Invoices

Where your invoices live, what every status means, how to read an invoice document, and how to get a PDF copy.

Billing4 min read

On this page
  1. Where invoices live
  2. What each status means
  3. Overdue is not a badge
  4. Reading an invoice
  5. Getting a PDF
  6. What the list does not show
  7. Related

Every charge on your account becomes an invoice: a new order, a renewal, or anything else you buy. The Invoices page is the record of all of them, and the place you pay from.

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Where invoices live

Billing in the sidebar opens on Invoices. Four billing destinations sit in a tab strip across the top: Invoices, Payment methods, Credit & wallet, and Statements.

The list is one row per invoice:

ColumnWhat it holds
Invoice #The invoice number. Click anywhere on the row to open it.
IssuedThe date the invoice was raised.
DueThe date payment is expected.
StatusThe status badge, described below.
AmountThe invoice total, tax included.
BalanceWhat is still outstanding. Zero once an invoice is settled.

On a phone the table becomes a card list carrying the same figures, with the whole card as the tap target.

Above the table, four tabs filter the list and each carries a count: All, Unpaid, Overdue, and Paid. Unpaid deliberately covers both Unpaid and Partial invoices, so a part-paid invoice is never hidden from you.

The Invoices page. Unpaid reads 2 because it counts the part-paid invoice as well as the unpaid one, and Overdue counts only 10467, part paid and past its due date. A settled invoice has a Balance of zero, and the icon at the end of a row opens the PDF. On a phone each invoice is a card with a Download PDF link. Example view. Invoice numbers, amounts and dates are examples.

What each status means

The badge on a row is one of six values.

BadgeWhat it means
PaidSettled in full. Nothing further to do.
UnpaidA balance is outstanding. This is also the fallback when an invoice arrives with no status of its own, so an occasional invoice reads Unpaid because nothing else was reported for it.
PartialSome money has been received and a balance remains.
VoidCancelled. There is nothing to pay.
DraftRaised but not yet issued to you.
RefundedThe invoice was refunded. Credit notes carry this badge too, so a document labelled Refunded may be a credit note rather than a refund of money you paid.

Overdue is not a badge

Overdue is worked out rather than reported. An invoice counts as overdue when it is not a credit note, still has a balance, has a status of Unpaid or Partial, and its due date has passed. That is why Overdue gets its own tab and its own red Overdue label next to the badge, instead of replacing the badge.

An invoice counts as overdue when all four are trueNot a creditnoteStill has abalanceStatus is Unpaidor PartialIts due datehas passedAll four trueOverdueOn the listCounted under the Overdue tabOn the invoiceThe badge still reads Unpaid or Partial, with ared Overdue label beside it and a Paymentoverdue bannerCounts as overdue when all four are trueNot a credit noteStill has a balanceStatus is Unpaid or PartialIts due date has passedAll four trueOverdueOn the listCounted under the Overdue tabOn the invoiceThe badge still reads Unpaid or Partial,with a red Overdue label beside it and aPayment overdue banner
Overdue is worked out from four conditions, and all four must hold. It never replaces the badge: an overdue invoice still reads Unpaid or Partial, and Overdue is added beside it, on the Overdue tab and in the banner. Illustration.

Reading an invoice

Click a row to open the invoice document. The header carries the invoice number, the issued and due dates, the status badge, and, when they apply, the red Overdue label and a Refund requested note. That note says only that a request exists. It does not report what has happened to it.

A banner runs across the top when there is something to say: Paid in full, Payment overdue, or Invoice refunded.

The document itself holds:

  • Bill to: your name, your billing address, and your email.
  • From: the Clouduxe company name, its tax number, address, and email.
  • The issued, due, and paid dates.
  • The line items, each with its billing cycle and the service period it covers.
  • A summary column: Subtotal, Discount, Tax, Total, Amount paid, Amount credited, and Amount due.

Subtotal is before tax, Tax is its own line, and Total includes it. Amount due is the figure a payment has to clear.

Below the document, a Payments card lists every payment made against the invoice with the gateway that took it, its status, the timestamp, and the gateway's own payment reference. Quote that reference if you ever need your bank or the gateway to trace a charge.

A paid invoice, opened. The header holds the number, the dates, Query and the badge; the banner says Paid in full. In the summary column Total already includes Tax, and Amount due is what a payment has to clear. Discount and Amount credited are rows only when they apply, so this invoice has neither. The Payments card ends with the gateway's reference. Example view. Amounts, dates and the reference are examples; the grey bars stand for your details and Clouduxe's.

Query in the header opens a support ticket already linked to this invoice, which saves you pasting the number in.

Getting a PDF

There are two ways to it:

  • From the list, the download icon at the end of a row, or the Download PDF link on the card view.
  • From an open invoice, Download at the top of the document.

Both open the PDF in a new browser tab rather than writing a file to disk, because it is served for viewing. Use your browser's own save or print control inside that viewer to keep a copy.

What the list does not show

Export CSV at the top right writes the rows currently on screen to a file with the columns Invoice #, Issued, Due, Status, Currency, Total, and Balance. It exports whichever tab you are on, not the whole account, and it is bounded by the same fetch limit.

One timing note: a payment made outside the panel can take up to a minute to show here, because the list is cached briefly. A payment you make in the panel refreshes it immediately.

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