Discover the Typical Invoice Format for NPOs to Streamline Your Invoicing Process

Typical invoice format for NPOs

Welcome to QuickBooks Online for Nonprofits. My name is Ufuoma Ogaga, I am the owner of Goshen ... Bookkeeping & Consulting. I am a Financial Controller and QuickBooks ProAdvisor ... helping nonprofits to increase profitability one mission at a time. In today's tutorial, I will show you how to create ... an invoice in QuickBooks Online. Only use the invoice feature in QuickBooks Online to ... pledges for donors if you don't have an external ... donation system or an external donor database system. Or if you are providing a service to your members ... such as collecting, dues payment, or if you are collecting ... program fees, like youth fees or if you are ... billing your building tenants for renting your facilities. These instances as a nonprofit that you need to ... use the invoice feature in QuickBooks Online to invoice ... your customers to request they pay you at a later time. The account that you use when you invoice and when ... customers owe you money is actually called accounts ... receivable. So, I am going to show create an invoice in QuickBooks Online. We are going to click on the Quick Create plus icon, and you going to select invoice under the customers heading. This is your invoice entry screen. Here you want to choose your member or your donor name. I am going to choose the John foundation one or the Servantkeeper one that we ... created before. In the email field, you can enter an email address. You can cc yourself or blind copy yourself for this invoice. I do recommend blind copying yourself in all emails, whether it is invoices and sales receipt that you send ... out of QuickBooks Online. I am going to select my invoice terms as Net 30 or ... leave it as Net 30. I am going to enter an invoice date. I will leave mine as the 27th. QuickBooks Online will ... automatically calculate the due date for you based on ... the invoice terms that you chose. So, you due date will ... automatically be calculated for you. You can manually change that if you want to. I tend to leave it as the default. Since we are tracking the conditions of our donations ... and the conditions of our funds, under the division, also known as location ... tracking, you can select with donor ... restrictions or without donor restrictions depending on ... what type of fund this is going to be. I will select without donor restrictions. Under the product/service leave the category blank for now since this is just an ... example. I am going to select General ... Fund. I am going to change my ... income account. Or probably leave it as is ... since it is just an example and make this not taxable. And just click save and close. Description field, you can enter the purpose of the invoice that way the ... customer, or the stakeholder, or the member knows what this invoice if for. Quantity leaving that as 1. And enter a 100 dollars or a 1000 as my pledge amount. Since I chose the class when I created my service item, you will see that QuickBooks automatically populated the ... class field for me. If you didn't choose a class ... previously, you will have to manually ... select a class in this area. Here if you are collecting sales tax, that's the option of where you can choose the state that you ... are collecting sales tax for. You can enter a discount by percent or a discount by a ... dollar amount there. Under the message ... displayed on invoice, this is where you get to enter ... a nice simple short message that just says thank you for your business, thank you for donation or thank you for your pledge. Something simple and short. You can also enter a ... payment link if you are using PayPal or another third party ... merchant processor like Stripe or Vanco, all of that. You can put a payment link ... in this field as well. The message displayed on statement, you can either repeat the message that you have on ... the invoice field in that field or leave it blank since this an ... invoice you are creating. In the attachment section, you can add any attachment ... you want to send with the invoice. So if this was a grant, and you need to send like receipts for reimbursement for the grant, use the attachment section to add those receipts Now at the bottom, you can print and preview the ... invoice. You can check th box to print ... later to print out a copy of the invoice later that way you can ... come back and do that. You can print and preview to ... just see how the invoice looks like. You can print out a packing slip. You can make this invoice recurring if this an amount ... you constantly charge the customer every single time. You can create a template that reoccurs every single time. You can click on the customize option to ... customize the sales forms. Now, I already did a separate video on how to customize your ... sales forms, so go ahead and pause this ... video. And go watch that video if ... you haven't done so. If you are just creating this, you can save where you are ... by clicking on the save button. You can click save and send and QuickBooks will ... automatically email the customer. You can save and close it. You can save and share a ... link. So, QuickBooks will allow you to save it and give you like a ... short link that you can type up your own personal email ... and send to the customer. I am just going to click save and close to complete this invoice. Here you are going to click on the open invoices money bar tab. And there is the Servantkeeper invoice that we ... created inside of QuickBooks Online. That is how to create an invoice in QuickBooks Online. Thank you for watching!