Sales  Documents

Finishing and resuming recurring invoices 

Finishing and resuming recurring invoices allows you to halt the automatic generation of sales invoices and restart them if needed. These features are useful for managing changes in service delivery or customer needs without having to recreate the entire recurring invoice schedule. Finishing a recurring invoice sets the end date to the current date, effectively


Generating recurring sales invoices 

Sage Active can simplify your sales process by automatically generating invoices at regular intervals, such as daily, weekly, monthly, annually and more. These invoices are commonly used for subscription services, memberships, or any other type of ongoing service or product. To begin generating recurring invoices for a customer, simply create a recurrence template that includes


Personalising sales document numbers 

You can effortlessly personalise the format of your sales document numbers to suit your specific needs. To customize your sales document numbers, start by creating one or more Sequence numbers for each document type. These Sequence numbers act as templates for your document number layout. When generating a sales document, simply select the appropriate sequence


Managing advance payment invoices 

When creating sales documents like quotes, orders, delivery notes or invoices, you can request an advance payment from your customer. Sage Active streamlines this process by allowing you to easily formalise the advance payment through an advance payment invoice, directly based on the current sales document. Managing your advance payment invoice involves several steps: Create


Using DOM VAT rates in sales documents 

When you trade with the overseas departments of France you can set up your products and services and customers to easily navigate to complexities that come with the different VAT rates involved. Prerequisites The option VAT rates for overseas departments (DOM) is activated in the Sales and purchases settings. Optionally the Product tax group in the Sales


Managing Cash VAT for sales documents 

While recording sales documents, Sage Active will by default propose the same cash VAT settings as set up in the Legal obligations tab of the Business management settings. You can however choose this setting on a per document basis if you need to. To manage the cash VAT setting when creating a sales document: Create


Showing the most recent sales invoices for a customer 

While checking a customer’s information or sales invoices, you can easily view the 3 most recent sales invoices for the customer using Copilot Insights. To see the most recent invoices for a customer: Open the customer’s information or a sales invoice. Third parties > Customers Sales > Sales invoices Open the Copilot screen (Copilot Insights).


Showing quotes over 7 days old and sending reminders 

You can easily see a list of your pending quotes over 7 days old using Copilot Insights. To see your quotes over 7 days old: Open the Dashboard or Sales quotes list. Dashboard Sales > Sales quotes Open the Copilot screen (Copilot Insights). Choose the prompt View quotes over 7 days old if you have


Showing sales invoices due in 7 days and sending reminders 

You can easily see a list of your sales invoices due in the next 7 days using Copilot Insights. To see your sales invoices due in the next 7 days: Open the Dashboard, the Sales invoices list or a specific sales invoice. Dashboard Sales > Sales invoices Open the Copilot screen (Copilot Insights). Choose the


Showing overdue sales invoices and sending reminders 

You can easily see a list of your overdue sales invoices using Copilot Insights. To see your overdue sales invoices: Open the Dashboard, the Sales invoices list or a specific sales invoice. Dashboard Sales > Sales invoices Open the Copilot screen (Copilot Insights). Choose the prompt View overdue sales invoices. Copilot generates an overview of your overdue sales



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