Processing bills and the purchase process
In the last section, we created a PO to begin the procure-to-pay process. In this section, we will dig a bit deeper into the billing process.
Let’s look at the bill that was created in the previous section. You can see it in Figure 8.8, and it is in the Awaiting Payment status.
Figure 8.8: The bill options
By clicking on the Bill Options button, we can do either of the following:
- Generate a repeating bill
- Void the current bill
- Copy the current bill to a new bill
- Edit the current bill
- Add a credit note
The preceding processes are exactly the same as those we covered in the last chapter for invoices. I suggest you go back to the last chapter to review how those processes are applied, use the same exact steps, and apply them to the bill instead of the invoice.
You have been reading about the similarities of the bill features to the invoice features in Xero. The same can...