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I have an excel file used to store department metrics.  The rows are the department name and metric.  The columns are days of the month and that metric's value.  I'm running into trouble trying to use the excel as a datasource.  It will not recognize that the column headers are dates and the metric values are associated to that date.  For example, I'm trying to pull the last three months worth of metrics.  Since it is not recognizing the header as an actual date field, I cannot figure out how to pull the last three months worth of data.  Any ideas?

 

Here's an example if it helps:

Department Name (column A)   Metric (column B)          1/31/2016 (column C)     2/28/2016 (Column D) ... etc

Accounts Payable                     #Invoices Processed     12,687                            13,955

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  1. Nov 17, 2016, 6:59 PM

    Make the date columns into a single date column.

     

    So the column would be date and it would look like this:

     

    Make the date columns into a single date column. So the column would be date and it would look like this: Perhaps look into

     

    Perhaps look into "Pivoting" your data.

     

    PS: if Metric is supposed to be invoices processed then just make "Invoices processed" your header for the "Value" Column

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Hey amigos.

I'm volunteering for a charity who don't use Salesforce but id like to get it up and running for them.

Basic question: how do I set up a way for them to take payments for products? Is it Salesforce payments? CPQ? Billing? Do they need experience cloud or should I try and integrate with JotForm?

Trying to keep it simple and finding it's pretty complicated. Thanks!!

#Payments #Salesforce CPQ & Billing #Invoices
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I have noticed that Salesforce does not provide the option to create a new record on its Invoice Standard object, in classic and lightning both.

 

I am using the System Administrator profile with Salesforce developer edition.

 

Why it does not allow to do so and how to create a new record using the Invoice Standard object or( Account or Order) Standard Object.

 

#Sales Cloud #Invoices #Salesforce Admin #TrailblazerCommunity #Trailblazers

 

Not able to create invoice on invoice Standard object

 

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Hello dear Trailblazer, at the moment we use an ETL interface to exchange data between Salesforce and SAP. This is still unavoidable for the master data. However, there is some transaction data from SAP that should be displayed. This includes, for example, invoice data or order histories. We would now like to connect these to OData via Salesforce Connect. In order to check whether the solution brings the corresponding success, we have now planned to carry out a test on our system and apply for a test license. To establish the connection, we need to connect to an on-premise SAP ECC 6.0. Unfortunately, there do not seem to be the same Odata packages here as for S/4 HANA. Has anyone already connected SAP on-premise and is there a way to install Standard OData on-premise? Or is there a fundamentally different approach here? Thank you very much in advance! Carsten

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Essentially, all of our quote lines roll up into a parent product to get a lump sum over the course of the ENTIRE engagement, which varies and is determined by subscription term.  I would then like to invoice out this lump sum divided by the subscription term.   For example, if the sum of our services is $900 over 3 months,  I would like 3 invoices, a month apart, at $300 a piece.  I have fussed with invoice plans and subsequent lines and have gotten the lump sum on a single order product to split into separate invoice LINES but I'd like separate invoices so there is no false partial payment, and so that the invoice dates are actually spread out.   Anyone know how to solve for this? Or does the configuration itself need to change? 

 

#Salesforce CPQ & Billing #Invoices Thanks SO much in advance!

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  1. Jul 8, 2021, 9:04 PM

    You can do this using the Billing Frequency field on the Quote?  I would also price out your products as monthly prices rather than a whole term price.

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Hi All! 

 

I hope everyone is staying happy and healthy :) 

 

Apologies if this is the incorrect forum - I am irrevocably lost in the Salesforce world (thankfully I don't need to know anything about leads, or any other fancy Salesforce language as I'm just the finance manager). All I want to know is what products my company pays for, when we will be billed, and what users we are paying for. 

 

Thanks in advance!

Kacie 

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  1. Mar 19, 2020, 5:31 PM
    I just sent you a message directly with my email address. If you can email me the requested info, I'll find the right person and connect you.
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Assume it is a 3 month contract(2/1/2020 to 4/30/2020) and billing day of the month is 1.

 

Note: I have chosen unit price of the product as 29$ because February has 29 days(to simplify the proration). 

 

--Initial Order--

Product A   1(Ordered Qty) - 29$(unit price) - 02/01/2020(Start Date)- 04/30/2020(End Date)

 

Customer is Invoiced on 02/01 for a total amount of 29$ and details are as below:

Let's say this is Invoice-1

Product A   29$(29$ unit price * 1 qty) for the period 02/01/2020 to 02/09/2020

 

--Amendment Order--

On 02/13/2020 customer doubled his order and the amendment order is as follows:

Product A   1(Ordered Qty) - 29$(unit price)- 02/13/2020(Start Date)- 04/30/2020(End Date) 

 

Invoice scheduler ran on 02/13 and created two Invoices as follows(I don't understand why it created two invoices):

Let's say this is Invoice-2

Product A   58$(29$ unit price * 1 qty * 2 months) for the period 03/01/2020 to 04/30/2020

 

Let's say this is Invoice-3

Product A   -75$(29$ unit price * 1 qty) for the period 02/13/2020 to 04/30/2020

Product A   34$(29$ unit price charged for 17 days for quantity 2) for the period 02/13/2020 to 02/29/2020

 

Total of Invoice-1,2 and 3 comes to correct number, which is 46$ but my question is what is the need of Invoice-2 and Invoice-3, why couldn't it just create one Invoice as follows:

 

Product A   17$(29$ unit price charged for 17 days) for the period 02/13/2020 to 02/29/2020

 

Anyone seeing this kind of extra Invoices where it could be just combined into one Invoice? This is so confusing for our reps and customers.  

 

Please note I have already looked into Invoice grouping article.

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  1. Feb 19, 2020, 1:41 PM
    @Ramesh Ale

    - Interesting. I would not expect Payment Terms to have that effect on the invoices.

    A few observations:

    -Invoice 1 should be from 2/1 to 2/29/2020 (full month) unless you used the Bill Through Date Override field.

    -Is Billing Day of Month = 1 on the Amendment Order also? When BDOM is not equal to the start date, you will get split invoices

    -Your Amendment order: Did you increase the quantity from 1 to 2 in the Amendment Quote, or did you zero out the original Quote Line and add a new Quote Line for 2?

    -Frank

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Hi,

We have a customer invoice requirement where Invoices will be sent in the following pattern

 

Eg: Invoice to be generated for 3 year (Subscription Product)

1st Invoice sent on the Date of Order Activation.

2nd Invoice sent after 14th Month.

3rd Invoice would be sent after 12 months.

 

Do you have any thoughts on this requirements?

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How to Submit a Payment for an open Invoice in Apex?

 

Our use case is as follows:

  1. Customer goes to our website, enters credit card information and signs up for the product.
  2. Order and Contract is created and activated
  3. Invoice is created and posted.

Now we need to make a payment with the credit card entered for the open Invoice. Is it possible to make payment in this case for the Invoice similar to what payment scheduler does(Payment transaction, allocation and etc..) in Apex? Is there a API to make this process easier?

 

OR

 

Can we create a payment scheduler so that it targets only this particular Invoice? I am aware of the Payment Batch field on Payment scheduler and it targets all Invoices matching with Payment Batch. I am looking for a way to match only single Invoice. 

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