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Send an invoice and understand Draft, Sent, Partial, Paid, and Overdue

Deliver the correct invoice, use reminders/revocation appropriately, and interpret its status from actual ledger activity. Follow the current customer-facing workflow and verify access, status, and resulting records before continuing.

6 min read Updated Company admin, accounting manager

Before you begin

  • Audience: Company admin, accounting manager.
  • Saved invoice
  • recipient
  • email configuration
  • send permission
  • valid public link.

Sales → Invoices (#/invoices) → open invoice; public document #/public/documents/:token

Send an invoice and understand Draft, Sent, Partial, Paid, and Overdue

  1. Open the workspace

    In JobBuddy, go to Sales → Invoices (#/invoices) → open invoice; public document #/public/documents/:token.

  2. Confirm access and starting state

    Saved invoice; recipient; email configuration; send permission; valid public link.

  3. Complete the main setup

    Use lifecycle table for DRAFT/SENT/PARTIAL/PAID/OVERDUE

  4. Review the important choices

    explain send and issued document, reminders, revocation, recipient/link troubleshooting, balance recalculation, overdue timing, and separate QuickBooks badge/state.

  5. Check status and follow-up

    Do not suggest manually forcing a ledger-derived status.

  6. Verify the result

    Deliver the correct invoice, use reminders/revocation appropriately, and interpret its status from actual ledger activity.

    Expected result: Deliver the correct invoice, use reminders/revocation appropriately, and interpret its status from actual ledger activity.

Troubleshooting

The page, control, or action is unavailable.

Confirm the required access and starting state: Saved invoice; recipient; email configuration; send permission; valid public link.

The result is incomplete or unexpected.

Status is partly derived from balance and due date; send/remind/revoke affect communication/link state, while payments affect Partial/Paid and time affects Overdue. QuickBooks status is a separate sync dimension.

The issue remains after checking the record.

Capture the exact visible error, record status, approximate time, and intended result. Give support only the minimum customer-safe evidence needed to trace the problem.

What happens next

  • Deliver the correct invoice, use reminders/revocation appropriately, and interpret its status from actual ledger activity.
  • Review the resulting record, status, notifications, and related history before continuing downstream work.
  • Use the related guide when the next action belongs to another JobBuddy workflow.
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