Back-office operations / AI invoice preparation workflow
Completed work. Invoice details ready to review.
An invoice preparation workflow brings completed-job records, customer details, and agreed charges into one review. Explore an illustrative Tobin handoff, then confirm your supported sources and permissions with the team. Accounting checks, posting, and sending remain separate steps.
Service businesses preparing invoices from completed jobs
Cadence
After a job review or on an agreed schedule
The handoff
Prepared invoice details, source references, and exceptions
What Tobin needs to get started.
A useful first assignment starts with a clear source, a specific result, and someone to review it.
01
Completed-job evidence
Use the agreed completion status and job reference. Decide whether a completion record needs another person’s sign-off before it can enter invoice preparation.
02
Agreed commercial details
Provide the approved scope, recorded line items, billing contact, and any existing invoice reference. Missing rates or unresolved changes should remain exceptions.
03
A person to review the result
Choose who checks customer details, amounts, applicable tax treatment, and duplicate risk. Tobin does not replace your accounting judgment or professional advice.
Example assignment
Say it in plain English.
Review jobs marked complete in our shared tracker this week. Prepare invoice details using the agreed scope and recorded charges. Include the customer, job reference, line items, and source links. Flag missing rates, disputed work, or an existing invoice. Leave everything for review; do not post or send invoices.
An example to adapt with our team. Sources, delivery, and supported actions are confirmed during setup.
The result to review
The amount, with its source.
Fictional records, shown to make the handoff concrete. This example performs no external actions.
Illustrative preparation recordPrepared by Tobin / Example
Cedar & Co. / J-1042
Recorded charge
Site inspection · $1,250. Source: approved job scope.
Service call
Needs review
$180. Source: recorded job charge. Confirm it matches the approved scope.
Prepared subtotal
Not posted
$1,430 before any applicable tax. Verify charges and duplicate status before finalizing.
From request to review.
01
Identify eligible completed work
Find jobs that meet your completion rule. Check the agreed records for an existing invoice; if duplicate checking is incomplete, make that limitation visible.
02
Organize a review package
Group the customer, job reference, recorded charges, and supporting sources. Keep uncertain amounts and missing information out of a supposedly final total.
03
Leave accounting actions explicit
A reviewer verifies the draft details. Writing an invoice to an accounting system, assigning a final invoice number, sending it, or collecting payment requires separately supported and authorized steps.
A good result passes these checks.
Is the job complete under your agreed rule?
Do the customer, scope, and charges match the source?
Has an invoice already been created in another system?
Have the reviewer’s amount and tax checks been completed?
Confirm the scope first.
The website’s invoice records and approvals are fictional and perform no external actions. Do not infer production accounting writes, payment collection, or unrestricted QuickBooks support. The team confirms the exact read and write capabilities available for your account before implementation.
This page does not claim production QuickBooks invoice posting. Confirm the specific accounting connection, account environment, read and write capabilities, and review steps with the team.
Does preparing an invoice mean it has been sent?
No. Preparing details, approving a draft, posting an invoice, and sending it are separate states. Verify the actual completion of each supported action.