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Recurring Documents: Invoices, Bills, Journals
Recurring Documents: Invoices, Bills, Journals
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Written by Geoff Ostrega
Updated over 2 months ago

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Description

This feature allows users to create recurring journals, bills, and invoices based on a schedule and template.

Use Cases

  • Recurring Journal

    • Record monthly interest amortization

  • Recurring AR Invoice

    • Record revenue in a Monthly, Yearly subscription Invoices

  • Recurring AP Bills

    • Record expenses that are incurred monthly, i.e. software subscriptions

Creating a Recurring Journal

Create Template

First step is to Create a Journal Template

  1. Navigate to Financial ➝ Journal ➝ Journal Templates

  2. Click + New

  • Populate template fields - date fields are ignored, and are populated using the date the recurring entry is created.

Create a Recurring Journal Job

  1. Navigate to Financial ➝ Journal ➝ Recurring Journal

  2. Click +New

  • Populate the fields based on when you want the journal to be created

  • Name - name of recurring job, should be unique

  • Enabled - Toggle to engage journal creation, or can be turned off

  • Template - Select a created Journal Template

  • Interval Type - Choose between Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly

  • Interval Amount - Journal Creation Cadence (Must be an integer greater than 0)

  • Interval Day - Day to be posted, varies by Interval Type

    • i.e. Weekly "2" translates to - Journal posted weekly on Tuesday. (1-7, 1 = Monday, 7 = Sunday)

  • Start Date - First day to attempt to run the job

  • End Date - Last day to attempt to run the job

Viewing Job Status

  1. Navigate to Admin ➝ System Jobs

    • This provides a list of all system jobs (including bulk uploads)

    • Recurring Documents will have type = Recurring_doc

  • You can click on the name of the job to see the details of why it failed, or the document that was created

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