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The Accounting section is your go-to spot for managing your accounting activities. Whether you're sending out invoices, handling payments, keeping tabs on payables, or syncing up your financial data with your accounting software, this section is designed for accountants and bookkeepers to track and manage financial transactions.

Setup

What you need to get started

To start invoicing your customers, follow these basic workflows:

Required permissions

The Accounting module permission is required to set up and use the accounting features. To have this permission enabled, please contact the account administrator on your team.

Quick start to invoicing

When your GL accounts, payment terms, invoice templates, and configurations are set up, you can start invoicing your customers.

Email an invoice

  1. Search for and go to the invoice record you want to send.

  2. On the invoice record, click Email .

  3. On the Email Invoice screen, review the content of the email.

  4. Make edits if necessary.

  5. When finished, click Send.

Print an invoice

  1. Search for and go to the invoice record you want to send.

  2. On the invoice record, click Print .

  3. A print view of the invoice opens in a new tab on your web browser.

  4. Click Print  to print the invoice.

Edit an invoice

  1. Search for and go to the invoice record you want to edit.

  2. On the invoice record, you can:

    • Use the side menu to add a task, material, equipment, purchase order, and so on, on the invoice.

    • Click Edit on an invoice item to edit it.

    • Click Delete on an invoice item to remove it from the invoice.

    • Click Update invoice details to edit details of the invoice.

  3. When finished, click Save.

Collect a payment

You can collect a payment from either the invoice record or the customer profile. For more in-depth information on collecting a payment, see Collect a payment.

  1. Search for and go to the invoice record you want to collect a payment for.

  2. On the invoice record, click Collect and apply payment.

  3. On the Collect and Apply Payments screen, enter the payment details.

  4. In the Apply Payment section:

    • If you want to apply the payment to the invoice, select Apply to Invoice and select the invoice.

    • If you want to keep the payment as credit to the customer account, select Apply to Customer Profile.

  5. When finished, click Save.

Advanced setup

Use the following workflows for further customization of your accounting features.

Part 1: Enhance your invoice templates

See the following guides if you want more optional customization and further refine your invoice print templates:

Part 2: Sales tax tracking

If you want to enable ServiceTitan to track sales tax in your transactions, follow the steps outlined below:

Part 3: Auto-batching your transactions

Determine if you want to use the auto-batching feature to maximize efficiency in processing your transactions.

Key workflows

Accounts Receivable

The Accounts Receivable section helps you handle incoming revenue, such as invoices, customer payments, and bank deposits.

Invoicing

Invoicing workflows let you tackle tasks that make sure you have an accurate accounting of services you’ve performed.

Payments

Understand the different ways you can collect, view, and apply customer payments to keep your business profitable and maintain growth.

Payment terms

Set up and use payment terms to stay on top of your invoices. Keeping an eye on due dates ensures your payment collection process is smooth and seamless.

AR transaction reporting

With AR Transactions reporting, you can keep tabs on the money flowing into your business. You can use AR Transactions reporting to view outstanding invoices in aging buckets and aggregate your data by customer, job, or location.

Accounts Payable

The Accounts Payable section allows you to monitor all outgoing expenses, including bills, vendor credits, and payments to vendors. For more details, refer to the Accounts Payable page.

Journal entries

Journal entries in ServiceTitan record financial transactions, helping you manage and track your company’s financial data accurately. Journal entries simplifies financial data transfer, reduces errors, and streamlines reconciliation by focusing on essential financial data.

Accounting integrations

Explore the different integrations available with various accounting systems to streamline financial management processes for businesses of all sizes.

Available accounting integrations

These integrations allow you to synchronize your data between ServiceTitan and your accounting software, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting.

Touchless Integration

If you're already integrated with QuickBooks Online or Sage Intacct, enhance your integration even further with Touchless Integration. Touchless Integration automates data sync and eliminates the manual process of batching, posting and exporting your transactions.

Avalara integration

If you’re using AvaTax to calculate sales tax for your business, the Avalara integration seamlessly syncs tax calculations with ServiceTitan to ensure accurate and automated tax reporting.

Financial controls

Accounting periods

Accounting periods let you define when transactions can be created, edited, or deleted.

Accounting audit trail

The Accounting Audit Trail feature tracks all changes in transactions, ensuring transparency and accuracy in your financial records.

Refunds and adjustment invoices

Explore the different ways you can issue refunds and adjust invoices to correct billing errors.

Progress billing

Use progress billing to invoice customers as you complete key stages of a project. Manage when payments will be collected to keep your cash flow going.

Setup

Set up and use Application for Payment to bill customers with AIA-style progress billing.

Create progress invoice

Create and manage progress invoices with Application for Payment to streamline billing and track work completed against the contract total.

Use retainage

Track and manage withheld amounts with the Retainage feature to maintain accurate billing and ensure proper release of funds at project completion.

Troubleshooting and FAQs

Troubleshooting

Refer to these troubleshooting articles for information on how to solve common issues you may encounter.

FAQs

Check out some of the most frequently asked questions for accounting. For more, see Accounting - FAQ.


Can I delete invoices in ServiceTitan?

To maintain accounting standards, ServiceTitan does not allow direct deletion of invoices. If the invoice has not been exported, you can edit it to reduce the balance to $0 and batch it. This effectively voids the invoice.

Or, as long as no other invoices in the batch need to be reflected in your accounting software, you can bypass batching.

If the invoice has already been exported, you can make changes using an adjustment invoice.

Can I deactivate default GL accounts?

It is not possible to delete or deactivate default GL accounts in ServiceTitan. However, they can be renamed or merged with another account.

How do I correct my invoice?

Invoices can be corrected in numerous ways depending on the specific issue you are trying to solve.  Some good starting places for help are:

Can I see past statements sent to a customer?

In the customer record, you can see an audit trail of all the statements sent to a customer. Under Customer Statement Log, you can view the statement and the message you sent with the email. Click the link in the audit trail to view the statement.

Customer statement log showing email details and statuses for ACE Properties.

Why is my invoice showing a blank page?

Internet browsers store a memory of your recently visited websites in what is called a ‘cache’. While this is done to load pages faster, it can sometimes result in an error such as a blank page. Clearing your cache forces your computer to re-download the page.