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Projects – Settings – Partial Payments

Records prepaid amounts for a project and automatically deducts them from the final invoice.

The Interim Payments section (German: Abschlagszahlungen) lets you keep track of payments made before the final project invoice is finished. This helps with projects that take longer or have a big budget, when customers usually make prepayments, partial payments or advance payments.

You can find a project's interim payments under Projects → [Select project] → Settings tab → Interim Payments

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Purpose

Interim payments are meant to:

  • keep up your cash flow while the project is still going,

  • split up big total invoices,

  • stick to agreed payment schedules,

  • properly track incoming payments in the system.

Entered amounts are automatically taken into account in the final invoice and deducted there from the total invoice amount.

Typical use cases

  • Contractually agreed down payment at project start

  • Installment after milestone approval

  • Security payment before development start

Bill projects

Table overview

The list shows:

  • Title of the partial payment

  • Amount

  • Date, when the entry was created

  • Billed (Status, whether this payment has already been shown on an invoice)

On the right, you'll find:

  • Delete icon (🗑) to remove the entry

  • Pencil icon (✏) to edit

Add new partial payment

Click on Add new payment to open the input dialog.

The following fields are available:

  • Title

    Short label, e.g. “Prepayment”, “50% Deposit”, “Milestone 1”

  • Description

    Optional note, e.g. “Client paid €1,000 upfront”

  • Amount

    Amount to be taken into account

Capturing this is not just for documentation:

As soon as the amount is used as part of the final invoice, it will automatically reduce the invoice's end amount.

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