Invoices will record the sales transactions with your debtors from your stock code file. This source document will, once posted or updated to the ledger, record the sales, cost of sales transactions in the general ledger and update the debtor's ledger. It is strongly recommended that the Documents Setup for invoices be checked and set if necessary, before you proceed to process documents.

To Check and do a Documents Setup - Invoices:
Click on Setup - System Parameters - Documents menu option or press the and and and keys on your keyboard. The Documents Setup screen will be displayed.

Select the Invoices tab if not already displayed.


Select the following for the document layout, if necessary:

Option	Description
Layout file	You may select any of the available layout files with an .*frf extension (freeform format). These files are stored in the Bin/Reports folder of the TCASH3 directory or other directory in which TurboCASH is installed on your system. The layout of the documents may be edited in the Report Designer on the Tools menu.
Print standard logo	Select this field to print the address. If you have loaded a logo picture file in the Setup - System Parameters - Company Info (Options tab), the Company logo field must not be selected. If you wish to print the logo on your documents, you need to leave this field blank and select the Company logo field in the Setup - System Parameters - Company Info (Options tab) screen.
Print Frames	Select to print frames in the document layout. If left blank, only the data will be printed.
Auto-post documents on print	By default this field is not selected. This means that you need to post or update the documents from the Input - Update Ledger menu option. If you wish to update the documents automatically after a document is generated and printed, in the Input - Documents menu option, select this field. Only the documents which were generated, but not printed, need to be updated manually in the Input - Update Ledger menu option.
General numbers	This field will only be available and displayed if Users were created in the Setup - System Parameters - Access Control menu option. If this field is selected, you may select the user from a drop-downlist for which TurboCASH will use to generate document numbers. If the General numbers field is not selected (ticked), TurboCASH will generate the document numbers numerically.

Check, select and enter the following options:

Option	Description
Next Invoice No.	You may need to change the document number to suit your requirements. It is recommended that the document numbers be prefixed with at least 2 alpha-characters. This will enable you to identify the documents and transactions by document numbers.
Invoice Batch	The sales journal batch should usually be selected. This batch will record the transactions for all the invoices issued and when the document is posted or updated to the ledger, the transactions will be recorded in the selected batch (e.g. sales journal).
Paper Type	You may select any of the available paper types (Pre-printed, A4, Service, Plain Eyeline, Forty). Till slip is also available but should only be selected for Point-of-Sale Invoices.
Invoice Heading	The invoice heading should reflect Tax invoice if you are registered as a VAT Vendor. If you are not registered as a VAT vendor, you may remove the Tax from the heading.
Invoice Message	You may enter a standard message, which you wish, to display on all the invoices.
Layout file	You may select any of the available layout files with an .*frf extension (freeform format). These files are stored in the Bin/Reports folder of the TCASH3 directory or other directory in which TurboCASH is installed on your system. The layout of the documents may be edited in the Report Designer on the Tools menu.
Page Setup	If you have selected or if you may select a dot-matrix printer to print invoices, you need to set the paper size, margins, etc. for the dot-matrix printer.

Click on the Credit Notes or any other tab if you wish to check, select and enter details for any other document type. If you do not wish to select another document type, you may click on the button to save your changes and to close or exit this screen.