Invoice Types and Methods
This page displays a general description about invoice types, delivery formats, payment types and bank account setup options.
Invoice Types
| Invoice type | Description |
|---|---|
| NORMAL | invoice to be paid after delivering the items of the order. The most common invoice format for services and non-physical goods. |
| PREPAYMENT | invoice to be paid before delivering the items of the order. More commonly used for physical goods that needs stock-keeping. |
| CREDIT | Please note that credit invoice is a completely separate entity, with separate endpoints, and is therefore not listed as an invoice type when creating an invoice in the API. Credit invoices can only be created when regular (NORMAL) invoices exist in the system. |
| CASH | Cash invoices are invoices generated at the time of a payment, when you have included an OrderId as a part of the Payment Request. Please note that the type CASH can't be used in the Create Invoice Request. |
Note: For more information about invoice states, visit the page invoice creation in the The Payment section.
Delivery Types
| Delivery type | Description |
|---|---|
Payer sends the invoice to the email specified on the invoiceCustomer of the order in PDF format. There is also a link to the invoice web view, explained in this section in the The invoice web view page. | |
| EINVOICE | Payer sends the invoice as an e-invoice to the company specified on the invoiceCustomer of the order. This option is currently available to invoiceCustomers that are companies. For e-invoice to work properly, a valid regNumber for the customer needs to be provided. |
| Payer prints out and sends the invoice via postal service. (Not recommended for original send-outs, but might be used in the reminder configuration. Not recommended due to environmental cons compared to PDF). | |
| SMS | Payer sends the invoice to the telephone number specified on the invoiceCustomerof the order. The web view can be accessed through the sms. |
| NONE | Payer does not send the invoice, but it will be created in the system. |
Only invoices of type NORMAL can have delivery type EINVOICE.
Delivery type EINVOICE is only available for customers that are companies AND requires that you included a regNumber for the Invoice Customer Object in the Create Order request preceding the Create Invoice request.
Payment Types
General bank payment
In general, invoices are paid by the Buyer with the help of the payment instructions on the invoice. Normally, there are one or two bank account types (Bankgiro-number (SE) and IBAN-number). When the buyer receives the invoice with any distribution method, they can pay it via their normal invoice payments processes. For example, invoices that are distributed as e-invoices will auto-populate all the payment data needed for the Buyer in their ERP or invoice receivables system so it's easy to pay without typos.
General bank payment accounts: Bankgiro (SE), Plusgiro (SE), IBAN (International Bank Account number).
Extra payment methods on digital web version
There is also an option to add more payment methods to the The invoice web view in order to offer the Buyer a digital version of the invoice where they can initiate a payment easily.
Payment via Partner or directly to your bank Account
We support two types of processes in our Invoice payment experience.
Payment via Partner
This is the quickest way to get going. The payments goes via to one of Payers Partners' bank account and are then paid out to you once a day from a client funds account.
Payment directly to merchant
We can also generate invoices with your bank account details and instructions so that the Buyer can pay directly to your own accounts. In order for Payer's automated process to match incoming payments and create data for bookkeeping.
The payments might come in single or bulk payments depending on the type of payment, however we support matching of these when we activate our bank integration with your Bank.