Sending Sales Invoices by Email

To send a sales invoice to a specified email address:

  1. Navigate to the detail page for the document you want to send. You can only send sales invoices that have a status of "Complete". See Viewing Sales Invoice Lists for more information.
  2. Click Email PDF. If you don't see this button, either switch to Classic Edition or ask your administrator to add this custom button to Extended Edition. This button is also available on the Sales Invoices Lightning page. A copy of the document is created and sent as a PDF attachment to the specified email address. The default email templateClosed A form email that communicates a standard message, such as a reminder letter or remittance. Email templates are a standard Salesforce CRM feature. is used, unless you have created your own custom email template.

The visibility of this button is controlled by a custom setting.

An event of type "Emailed" is logged in the event logClosed Tells you when an invoice or credit note was printed or sent by email, and who printed/sent it. Not used for mass email communications.. The event log description records the email address to which the message and its attachment were sent.

Messages are sent to the invoice email address specified on the customer account's finance correspondence section. This email address is displayed on the account detail section of the sales invoice or credit note detail page. If an email address is not specified, the request will fail.

Enterprise Billing

If your organization needs to create enterprise billingClosed Support for sales invoices and credit notes of more than 80 lines. You can use custom settings to adjust this threshold in some instances. documents, you cannot use Classic EditionClosed The view of the application that you see when you first install the base managed package. for this and you must ask your administrator to add a series of custom buttons to your Extended EditionClosed The view of the application that you see when you install one of the extension packages (such as the Cash Entry Extension package). For invoices, credit notes, and journals Extended Edition is integrated into the main package, but must be configured. page layouts. See What is Enterprise Billing? and Customizing Page Layouts (and Search Layouts) for related information.