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title: "Consolidated Interim Invoices"
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# Overview
The Consolidated Interim Invoices functionality enhances the existing interim invoice functionality by allowing customers that are flagged with this functionality to have their invoices sent to the Consolidated Interim Invoice queue, where they wait to be selected and consolidated before being eligible for release via Interim Invoicing.
> 📝 When interim invoices are consolidated, Frameworks stores a link between each original transaction and the resulting consolidated invoice. This allows you to track and retrieve consolidated invoices using the original transaction numbers, improving billing verification, customer enquiry response, and payment reconciliation.
# > Macro (anchor)
Consolidate Interim Invoices
To consolidate customer interim invoices, perform the following:
1. Click **the Frameworks Menu** and navigate to **Sales > Interim Invoicing > Consolidate Interim Invoices** from the navigation tree.
2. In the **Customer **field, enter a customer number or click the **Search **icon** **to open the **Customer Finder **window. You must select a customer to continue. Click **Find **to display a list of interim invoices for your selected customer.
> ℹ️ The dashboard only shows invoices from the current debtors' periods.
3. Enable **Select **for the invoice lines you wish to consolidate.
4. Click **Consolidate Selected**, to open **Consolidate Interim Invoices **window
> ⚠️ Consolidation of invoices is based on the **Customer Ref** field; if the invoices you're consolidating have different customer order references, you'll see a warning message.
5. In the **Consolidate Interim Invoices **window, enter a 'common' **customer reference** to apply to all selected invoices and click **Save**.
Your selected invoices are now consolidated into a single interim invoice and displayed on the interim invoice screen:
After invoices are combined, their original invoice numbers will appear in the **Product Description** column.
If you need to find a consolidated invoice later and only remember the original transaction number, you can use this information to locate the invoice in the [Customer Transaction Enquiry](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28384484).
> ✅ Refer to [Interim Invoicing ](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28400532)User Guide for information regarding reviewing and posting interim invoices.
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# Processing Credit Returns for Consolidated Interim Invoice
You can process credit returns for consolidated interim invoices by entering a negative quantity. The product must already exist on the invoice before you can enter a negative quantity (this works the same as existing interim invoice functionality).
> ℹ️ Tally products, though, will need to be credited via the [credit notes](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28383394) function.
> ✅ Refer to the Creating a credit note in [Interim Invoicing](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28400532) for information on this process.
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# End of Month Process
General Ledger and stock movements only happen when you finally process an Interim Invoice (this is the same as existing interim invoice functionality). This occurs when you process the [Interim Invoicing](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28400532) by either:
- Enabling **Invoice Now** in the Sales Order header to immediately invoice the Sales Order, or
- Running the month-end Interim Invoice scheduled process
> ⚠️ The **post immediately **tick box is only present for customers who have the Consolidated Interim Invoices customer flag ticked once the invoices have been consolidated. You cannot post any invoices for a consolidated customer invoice customer until such time as the [consolidate](#consolidate) process is complete.
> ⚠️ All interim invoices must be finalised within the debtor period in which they are created. Where the customers consolidated invoices span two debtors periods, they will receive 2 consolidated invoices, one for each month.
Click here for a sample output of a consolidated invoice
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# Additional Information
> ✅ Refer to the [Interim Invoices Dashboard](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28409122) and [Interim Invoice Maintenance](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28391226) for more information.
Related System Settings - Flags/Numeric/General
> ⚠️ **Important:** This functionality is driven by the feature codes **INT, INC, IND **and **INZ. **Prior to **Interim Invoices** being used, setup & configuration activities must be completed. For more information please contact [Support](https://kb.myframeworks.com.au/page/support).
The below system settings may be used to customise the functionality of your Frameworks instance.
| **System Settings - Flags** | **Flag Purpose** |
| --- | --- |
| **IntInvFlg** | Activate the Interim Invoice logic |
| **InvPstDte** | Use the invoice date as the posting date for invoices |
| **System Setting - Numeric** | **Setting Purpose** |
| --- | --- |
| **IntInvDel** | No. days delay before interim invoice
> ⚠️ Where the Customer Flag **Consolidated Interim Invoices** is enabled, the **IntInvDel** value will not be adhered to until such time as the invoices for the customer have been consolidated. |
| **IntInvFut** | Interim Invoice number of future days the user can set the due date |
| **System Setting - General** | **Setting Purpose** |
| --- | --- |
| **IntInvCut** | Interim Cut-off time (HH:MM) |
> ✅ Refer to [Interim Invoices - Setup and Configuration](https://sterlandsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FRAM/pages/28400532) for more information.