difference between BillingDocument and invoice

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

can u tell me what is difference between billing document and invoice.

[Former Member]

hi Aruna,

This is MAx answer in one of the thread ..

The bill is SD document created by delivery, so the billing is the action to create the bill.

The invoice is the FI document generated from the bill.

So the flow should be:

Sales Order->Delivery->Bill->Invoice

Sales Order, Delivery and Bill are SD documents, invoice is FI document.

Regards,

Santosh

[Former Member]

Hi,

In ABAP Terminology w.r.t SD module in SAP Both are same , which are present in VBRK, VBRP tables.

Regards,

Anji

[Former Member]

Hi

Invoices are always primary documents.

Other billing documents, such as debit or credit memos, can be primary or secondary

documents. This depends on the order reason entered in the billing document.

For more information on how the order reason is used to control primary and secondary

documents, see Order Reason in Retroactive Billing [Page 8]. This section will also provide a

more detailed example of how retroactive billing works.

Primary Documents

Primary documents are:

Invoices

Credit memos that refer to returns

Credit and debit memos in which you have entered the relevant order reason

You can also assign an order reason to a memo request which then passes it along to

the referenced credit or debit memo.

Secondary Documents

Secondary documents are the following billing documents in which you have entered the relevant

order reason:

Credit and debit memo requests

Credit and debit memos

The system displays such a document only when it has been created with reference to the

invoice and when the currencies in both documents match.

The billing document can be an invoice, per-forma invoice,

cash sales invoive, credit memo and a debit memo. Where as

an invoice is a type of billing doc used to bill the

customer for services or goods delivered

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Regards

Shiva