Invoice add-ons
Show payment due date: Tells TimeCache
to add an automatically calculated payment due date to the header
or footer of new invoices when this checkbox is checked.
Lead-in text: The text to use for the
label or in the field before (or surrounding) the date. By
including a placeholder for the date in the text you enter, you can
force TimeCache to construct a simple plain-text field (by default
— you can stylize with the normal invoice field tools). If you omit
the date placeholder, TimeCache creates a label from the text you
enter in this field, and enters the date as a plain text field
(also customizable). To use the date placeholder, type
<<Date>> wherever you want the date to appear. For
example, Please pay by
<<Date>> would appear on invoices as Please pay
by 5/4/2012, while Please pay by would
appear as Please pay by:
5/4/2012.
___ days past invoice date: Tells
TimeCache how many days to add to the invoice date for calculating
the due date.
Show in: Lets you choose to show the
payment due date in the invoice header
or footer. It can be moved from its
default position by editing the layout as described in How to move header and footer fields.
NOTE: Payment due date fields cannot be
added to invoice layouts that have already been saved, and
unchecking this option does not remove them from invoice layouts to
which they have been added. This setting only applies to new
invoice layouts you create from Default layouts.
Balance-forward settings
Interest: TimeCache can generate
invoices that include unpaid balances of
saved invoices, and those "balance forward" invoices can include an
interest amount. You set the rate that TimeCache should use to
calculate interest due in this field. Be sure to enter the
percentage as the percentage to be charged, not the multiplicand.
In other words, for a one-percent interest charge, enter “1”, not
“.01”.
You can change the interest amount that TimeCache calculates is due
before the invoice is prepared.
You may also want to change the default terms Previous balance and Interest that TimeCache uses in the Category column
of a balance forward invoice. You can change these on the Terminology panel of TimeCache Preferences. They
are in the Invoice Terms group in the
list on that panel.
After ___ days: Use this field to set
the period in days after which an interest charge is added to a
"balance forward" invoice. Note that TimeCache calculates a
multiple of the interest rate by the number of periods that have
passed. For example, with an interest rate of 1% and an interval of
30 days, after 60 days of non-payment, TimeCache would calculate an
interest charge of 2% (1% times two 30-day periods) for a new
balance forward invoice.
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