Templates
The templates are used to custom the company documents and visually represent the brand and the organization values. On Invoicing Engine, you can custom the printing and sending templates, as well as the entity and items sequences. Customizing documents allows to transmit the identity and the values for a specific brand. In a highly competitive market, configuring the printing templates and the document sending templates, as well as define a logo on the invoices can represent an image of professionalism and credibility. There are 4 default templates available for printing: The printing templates available can be set up in a simple and intuitive way. For that, you must access Setup | System | Template, select the desired template and click View. You will be directed to the template editing screen, made of 5 tabs − Appearance, Details, Header, Footer and Page Footer − which differ according to the type of template selected. It also includes an area to view the changes made to the template. Note: If there is more than one company, the customizations made on the printing template are applied to all companies. When the template is configured, click Save. By default, the template set up will be applied to all document groups. However, it is possible to apply a template different from the group of specific documents. In this section, it is possible to set up the template margins, as well the image to be used as the logo on the document, the size and the position. It is possible to load a new image or select the checkbox Use company logo, if a logo has been defined on the company file, in Setup | General | Companies. Note: The maximum dimensions for the logo are 640px of width and 480px of height. The image loaded must not exceed 5 MB. In this tab, it is possible to customize the document header, namely, the margins, size, color and font. Here, you can define the setting for the document body. The upper margin, size, color, font and text alignment can also be defined. In this tab, you can define the texts to be presented on the first and second footer rows, as well as it alignment. Please note that you can use the footer to give payment instructions to your customers, for example, your company's IBAN number. In this tab, you can select an image to insert on the page footer, as well as define the image alignment on the document. The document groups available are in Setup | System | Template Entity Groups: To add a new template, follow these steps: After creating the templates for the documents necessary, you must associate them to the existent contacts. This data will be used to create and/or edit each contact in Setup | Contacts and Entities | Contacts. Please note that if you consider a sequence as 0001, the number of customers will have the limit of 9999.Configuring printing templates
Configuring the appearance
Configuring the header
Configuring the details
Configuring the footer
Configuring the page footer
Associating different templates to a document group
Step 1: Creating a template
Note: If you selected an existent template, you must edit the desired information;Step 2: Associating templates to the contacts
Note: If you wish to apply this email as default, you must select the corresponding checkbox on the column "Default";Step 1: Setting up the sequence for the entity code
- Sequence: Clientessalfanum;
- Entity: PARTIES.BUSINESSCORE;
- Description: Sequence by entity code;
- Entity attribute: PARTIES.BUSINESSCORE.PARTYKEY;Step 2: Checking the effect of a sequence on the entity code
Step 1: Setting up the free/alphanumeric code for entities
- Sequence: Clientessalfanum;
- Entity: PARTIES.BUSINESSCORE;
- Description: Alphanumeric customers;
- Entity Attribute: PARTIES.BUSINESSCORE.PARTYKEY.
Note: The field Constant Text is automatically filled in, as well as the field Length that is automatically filled in with the value 20;Step 2: Checking sequence on the entity code
Step 3: Setting up the free/alphanumeric code for items
- Sequence: Artigosalfanum;
- Entity: ITEMS.BUSINESSCORE;
- Description: Alphanumeric items;
- Entity Attribute:BUSINESSCORE.ITEMKEY;
Note: The field Length is automatically filled in with the value 20;Step 4: Validating the alphanumeric sequence on the item