Manual Regular Bill Generation Invoice Request

Once you manually create a regular bill generation invoice request for an account, the status of the invoice request is set to Draft. You can then submit the invoice request. You can optionally configure the approval process for the manual regular bill generation invoice request. If the Approval Required flag is set to Yes in the invoice request type, the status of the manual regular bill generation invoice request is changed to Approval In Progress when you submit the invoice request. The approver can then approve or reject the manual regular bill generation invoice request based on the observations.

On submitting or approving the invoice request, the system checks whether the number of the billable charges of the account exceeds the defer processing billable charge count. If the number of the billable charges of the account exceeds the defer processing billable charge count, the status of the invoice request is changed to Defer Processing. However, if the number of the billable charges of the account does not exceed the defer processing billable charge count, the system checks whether the processing date of the invoice request is earlier than or equal to the system date.

If the processing date is earlier than or equal to the system date, the system checks whether the pending bill already exists for the account. If the pending bill does not exist for the account, the system checks whether the cutoff date is later than the bill after date. If cutoff date is later than the bill after date, the system checks whether the accounting calendar is open for the accounting date. If the accounting calendar is open for the accounting date, the system creates the adhoc regular bill for the account in the online mode. Finally, the status of the invoice request is changed to Processed. But, if the pending bill exists for the account, or if the cutoff date is earlier than or equal to the bill after date, or if the accounting calendar is not open for the accounting date, or if an error occurs while creating adhoc regular bill or its bill segments, the status of the invoice request is changed to Error. The system enables you to move such erroneous invoice request back to the Draft status.

However, if the processing date is later than the system date, the status of the invoice request is changed to Defer Processing. On the C1-INVRQ batch execution, the system checks whether there are any invoice requests in the Defer Processing status. If there is an invoice request in the Defer Processing status, the system checks whether the processing date of the invoice request is earlier than or equal to the system date. If the processing date is earlier than or equal to the system date, the status of the invoice request is changed to Processing and the algorithm attached to the Processing status is invoked. However, if the processing date is later than the system date, the status of the invoice request remains as Defer Processing.