An invoice is made per customer, not per piece. You first collect everything that customer is taking into a basket, then turn it into one invoice.
A customer rarely buys one thing. The basket lets you gather it all before creating anything.
While scanning: click 🧾 Add to invoice. Or from your stock: tick the rows and choose 🛠️ Actions → under Other → 🧾 Add the selected rows to the invoice.
The number in brackets says how many pieces are in your basket. If it shows zero, nothing has been added yet and the button does nothing.
At the top of the sales screen look at 🧾 Create invoice with the number beside it, and click it.
This is your last chance to see whether anything is missing or one too many, because after this it becomes a real document.
Read through the list under These items will be added to the invoice.
The name goes on the invoice. The email address is optional, but without one the invoice cannot go out to the customer.
Fill in Customer name, and optionally Customer email (optional).
If you work with Odoo, the app creates a draft invoice there directly — nothing to retype. With another package you get a CSV file that almost any accounting program can read.
Under Accounting software, choose between Odoo (directly) and Other program (download a CSV file).
Otherwise you have to edit every piece separately afterwards — and that is exactly when one gets left behind in your public catalogue.
Tick Immediately mark these items as sold and click Create invoice.
These pages are free and will stay that way. If you would rather have someone look at your own stock with you, that is available as paid guidance.
Yes, that is what the basket is for. You first collect everything the customer is taking, and then turn it into a single invoice in one go.
The counter is at zero and your basket is still empty. The number in brackets after 🧾 Create invoice says how many items are in it; at zero the button is greyed out.
Yes. With Odoo the app creates a draft invoice there directly. With another package you get a CSV file that almost any bookkeeping program can read.
No, that field is optional. But without an address the invoice cannot go out to the customer.
Only if you tick Mark these items as sold immediately. If you do not, you have to edit every item separately afterwards — and that is exactly when one of them stays hanging in your public catalogue.