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The Manual · Glossary

Progress billing

Invoicing a long job in stages instead of one bill at the end. Each stage’s invoice is a draw, and each draw is tracked until collected.

Progress billing

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Also called
draw
Taught in
From the book to the driveway · Callbacks without the argument
Lives in
Jobs & work orders · Invoicing & payments
Related
Stands on its own
Shop language, defined in a sentence or two, and traced through the site.

In the Manual

Where the lessons say it.

  • Running the day on Thorbis

    From the book to the driveway

    For a long job, Core bills in draws (an invoice per stage, each one tracked until collected), so the shop is not floating a month of work to invoice it all at the end.

  • The craft of dispatch

    Callbacks without the argument

    The note that draws the line.

In the product

Where it lives in Thorbis.

  • In Core

    Jobs & work orders

    Deposits, milestone draws, and retainage: the long job billed by stage, from the same record that runs it.

  • In Core

    Invoicing & payments

    Deposits, milestone draws, change orders, and retainage on multi-phase work: progress billing from the job record, not a spreadsheet on the side.

Read more

Where the word is used.

  • In the Trenches

    Building in the open

    Projects: the long commercial job: a real project wrapped around the progress billing that is already in Core.

The glossary

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