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Invoicing from Budgets & Progress Billing

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Hi there,

I'm looking into moving my business across to Dynamics and I haven't been able to find a method of progress invoicing from a budget.

We are an professional services engineering firm where we competitively tender projects and invoice monthly based on progress.

Everything I've seen around invoicing seems to be on a "charge up" or "time and expense" basis which is not how our industry works.

Obviously being able to report budget vs actual is vitally important for our business. But regardless we have to bill based on the quoted budgets.

If the above is possible, my second question to that is: is there a way to cap the amount you can bill against each item (in our case an "item" would be a design phase) to prevent users from being able to over claim against a budget. While I like to think our people are thorough in there invoicing, mistake do happen and I'd prefer to be safe than look like an idiot.

Thanks in advance!

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    Hi Nik,

    Thank you for the questions. We did have a prior post with a very similar set of questions. Rather than re-invent the answer, can you refer to this thread to see if it will answer your questions: community.dynamics.com/.../216414

    As a brief summary, within the Jobs area of Dynamics 365 for Financials (business edition), items are defined as either Billable or Budget, or they can be both. The Billable lines would be the max that can be invoiced for that given line/job. Only lines with a Billable (or both Budget and Billable) designation can be invoiced.

    Do you have further questions after reviewing the detail in the thread noted above?

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    Hi Nik.  I am doing the same thing with the a similar business (need progress invoicing), or planning to.  I would love to hear how this activity and experience is going for you.  Thanks, Thomas

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