Send the invoice to the customer

Sending picks the channels, delivers through the business's own email and SMS, logs the message into the customer's conversation thread, and locks the invoice.

What it is

A send dialog with email and SMS checkboxes, pre-selected from what the contact actually has. Delivery rides /api/comms/send — the org's own provider chain — so the message appears in that contact's thread like any other. The same dialog in receipt mode sends a paid-in-full receipt.

Also called: email the invoice · text the invoice · send invoice · customer never got it

See it
Send the invoice to the customer
Prepared for
Delia Yoder
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$36,239
Concrete & site$10,521
Doors & windows$7,014
Trim & finish$4,676
Total
$58,450
Signature
The send dialog with Email and SMS toggles, the resolved recipient, and a preview of the message body containing the portal link. src/components/invoices/InvoiceViewer.tsx. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Send routes through POST /api/invoices/[id]/send, which role-gates (admin / sales / project manager), flips status to sent and stamps sent_at.
  2. 2The dialog then posts to /api/comms/send per selected channel with a subject, body and the portal link.
  3. 3Partial failures are reported per channel rather than silently swallowed.
  4. 4On a paid invoice the same dialog offers 'Send receipt' with a thank-you body and the same link.
Why we built it

Send to Customer used to change the invoice's status and push a copy to the accounting package, and that was all it did. The customer received nothing, the conversation thread showed no record of it, and an invoice could sit marked sent for weeks with nobody outside the office ever having seen it. Sending now asks which channel to use, actually delivers on it, and writes the message into the customer's conversation history so there is a record of what went out and when.

The problem
  • 'Sent' status with no actual delivery to the customer.
  • No record in the customer's message history that a bill was sent.
  • Customers who read texts but not email.
Sound familiar?
What you get
The invoice send appears in the customer's conversation thread as evidence.
Email, SMS or both, chosen per send.
A receipt goes out the same way when it's paid.

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