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AJM0517
August 30, 2018
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Invoicing without email address

  • August 30, 2018
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I have seen this question on several forums - but I can't find an answer that works.  How can I generate an invoice / credit note without putting in an email address?  I have tried the various solutions advised on the forums but so far none have worked (ie changing payment details to none or print later in the client account, using save and close instead of save and send). 

Best answer by AshH

Hi AJM0517.

 

Thanks for getting in touch.

 

When creating an invoice on QuickBooks Online you shouldn't need to enter an email address unless you are wanting to send this out to your customer. If you create the invoice and then click 'Save' or 'Save and Close' the invoice should save to your QuickBooks without needing an email address. The only thing you would need would be customer name. I have just tested this on my own QuickBooks Online account and it has allowed me to save the invoice without including an email address.

 

If you are getting an error message would you be able to send a screenshot of the page that is showing when you try to save without an email address.

 

Let me know and I will be back in touch shortly :)

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AshH
AshHAnswer
August 30, 2018

Hi AJM0517.

 

Thanks for getting in touch.

 

When creating an invoice on QuickBooks Online you shouldn't need to enter an email address unless you are wanting to send this out to your customer. If you create the invoice and then click 'Save' or 'Save and Close' the invoice should save to your QuickBooks without needing an email address. The only thing you would need would be customer name. I have just tested this on my own QuickBooks Online account and it has allowed me to save the invoice without including an email address.

 

If you are getting an error message would you be able to send a screenshot of the page that is showing when you try to save without an email address.

 

Let me know and I will be back in touch shortly :)

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Merit Lawn
February 26, 2019

I am having the same issue. When creating an invoice it will not let me save it without an email. It gives me 2 choices preview or save as draft when I click on either choice it says please enter a valid email address. 

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nicktowyn
April 6, 2019

It’s great to see you in the Online Community, Merit Lawn.


Thanks for joining on this thread and providing a screenshot. I’m here to clarify about creating and saving invoices.


Currently, the option to save invoices without an email address in QuickBooks Self-Employed is unavailable. However, you can enter a dummy email address to keep the copy in your account.


While this feature is not yet available, I will send a product suggestion on your behalf to our Development Team. They love to your voice as well, so I suggest you let them know that adding more control on the Invoices page is important for your business.

 

Suggestions like this are helpful in identifying the features our clients want the most for consideration in future enhancements. You can submit them through here: Feedback.

 

This information should point you in the right path. 

 

If you have additonal questions about QBSE, please post a comment below. I'll be around to help. Have a good one.

 


If you enter a dummy email address it appears on the invoice under 'Bill to' which not only looks unprofessional but confuses older clients i.e. those without email.

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    TWoods96
    December 28, 2023

    I'm a QB self-employed user and having this same issue. It's now nearly 2024, has this issue been solved yet? I need to upload an invoice to an online portal without including an email address and as I'm not able to do this, what's the point in using quickbooks? This is something I'm going to have to do regularly, so frustrating.

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      Ashleigh1
      Level 14
      December 28, 2023

      Hello TWoods96, thanks for posting on this thread, it is still the case im afraid, you have to use an email address in order to save the invoice still. You can do what Georgia has said by using your personal email if you don't wish to send this to a customer so that you can save the invoice in your self-employed account. 

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      Tim Howard
      January 17, 2024

      So it is 6 years since this issue has been raised.

      It's obviously a simple thing to allow draft invoices to be "Marked as Sent" or "Mark as Paid".

      I suspect you just want us to move to QuickBooks online, but as you don't offer a seamless path to do that and all data must be exported and re-imported I might as well look at rival products too.

       

      Asking us to put our own or a dummy email results in a unprofessional looking invoice looking silly.

       

      I'm afraid I simply don't trust QuickBooks to send emails to my customers. At least a third do not arrive at all.  If they do arrive, then any customers using Outlook see a confusing mess. If it then gets forwarded to another department e.g. the finance department the link stops working.

       

      The only workflow that actually works is exporting the draft invoice to PDF, sending it, keeping a copy myself, and then deleting it when the customer pays. This loses all the reporting benefits but at least the invoices are guaranteed to arrive and they look sensible.

       

      At the end of this tax year I'll unfortunately be looking to jump ship. It's a shame that the lack of one simple and basic feature makes an otherwise sensible product very irritating to use. 

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