Bill your client for several approved costs at once

Four subs send you bills on the same job. You approve them, then bill your client ONCE for all four - not four times. That is what this does, and it is on the Billing the client tab.

1. 1Open the project and go to the Billing the client tab, under "Invoices to your client".
2. 2Press "Create client invoice from approved costs".
3. 3Tick the bills and material costs you want on this invoice - as many as you like. "Select all" takes every one of them.
4. 4Decide whether the client sees your markup (see below), set a due date, and create it.

WHAT IS IN THE LIST. Only costs you have already approved, and only ones not already billed. A sub's bill still waiting for approval does not appear, and neither does anything that is already on another client invoice - so you cannot bill the same cost twice by accident. Void an invoice and its costs come back to the list.

YOUR MARKUP. Each line carries your contractor fee, and there is one switch for whether the client sees the working. ON, each line reads cost + your percentage = amount, which is the open-book presentation a cost-plus contract usually asks for. OFF, they see one amount per line and one total, and your margin is not on the document. It starts OFF, because a client who was never shown your margin cannot be un-shown it. You can change it on a draft before you send.