# Customer invoice settings

What each option of the Customer Invoices and Customer Payments groups of the Accounting settings does, and which accounts receive the discounts of invoice lines and the early payment discounts.

The options that shape customer invoices sit in the **Customer Invoices**, **Customer Payments** and **Default Accounts** groups of **Accounting/Configuration/Settings**. The package, the taxes, the fiscal year and the signature of invoices are explained in [Accounting settings](/docs/accounting-start-here/accounting-settings).

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- You need the **Administrator** role on your user; the **Administrator** access right on **Accounting** alone does not open the settings.
- The settings belong to the current company; switch company to change another one.

## Customer Invoices {#customer-invoices}

![The Customer Invoices group of the settings.](https://jaah.app/web/image/10148-6f73e19e/customer-invoices-settings-settings_invoices-en.png)

### Customer Addresses {#customer-addresses}

Off by default. On, invoices and sales orders get a **Delivery Address** next to the **Customer**, for a client served at another address.

### Cash Rounding {#cash-rounding}

Off by default. On, a **Cash Roundings** list in the configuration defines the smallest coin in use, and a draft invoice gets a **Cash Rounding Method** in **Other Info** to round a total paid in cash.

### Default Incoterm {#default-incoterm}

Empty by default. The trade term proposed in the **Incoterm** of new invoices; it concerns shipped goods, so a firm billing services leaves it empty.

### Sale Receipt {#sale-receipt}

Off by default. On, a new customer invoice can be switched to a **Sales Receipt**, for a sale paid on the spot.

### Default Terms & Conditions {#terms}

Off by default. On, terms close every invoice, order and quotation: **Add a Note** prints the text typed here, **Add a link to a Web Page** links to a terms page edited with **Update Terms**.

### Sales Credit Limit {#credit-limit}

Off by default. On, **Default Credit Limit** sets what a client may owe, and each contact can carry its own limit. A draft invoice whose client would go over it shows a yellow warning; nothing is blocked.

![The credit limit warns before a client owes more than allowed.](https://jaah.app/web/image/10152-b01eb085/customer-invoices-settings-settings_credit_limit-en.png)

### Total amount of invoice in letters {#amount-in-letters}

Off by default. On, the printed invoice also gives its total in words.

### Taxes in company currency {#taxes-company-currency}

On by default. An invoice in a foreign currency also shows its taxes in the company's currency.

### Snailmail {#snailmail}

Off by default. It would send invoices by post through an outside postal service; leave it off.

## Customer Payments {#customer-payments}

![The Customer Payments group, with the online payment of invoices.](https://jaah.app/web/image/10156-31871b41/customer-invoices-settings-settings_payments-en.png)

### Online payment {#online-payment}

**Invoice Online Payment** (on by default), **Accept Payment in Draft State** and **Add QR-code link on PDF** open invoices to online payment, including [one payment link for several invoices](one-payment-link-for-several-invoices); they are explained with the providers in [Online payment settings](/docs/online-payments/online-payment-settings).

## Invoice line discounts {#discount-accounts}

In **Default Accounts**, **Invoice line discounts:** says where discounts are booked.

![The accounts that receive the discounts of invoice lines.](https://jaah.app/web/image/10160-a66713c9/customer-invoices-settings-settings_discount_accounts-en.png)

- **Customer Invoices**: empty by default (**Same Account as product**), so a discount lowers the income account of its line. With an account set, the amount taken off by a **Disc.%** is booked on it and the income keeps its full value. A **Disc. Fixed** is not moved there ([Give a discount on an invoice](give-a-discount-on-an-invoice)).
- **Vendor Bills**: the same for the discounts received on bills ([Vendor bills and expenses](/docs/vendor-bills)).

**Early payment discounts:** serves the payment terms that reward early payment, such as **2/7 Net 30** (2 % off within 7 days, otherwise due in 30). **Early Discount Loss** receives the discount granted on customer invoices, **Early Discount Gain** the one received on bills. The terms are in **Accounting/Configuration/Invoicing/Payment Terms**.

Click **Save** to apply your changes.

## FAQ {#faq}

### I do not see the Accounting settings. {#no-settings}

Only a user with the **Administrator** role sees them; the **Administrator** access right on **Accounting** is not enough.

### Do these options apply to vendor bills? {#vendor-side}

Only the discount accounts have a vendor side. The options of bills are explained in [Vendor bills and expenses](/docs/vendor-bills).

### Which tasks run by themselves? {#automations}

The page [Customer invoice automations](customer-invoices-automations) lists the background sending of invoices and the e-mail templates.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/customer-invoices/customer-invoice-settings
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- Version: Customer invoices 19.0.1.1.1
- Verified: 2026-10-23