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Record payments and send receipts

Each time you record money from a customer, Nfelia makes the receipt for you, brings the balance down and keeps Debts and your monthly total right.

By the Nfelia team ·

To make a receipt in Nfelia, record the payment: choose Paid now or Part now when you save a new order, or tap Record payment on the order later. Type how much, choose Cash, Transfer, POS or MoMo, and save. The receipt is made straight away. Open it and tap WhatsApp to send it to your customer.

Record the payment, get the receipt

There is no separate receipt form. Every payment you record on an order makes its own receipt, numbered like IVL-REC-090, so every payment that comes in has proof, for you and for the customer. At the same time:

  • the order's balance goes down, and its tag moves to Deposit paid or Paid;
  • the customer's debt in Debts goes down, or clears;
  • the money shows in Came in this month on Home and in Receipts this month.

Paid when you take the order

  1. Start a New order

    Tap +, then New order, and add the customer and the items. See how to send an invoice.

  2. Choose Paid now or Part now

    Under Payment, tap Paid now, or Part now and type what they paid.

  3. Say how they paid

    Under Paid by, tap Cash, Transfer, POS or MoMo. Tap Add a reference to keep the transfer or POS reference.

  4. Save

    Tap Save order, or Paid with the amount for a sale in the shop. You see, for example, Order … saved and paid. Receipt made.

Paid later, or bit by bit

  1. Open the order

    Open Orders and tap it. The Balance filter in Orders lists every order with money still to come.

  2. Tap Record payment

    Under How much, type the amount, or tap All of it or Half. Choose how they paid, and add a reference if you like.

  3. Tap Save payment

    You see Payment saved, receipt made. with the balance left, or Paid in full. Receipt made. The receipt shows under Money on the order.

Record payment is also on the invoice itself. For an order from your website, the switch … is in my account on Confirm order records the payment and makes the receipt in the same step: see website orders.

Check before you record Record a transfer once you see it in your bank or MoMo app, not when the customer says they sent it.

Send the receipt

  1. Open the receipt

    On the order, open Money and tap the receipt number. Or find it in the Orders tab under Receipts.

  2. Tap WhatsApp

    WhatsApp opens with a thank-you message ready: the amount, the receipt number, any balance left and the link. Send it.

  3. Or send the PDF

    Tap Share PDF, or Copy link. Under More, tap Download PDF or Open the customer's page.

On the order, WhatsApp also offers Send the receipt for the latest payment. Your customer opens the receipt on any phone: your logo, the Amount received and any Balance remaining. Like invoices, each receipt has a code anyone can check at nfelia.com/verify.

Find a receipt

Open the Orders tab and tap Receipts. At the top, Receipts this month shows what came in since the 1st. Search by the customer's name or the receipt number, and sort by date or by amount. The chips For invoices and Paid on the spot separate payments on orders from older on-the-spot receipts.

Receipts in Nfelia: ₦962,000 received this month, each payment listed by customer
Every receipt in one list
An order waiting for a payment check, with the customer's transfer screenshot attached
A website order with its proof

Screens from Ivie Luxe Hair, an example business.

Put a mistake right

  • Recorded on the wrong day? On the order, open More and tap Change dates: you can set the day each payment came in. You see Dates saved. Your reports count it on those days. The owner and admins can do this.
  • Paid more than the total, after you changed the items? The order says so, and the owner or an admin chooses Keep for next order or Give it back.
  • Giving money back? On the order, open Money and tap Give a refund. Nfelia makes a refund slip to send the customer. The owner and admins can do this.
  • A receipt can't be deleted when it belongs to a payment on an order: it stays with its payment, so your records stay honest. If you saved a wrong payment, message us on WhatsApp and we will help you put it right.

Know when money comes in

The owner and admins can have payments reach their phone the moment someone else on the team records them. Open More › Notifications and turn on Phone for Money in. To keep amounts off your lock screen, turn on Hide amounts on the lock screen. Staff never see amounts. See install the app to turn phone alerts on.

Common problems

It says the payment exceeds the remaining balance

You typed more than is left to pay. Tap All of it to fill in exactly the balance.

It says "That payment was already saved"

The button was tapped twice, and Nfelia saved it once. Check Money on the order: the payment and its receipt are there.

I can't find Record payment

It shows only while there is a balance. A fully paid order has nothing left to record. A new order from your website needs Confirm order first.

It says no payments can be recorded on this order

The order was cancelled or turned down. Make a new order if the sale is back on.

My customer wants the receipt as a PDF

Open the receipt and tap Share PDF, or More › Download PDF, and send the file.

Someone asks if my receipt is real

Send them to nfelia.com/verify with the code on the receipt, or let them scan its QR code.

Still stuck? Message us on WhatsApp.

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