subject: Sales invoice template: An information guide [print this page] Sales invoice template: An information guide
Sales invoice is the most important part of any business and plays significant role in transactions. A sales invoice template differs from company to company. These differences are due to different needs of different industries. For example: If you are a table manufacturer and your buyers are schools and some individual clients. Here comes the difference; when you are supplying goods to schools then you have to be very particular with your sales invoice because it is an institution and have some rules and regulations which every seller has to follow. As the buyer is an individual, he is liberal towards the seller. Suppose by mistake, you forgot to enter delivery order number in your invoice then you can contact the buyer and clarify it.
Thus sales invoice help you in following ways:
To segregate your products under taxable or non-taxable goods.
It helps in calculating sales tax to individual units.
It helps to manage inventory.
It enhances seller buyer relationship for further dealings.
The list is endless. Sometimes, it happens when some discrepancy arises with the delivery of shipment or condition of goods or packaging etc. All these issues can be resolved by simply looking into sales invoice, this saves lot of time.
A sales invoice provides crystal clear information about everything related to sales. It includes mode of payment, date of dispatching goods, date of delivery of goods etc. Sales invoice is also helpful in searching goods from inventory with product code. Every product in inventory has been given a unique code. A seller has large number of sales invoice with him, so to manage them properly, all invoices have given a number named as invoice number' and this number is in serial. The numbers enables people to search for the invoice, faster.
