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Applying Discounts to an Invoice

You can apply discounts to the entire invoice or to a single line item. Discounts can be a dollar amount or a percentage.

Discounts applied to the entire invoice can appear anywhere within the line items. However, discounts applied to a single line item must appear directly below the item to which it applies.

Note: If you have not defined any discounts, the Apply Discount button will not be available in the Invoices dialog box.

To apply a discount:

1. In the Invoices dialog box, click Apply Discounts in the lower-right area.
2. In the Invoice Discounts list, to add a discount to the invoice or line item, select the discount definition in the list. Click Select.
   If the discount definition you want isn’t in the list, click the Manage Discounts link, add a new definition, and click OK. (For details, see Creating Invoice Discount Definitions.)
3. After adding the discount line, change the order of the line items on the invoice by clicking the up or down arrows in the Order column.
   If you’ve applied a discount to a specific line item, the discount line must be immediately below the item that you are discounting. For the discount to be applied to the entire invoice, it must be defined as applying to entire invoices.

Note: An “entire invoice” discount will always show the full discount regardless of where it appears in the list of line items.