Whenever you are selling your products or services, you give an invoice or a receipt to the buyer. Isn’t it? We hope you have a positive nod to it. Did you ever think about the importance of it? Or shall we say in these ways that are you aware of the role of an invoice in your business? Even if you are not aware, there is no reason to worry about it. In this blog, we are going to tell you about the significance of an invoice in a business. Just look at the points mentioned below:
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For keeping the record of the sale you made:
The invoice contains all the information regarding the sale of a product. Whether it is the price of the product, the total number of items, Courier Company who delivers it to the buyer, buyer’s information and much more.
For future references
Whenever you make a sale of a particular product or service you have to provide an invoice to the buyer. Preserve it until the warranty/guarantee is associated with that product for future references because in case if some defect is there you may correct that. If you don’t have the records of invoice then there is no way to identify that it is sold by your company or not.
It provides all the relevant data of the product
Invoice of products helps you to track the purchase and sold date, the price of the product and many important data.
Can be used in income tax return file
If you make a heavy sale of products of comparatively high price then apart from future references it can be used to show that in income return file. You can show your actual income through the use of invoice.
For legal purposes
If we had made a sale of goods to a customer and the customer Re-sell it then we can take a strong action against him/her because it is against the terms and conditions of the market. If we had a proper proof like Invoice of the purchase then our case will be strong enough to defend our argument and accordingly a good message will be sent to the society as well.
Provides you the information about the buyer
The invoice also contains the name, address and the contact number of the buyer to whom you sell that service. Just preserve them to keep the record of the buyer
The goods and services which you sell online shall be given with the invoice along with the stamp of your company. That’s why customer prefers to purchase online services which result in a decrease of the physical market of other sellers. Just to save some tax, please don’t tend to make a fake bill which does make an effect on the economy and growth of the country as well. As a responsible citizen of the country every time you sell a service then please provide the invoice to the buyer too. And just in case if you forget then create an invoice as soon as possible so that customer does make a faith in you.
There are many sellers who sell the steal products in the market which don’t come under the warranty/guarantee period of the company and it is also illegal to sell those products in the market. If you know anyone of them then please lodge a complaint against them in the police station so that the accused one may sentence to the Jail. So, from next time please take care of all these small things which can make an effect on the products and sales of your company.