What's the difference between Regular invoicing and Progressive invoicing?
Written by Nutcache Team
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By using Nutcache, you have the freedom to choose and customize the management of your projects as you wish, and one of the ways to customize this is with the different ways of billing your projects.
The two main ways are Regular and Progressive, and in the tables below you can see the main differences between each of them, both from the perspective of the projects and the invoices.
Regarding the projects:
Regular project - all billing methods except project phase specific | Regular project - Billing method is project phase specific | Progressive project | |
Can be converted in the other mode | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Expenses must be linked to a project phase | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Time entries must be linked to a project phase | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Can be invoiced in a single invoice with other projects | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Manually enter the previously invoiced amounts | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Ability to unlink an already invoiced expense from its project phase | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Ability to unlink an already invoiced time entry from its project phase | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Regarding the invoices:
Regular invoicing | Progressive invoicing | |
Supported billing methods | All, including project phase specific | Project phase specific only |
Non-draft invoice can be modified | ✅ | ❌ |
For each fixed-fee project phase, user can choose a percentage of the fixed-fee he wants to invoice | ❌ | ✅ |
Displays the previously billed amounts within this project and the remaining to bill amounts for the fixed-fee project phase | ❌ | ✅ |
Currently working with the QbO integration | ✅ | ❌ |
Invoice date range is mandatory to create an invoice | ❌ | ✅ |
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