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Clear invoice formatting improves transparency, strengthens controls against invoice fraud, and helps produce more accurate financial statements when invoices are correctly accounted and posted. 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Better invoices  \nwith all the needed information:  \n• enable automation, which in turn reduces your handling costs.  \n• guarantee a smooth, end-to-end procure-to-pay process.  \n• enable transparency.  \n• reduce the risk of invoice fraud.  \n• improve the quality of your financial statements when invoices are accounted and posted correctly.  \nLet your vendors know what information you want on your purchase invoices  \n1. The word Invoice (or Credit invoice);  \n2. A unique Invoice number  \n3. Date of the invoice  \n4. Supplier name and contact details Company identifier details of the seller, if relevant  \n(e.g DUNS, EIN, ABN, VAT Number)  \n5. Buyer company name and possible other parties (Buyer, Receiver, Payer)  \n6. Delivery date of the goods or the service  \n7. Purchase-order number (or similar tracking numbers requested by the buyer to be mentioned on the invoice) and possible packing slip numbers  \n8. Other references e.g. cost center, contract number or contact reference  \n9. Description of the products  \n10.Unit prices of the products and quantity, tax information if applicable  \n11. Total amount charged  \nwith currency (symbol or abbreviation);  \n12. Payment/Credit terms (Due date, possible cash discounts and details about charges for late payments)  \n13. Payment details or how to pay the invoice (Information for making an electronic transfer and possible reference number or other payment information including acceptable methods of payment)  \n2  \n12  \n1  \n3  \n7  \n10  \n11  \n© Dooap 2020 [dooap.com](dooap.com)  \nMore specifically – how?  \n1. Having the word “Invoice” clearly stated helps to distinguish receipts, account statements etc. from invoices and you are not wasting time on scanning something that is not needed.  \n2. A Unique Invoice number should be a minimum requirement. This is the key for not having duplicate invoices. Some utility companies or rent invoices don’t have an invoice number, so make sure you have a clear protocol on how to set the invoice number if it is missing. E.g typing the month/year always in the same format. This way no duplicates happen.  \n3. Date of the invoice is an important search criteria when getting vendor calls on invoices. Vendor invoicedate can also be defaulted to be the most probable accounting date for your invoice.  \n4. Supplier name and contact details are used to recognize the correct vendor. Using a unique identifier like DUNS number would be very efficient for assuring the validity of a vendor. Did you know that some authorities require the EIN number on the invoices? What a good way to recognize the vendor!  \n5. If you have multiple companies as part of a group, it is important to recognize the correct receiver automatically. Also, for determining what the invoice isabout, it is usually crucial for AP and automation to have some sort of key words like a person’s name responsible for the ordering.  \n6. Delivery date of the goods or service helps to determine the accounting period and to find the correct event that we are invoicing. Imagine having invoices for professional [services e.g. legal](services e.g. legal) services without knowing which day they are invoicing.  \n7. One PO per invoice is the best way to enable automation as invoices are most likely to “match”. Only the real discrepancies are left for manual handling and all others can be automatically posted with 3-way matching.  \n8. With e-invoices, it is actually possible to have the coding delivered by the vendor along with the invoice, but also just having the reference of a cost center ora project is a big benefit for AP to determine what the invoice is about, and where it is going.  \n9. Description of the products is obviously important, but sometimes even mandatory. 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