How to Create a Customer Invoice in Odoo Accounting?

If you’re wondering how to create a customer invoice in Odoo 18, you’ve come to the right place. Invoicing is a key part of any business. It helps you get paid for the products or services you sell. Odoo 18 makes this task easier with its built-in Accounting module.

With just a few clicks, you can create professional-looking invoices, send them to your customers, and track payments. This blog will show you how to do it step by step, even if you’re a beginner.

Follow This Step-by-Step Guide to Create, Validate, and Register Payments for Customer Invoices in Odoo.

Step 1: Create customer invoice

• Go to accounting module
• Customers→invoices
• Create a new invoice by clicking on the ‘New’ button

• Fill out the details and confirm

• After confirming the invoice, you need to pay by clicking on the “pay” button

• After clicking on Create Payment, the status will change to “In Payment”

Step:2 Reconcile the payment

Follow this steps for reconcile the payment:

• Go to accounting dashboard and click on bank transactions

• Add customer name, product amount and invoice number
• Match entries and click on validate button

• After validation, the payment status is set to ‘Paid’.
• You can simply click the Print button to print the customer invoice.

• Here you will get a “Printed invoice”

Conclusion

Customer invoices in Odoo play a vital role in business operations by streamlining billing, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and improving cash flow. Whether generated manually or from sales orders, Odoo makes the invoicing process efficient, traceable, and fully integrated with the accounting workflow.

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