Self Billing Invoice vs own invoice accountant won't accept my own invoice ?

[SueEllen]

Could you fail that test if you use self billing (ie, the agency raises an invoice to themselves on your behalf and sends you a copy)? If so, then I'm telling the agency they aren't using self billing any more....

The two systems I've used I actually raised the invoices on the company/agent software. In doing so I was able to put in my own invoice number there as theirs was auto-generated.

I think the real reason for self-billing is to stop the fluctuations in invoice styles. I have had more than one agent send out example invoices to all contractors on site due to things like "Company Number" being missing on some contractors invoices.

[Wanderer]

I guess you can create your own invoices while on self billing, but I find invoices long winded and you end up with masses of documents that contain only a few bytes of useful information each.

The way I deal with it is by keeping a simple spreadsheet with one row per billing period (eg, weekly or monthly) showing the period start/end date, the days worked and the date the timesheets were submitted. When the invoice is paid, I enter the payment date into the spreadsheet and the spreadsheet can highlight late or wrong payments. Pretty simple really and it can easily display several hundred invoices on one page...