Document types

The documents you create and manage in Elorus can be divided into five categories, based on their function and how they affect your income and expenses.

• Invoices. They produce income for your business and clients are being charged for products delivered or services rendered.
• Credit notes. They produce income for your business, but the amount is negative. Clients are being credited for returning products or as a discount for future purchases.
• Bills. They comprise expenses and your busines is being charged for acquiring products or consuming services offered by suppliers.
• Supplier credits. They comprise business expenses, but the amount is negative. You are being credited for returning products to suppliers or as a discount for future purchases.
• Estimates. These are quotes or other documents, typically outlining products or services that a client can potentially purchase. Estimates do not produce income, neither comprise expenses.

About Document types

Each of the above categories can be further divided into several Document types. For example, "Sales Invoices", "VAT Invoices" and "Service Invoices", all are different types of Invoices; depending on the country you operate in, different rules apply as to when such an invoice should be created.

The concept of Document types enables you to maintain multiple kinds of documents, each having the following properties:

Unique title

The Document type title will be clearly marked on the generated PDF files, as shown below:

Each Document type may also be translated into several languages, so that the correct term is used when invoicing in foreign languages.

Unique numbering

Each Document type defines a distinct, unique numbering and may also have multiple Numbering sequences (numbering prefixes). To better understand how all this comes together, consider the following examples:

Pre-installed document types

By default, each Organization comes with a set of pre-installed Document types. There is a matching Document type for every document category except for Bills, where you should set up your own document types in order to create self-billed invoices.