Invoicing and credit notes
Your invoice is often the first thing your business produces, and the last thing you want to argue about later. This page shows how Kept creates invoices, how you correct them, and where a person stays in control of what reaches your customer.
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You choose the customer, add the lines and pick how VAT applies to each line. Kept gives each invoice the next number in an unbroken sequence. It works out the VAT from the standard rate in its current published settings, not from a number fixed in the software's code. When you issue the invoice, the sale goes into your books straight away and shows on that customer's account. Where the rules allow a simplified invoice, you can issue one instead. Before you issue, you see the invoice exactly as your customer will see it: in English, in Arabic or in both.
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Kept does not let you edit an invoice once it is issued. If a price was wrong or goods came back, you issue a credit note (a document that reduces or cancels an invoice) linked to the original. What the customer owes goes down, the VAT goes down with it, and both documents stay visible side by side. We do this on purpose. Your customer may already have recorded the invoice, so it should not change quietly in your books. Anyone checking later can follow the invoice and its correction.
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You can prepare a quote, send it and turn it into an invoice without typing the lines again. A quote does not go into your books; only the invoice does. You can also issue an invoice in a foreign currency. Kept keeps the amount in that currency next to its value in dirhams. Your customer sees what they owe in the currency you agreed, and your books stay in dirhams.
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For a charge that repeats, such as a monthly retainer, you set the start date and how often it is due. On each date Kept prepares a draft. A person checks it and issues it. Nothing goes to a customer without someone looking at it first. Each date is counted from the original start date, not from the last invoice. So a monthly charge that starts at the end of a long month does not slowly move earlier as the year goes on.
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A list of your invoices and where each one stands: draft, issued, part paid, paid or credited. For each customer there is one account page showing every invoice, credit note and payment by date, with the balance after each one. From any invoice you can open the record it made in your books and see exactly which accounts it changed. When your customer's accounts team asks why a balance looks the way it does, the answer is on one screen.
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Kept builds a structured (machine-readable) version of each invoice and keeps every version it has made. This is not yet tied to a published UAE specification or connected to an accredited service provider, so Kept does not send it anywhere. Until then, your invoices are documents you send to your customer yourself, and this site does not claim otherwise.
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