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Standalone Invoice

Sometimes the exchange of the documents does not require confirmations and negotiations from both sides, i.e. the buyer and seller companies. There are processes when one company just sends a document and this should always result in the creation of the same document at an intercompany partner's side. The example of such a process is a service invoice.

Standalone invoice process diagram

Note

In this scenario, an invoice document is created, instead of an order and the process is initiated at the SELLER company.

Processing Standalone Invoice

A standalone invoice is a specific type of a sales invoice document. To create and process a standalone invoice:

  1. Create a new sales invoice document and select an IC customer in the Sell-to Customer No. field.
  2. Prepare the document and fill in the invoice lines.
  3. Select the IIC Standalone Invoice field in the General FastTab.
Note

If you forget to select the IIC Standalone Invoice field and a sales invoice contains only lines of the following types: G/L Account, Resource, Charge (Item), during the sales invoice release, the application will ask you, if the document should be converted to the standalone invoice.

  1. Release the sales invoice document. Once released, the standalone invoice does not need to be negotiated. Its IIC Status remains blank, so managing the status (opening/releasing) can be performed with no limitations.
  2. Post the standalone sales invoice.
Important

The standalone invoices can be sent after posting.

  1. Go to the Posted Sales Invoices page, find a related document, and use the IIC Send action.
  2. Make sure that outbound messages have been sent to the BUYER company.
  3. Switch to the BUYER company.
  4. When a standalone invoice is sent to the BUYER company, it is placed in the IIC purchase buffer. Go to the IIC purchase buffer, validate and accept the buffer document. As the result, the purchase invoice will be created with the IIC Status Code field set to STANDALONE.
Note

Standalone purchase invoices can be automatically released, when the Auto Release Standalone Invoices field is selected on the IIC Setup page.