterprise contact). Hence, the VAT number of the main (parent) contact will be reused.
Because indeed, what if the goal is to make this link permanent between the two enterprises: when delivering to enterprise A, I always want enterprise B to be the invoiced partner.

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