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Send an 'Invite to Bill' to a Payment Application Contact

Objective

To send an invite to bill to an payment application contact for the current billing period.

Background

Before you or a payment application contact can create a new subcontractor payment application, you must create a billing period using the project's Payment applications tool. After that, you can choose from these methods to create the payment application:

  • To invite a payment application contact to create a new payment application for the current billing period
    If you choose this method, use the steps below to send the payment application contact an 'Invite to Bill' by email. Sending an 'Invite to Bill' is a courtesy notification that reminds the payment application contact to create and submit the new payment application before the 'Due Date' specified by the billing period. To create the payment application as a payment application contact, see Submit a New Payment application as a Payment Application Contact.
  • To create a new payment application for the billing period on behalf of the payment application contact
    If you choose this method, follow the steps in Create a Subcontractor Payment application on Behalf of a Payment Application Contact.
Example

The illustration below shows an example of an 'Invite to Bill' that you can send to a payment application contact. 

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Things to Consider

  • Required User Permissions:
    • To send an 'invite to bill' to a payment application contact, 'Admin' level permissions on the project's Commitments tool
       Notes
      • Access permissions to the Payment applications & Progress Billings tools are governed by the permissions set on the Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding or Main Contracts tool. Procore tool names vary, depending on the language or point-of-view dictionary configured in Procore. See What dictionaries and languages are available in the Procore web application?
      • If you are a collaborator (for example, an payment application contact employed by a company performing work on a project managed in Procore, your ability to perform invoice-related tasks is determined by the Procore company account holder. Settings that the account holder may choose to provide to you include:
        • A Procore User account.
        • Access permissions to the project's Commitments and/or Client Contracts, Funding or Main Contracts tool.
        • Membership on the 'Private' list of a specific contract or funding
        • Designated as an 'Invoice Contact' on the contract or funding.
  • Additional Information:

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Navigate to the project's Invoicing tool. 
  2. Click the Subcontractor tab.
  3. Locate the purchase order(s) or subcontract(s) that you want to send an 'Invite to Bill' for from the list. 
     Notes
  4.  Mark the tickboxes that correspond to the contracts for the current billing period. 
  5. Click Send Invites.
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    After sending the invites, the following occurs:
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    • A success banner appears to confirm the invitation was sent.
    • The contract is removed from the 'Not Invited' count to the 'Invited' count. 
       Tip

      After the payment application contact completes the Next Step, the status of the payment application updates as follows:

      • If the 'Invite to Bill' is accepted by the payment application contact, the status changes to 'Accepted'.
      • If the 'Invite to Bill' is rejected by the payment application contact, the status changes to 'Declined'.

      To learn more about statuses, see What are the default statuses for Procore payment applications?