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Batch Invoicing: Bill Every Customer in One Sitting

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Checks were still 26% of business-to-business payments in the Association for Financial Professionals' 2025 survey, down from 81% in 2004, Nacha reports. For a cleaning, lawn or alarm company that means two chores a month: a pile of invoices out, a stack of checks in. Here is the month in one sitting.

Repeat Last Month

On Invoices, choose New, then Invoice several, and repeat last month's invoices. Every customer and site comes back as a row, with its PO. Change what changed, a vacant suite or a new price, and leave the rest.

Invoice several: September repeated for October, a row per suite with its service address, item, reference and amount
September, repeated for October: a row per suite, each with its service address and PO.

One Invoice per Site, the PO on Top

Rows for the same customer and site become one invoice. It names the service address beside the billing address and prints the customer's PO as Your reference, so accounts payable can match it.

An invoice for one suite: the property manager as Prepared for, Suite 300 at 1455 Frazee Rd as the service address, and the PO as Your reference
What the property manager's accounts payable receives.

Send Them Together

Create and send emails each customer once, with all of their invoices. To print or check them first, mark them as sent or save drafts instead.

Record the Stack of Checks

When the checks arrive, open Payments and choose Record payments. Type each check next to its customer and BillGrid shows the invoices it pays. Record them all at once, with one Undo.

Record payments: four checks typed against four property managers, each an exact match that pays their open invoices in full
Four checks, fourteen invoices paid in full.

Let Reminders Chase the Rest

Anyone who hasn't paid gets a reminder before and after the due date. Recording their check stops them.

An invoice's upcoming payment reminders, before and after the due date
The reminders still to go on one invoice.

Tips

  • A new PO? Type it over the old one; BillGrid warns if it was billed before.
  • A long route? The sheet takes 100 rows at a time, so bill a bigger month in two runs.

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