Write the invoice the evening you come off site, then let it go out on the day your client expects it: the Monday after you finish, or the 30th for a business that pays at the month end. Line up a draft to send on a future date and Sendinvo sends it at your usual send time, so the invoice goes in on the day you meant it to.
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Barlow Roofing Ltd
Invoice INV-0042 Scheduled
Build it the evening you come off site, while the extra parts and the extra hour’s labour are still fresh, then leave it as a draft.
Choose the day it should go out. The Monday after you finish, or the 30th for a client who pays at the month end.
On the day, Sendinvo emails it to your client at your usual send time, in your timezone, alongside your reminders.
If a send can’t go through, the reason is written on the draft, so nothing fails quietly and you can send it by hand.
Send later is for the invoices you want to write now and shouldn’t send yet. A roofer who finishes a strip and re-cover on the 12th still invoices at the month end, and a Sunday evening is when a fortnight of paperwork actually gets done. (Invoicing the other way round, for work you finished a while back, is what backdating the issue date is for.)
A scheduled invoice goes out on your chosen date at the same daily send time your reminders use, in your business timezone, so everything you send lands together. It sends on the first run at or after that time rather than to the exact minute, and only future dates can be scheduled. An invoice dated ahead to the 30th goes out this way too: the picker won’t offer a day before the issue date.
The check happens at send time, not when you schedule. Lining up an invoice three weeks ahead never locks in a subscription that has since lapsed: if you can’t send at that moment, the invoice waits as a draft and tells you why.
If a scheduled send can’t complete, the send date is cleared and the reason is written on the draft, so it never retries forever or disappears. You fix it and send by hand, or schedule it again. For a maintenance contract you bill on the same day every month, a recurring invoice raises and sends it for you instead.
On the date you pick, at your usual daily send time, in your business timezone, the same time your reminders use, so all your outbound email lands together. It goes out on the first send run at or after that time, rather than to the exact minute.
Scheduled send is for invoices. Quotes and credit notes are sent when you send them, and don’t have a send-later option.
Your plan is checked again at the moment the invoice actually sends, so lining one up three weeks ahead never locks in a subscription that has since lapsed. If you’re not able to send at that point, the invoice waits as a draft and tells you why.
The send date is cleared and the reason is shown on the draft, so it can’t retry forever or fail silently. You can fix the issue and send it manually, or schedule it again.
Write it the evening you come off site, and let it reach your client on the day you choose.