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# Create an invoice from a job

When a job is finished and ready to bill, you can start its invoice straight from the job instead of building one from scratch. Open the job, use the New (create) menu at the top, and choose Invoice; Essential opens a new invoice already linked to that job, with the property filled in and the job's billable line items brought over.

Review it, set anything still needed such as payment terms, then save or send it as usual. Jobs your technicians finish on-site collect in Complete (Ready to Invoice), which is where you pick them up to bill.

If you choose an available signed quote for the same property, the quote's customer-facing contents take precedence. When the invoice is saved, Essential links both the quote and invoice to the combined set of jobs from the quote and the invoice's job/task context. The Related Records control beside each document title shows those jobs and the source quote or created invoice.

> **Where to find it:** On a job, the New (create) menu at the top, then Invoice

## Related guides

* [Create an invoice](/revenue/invoices/create-an-invoice.md)
* [Add a line item to an invoice](/revenue/invoices/add-a-line-item-to-an-invoice.md)
* [Apply a discount to an invoice](/revenue/invoices/apply-a-discount-to-an-invoice.md)
* [Attach files or reports to an invoice](/revenue/invoices/attach-files-or-reports-to-an-invoice.md)
* [Can I reverse a payment I recorded?](/revenue/invoices/can-i-reverse-a-payment-i-recorded.md)


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