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Invoices to members for annual membership fees

Switzerland
Double-Entry Accounting
Education

With Banana Accounting, besides managing the accounting of the association, printing the balance sheet and other reports you need, you can prepare and print invoices to the members for the payment of the social fees. With the template that we provide you with, it only takes a few steps to easily and quickly print the invoices.

In Banana WebApp openen

Open Banana Accounting Plus op uw browser zonder enige installatie. Pas het sjabloon aan, voer de transacties in en sla het bestand op uw computer op.

Open template in WebApp

Model documentatie

Initial settings

To get started quickly, we recommend that you download the template presented at the top of this page, or take it directly from the program, as follows:

  • From the File menu > New
  • Choose Region
  • Choose as accounting Type, double-entry accounting
  •  Select the Template Association - invoices
  • Save the file with a name

Enter the association's basic data

In the File menu > File properties > Accounting, enter your association's data, start and end date, and base currency.

In the Address section fill in the required data. This data is essential for the invoice headers.

Addresses tab

Insert logo and define position of invoice headers

To insert the association logo and define the position of the various headers in the invoice go to File menu > Logo setup.

For further details visit the Logo setup page.

logo and headers setup

Enter Members' Data

In the Accounts table, at the end of the chart of accounts enter all members of the association using cost centre CC3, the one with the semicolon.

In the Address view fill in the various columns with the members' data. For each member you can define the invoice language in the Language column.

If you have chosen a different template that does not have the Address view, you can activate it from the Tools menu > Add/Remove new functionalities > Add Address columns in Accounts table and fill in the various columns with the required data.

members list with Cost Center 3

Set Members' Group

Once the list of members with the totalisation group has been created, it is necessary to indicate the group in the invoice settings:

From the Reports menu > Customers > Settings, select the members' totalisation group. In our tutorial, TM (Total members) is indicated.

Setup of the members group

Prepare and print invoices to members

Enter the invoice data in the Transactions table. Simply enter the following data:

  • Date
  • Description
  • Invoice number (essential for printing the invoice)
  • The amount of the membership fee
  • In column CC3 enter the cost centre relating to the member you defined at the end of the chart of accounts, but without the semicolon.
  • The Debit and Credit columns remain empty.

Transactions of invoices to members

You are now ready to print invoices. Proceed as follows:

  • From the Reports menu > Customers > Print invoices, access the dialogue where you can indicate the invoice(s) to be printed, choose the layout and change settings for customisation.

Print invoices dialogue

In the Options section you can enter notes for the member and choose the language

Notes for invoices to members

Invoice

Invoice

Additional Information:

Modelvoorbeeld

Association XX

Basic Currency: CHF

Double-entry

Table: Accounts
Group Description Sum In
    Balance Sheet  
       
    Assets  
  Cash Cash Assets
  Bank Bank Current Account Assets
  Post Post Current Account Assets
  Office Forniture Office Forniture Assets
  Computer and Software Computer and Software Assets
  Car Car Assets
Assets   Total Assets Net Assets
       
    Liabilities  
  Suppliers Suppliers Total Liabilities
  Visa Credit card loan Total Liabilities
  Loan Bank loan Total Liabilities
  Start-up Capital Start-up Capital Total Liabilities
  Brought forward profit or loss Brought forward profit or loss Total Liabilities
Profit or loss of the current year   Profit or loss of the current year Total Liabilities
Total Liabilities   Total Liabilities Net Assets
       
Net Assets   Net Assets  
       
       
    PROFIT/LOSS STATEMENT  
       
    INCOME  
  Donations Donations 4
  Membership Membership payments 4
  Sales Various Sales 4
  Other Income Other income 4
       
4   TOTAL INCOME 00
       
    EXPENSES  
  Office Supplies Office supplies, printing material, photocopies 3
  Postal Fees Postal fees 3
  Rent Rent 3
  Electricity Elecricity 3
  Water Water 3
  Teleohone and Fax Telephone and fax 3
  Internet Internet 3
  Publicity Publicity, flyers, printing 3
  Cleaning Cleaning 3
  Maintenance and repairs Maintenance and repairs 3
  Goods and materials Goods and materials 3
  Salaries Personnel expenses 3
  Social Insurance expenses Social Insurance expenses 3
  Vehicle and transport Vehicle and transport costs 3
  Refund Volunteers Refund to volunteers 3
  Fees and Permits Fees and other permits 3
  Unexpected expenses Unexpected expenses 3
  Unregistered expenses Small unregistered expenses 3
  Other expenses Other expenses 3
       
3   TOTAL EXPENSES 00
       
00   RESULT  
       
       
    COST CENTERS  
       
    Members  
       
  ;WEI Weisshaupt Urs TM
  ;MUL Müller Susanne TM
  ;SCH Schmid Peter TM
  ;ROS Ross Michael TM
  ;BIA Bianchi Peter TM
TM   Total members  
       
       
    SEGMENTS  
  :Project A Project A Total Projects
  :Project B Project B Total Projects
  :Project C Project C Total Projects
Total Projects   Total projects  

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