Create a Subcontractor Invoice on Behalf of an Invoice Contact

Using Owner or Specialty Contractor Terminology?

Procore can be configured to use terminology specific to General Contractors, Owners, or Specialty Contractors. Learn how to apply the dictionary options.

To learn the differences: Show/Hide

This table shows the differences in tool names (bold) and terms across the point-of-view dictionaries for Project Financials.

General Contractors English (United States) - Default	Owners *English (Owner Terminology V2)*	Specialty Contractors *English (Specialty Contractor Terminology)*
Invoicing	Invoicing	Progress Billings
Owner	Funding	Owner
Owner/Client	Owner/Client	GC/Client
Prime Contract Change Order	Funding Change Order	Client Contract Change Order
Prime Contracts	Funding	Client Contracts
Revenue	Funding	Revenue
Subcontract	Contract	Subcontract
Subcontractor	Contractor	Subcontractor
Subcontractor Schedule of Values (SSOV)	Contractor Schedule of Values (CSOV)	Subcontractor Schedule of Values (SSOV)

About These Dictionaries

Default Setting: The 'General Contractor' dictionary is enabled by default for all accounts.
Availability: These alternate dictionaries in italics are available in US English only.

How to Switch Your Dictionary

To change your company's terminology to the Owner or Specialty Contractor dictionary, contact your company's . They will work with your Procore Point of Contact to make the change.

Background

If your company or project doesn't want to grant external collaborators access permission to your Procore project so they can submit their own invoices, your team can collect the digital or paper invoices from your invoice contacts outside of Procore. Once collected, invoice administrators can create them in Procore on each invoice contact's behalf.

Things to Consider

Required User Permissions
Additional Information:
- An invoice administrator can:* Create invoices for all of a project's commitments.* Edit amounts on a Schedule of Values when the invoice is in the Draft or Revise & Resubmit status. When multiple invoices exist for one commitment during one billing period, you can only amounts on the latest invoice.* For users legally required to provide claimants with a payment schedule, see Export a Payment Schedule.* Revise the 'Payment Due Date' on the invoice for Early Pay Programs.

Prerequisites

To perform the Steps in this tutorial, the invoice's commitment must have:

A subcontracting company assigned as the 'Contract Company'. See Create a Commitment.
An employee of the 'Contract Company' assigned as the 'Invoice Contact'. See Add Invoice Contacts to a Purchase Order or Subcontract.
A status of Approved or Complete. See What are the default commitment statuses in Procore?
All line items on the Subcontractor Schedule of Values must be in the Approved status. See Review a Subcontractor Invoice as an Invoice Administrator. To learn how to enable the optional Subcontractor SOV tab, see Add a Subcontractor SOV to a Commitment.

In addition, an invoice administrator must create a billing period for the invoice. See Manage Billing Periods.

Steps

Open the New Invoice Page
Update the General Information Card
Update the Schedule of Values Card
Update the Payment Details Card
Add Attachments
Save the Invoice
Optional: Send an Invoice with DocuSign^©

Open the New Invoice Page

Users always create invoices in the project's Commitments tool.

Navigate to the project's Commitments tool.
Find the commitment to create an invoice for in the 'Contracts' tab.
Click the Number link to open it.
At the top of the commitment, click Create and choose Create Invoice from the menu.
Tip
Is the 'Create Invoice' option inactive? To learn why, hover your mouse cursor over the tooltip. This option only activates when Prerequisites are met.

This opens the 'New Invoice for [Contract Number]' page so you can update the General Information card.

Update the General Information Card

In the New Invoice page, update the General Information card. Once updated, continue by updating the Schedule of Values.

Note

The element circled in ORANGE is only available with Procore Pay.

Learn how to update the General Information card as an invoice administrator: Show/Hide

General Information Card

This table details the elements in the 'General Information' card. An invoice administrator can update this information when creating or editing an invoice of behalf of an invoice contact.

Element	Field Type	Description	Learn More
Contract Company	Read Only	Shows the name of the subcontracting company designated as the 'Contract Company' on the commitment.	To change the company name that appears: Assign a different company to the commitment. See Create a Commitment. OR Change the company name by editing the company's record in the Project Directory or Company Directory.
Status*	Drop-down list	Accept the default status (Draft) or select a different status from the drop-down list. When an invoice is ready for review, remember to change its status to Under Review. Once reviewed, remember to change its status to Approved or Revise and Resubmit.	What are the default statuses for Procore invoices?
Invoice #	Alphanumeric text	Procore automatically assigns invoice numbers in sequence using its default numbering system or the custom numbering system defined for your project's invoices.	Read Can I customize the numbering system for financial objects in Procore? before changing this number.
Billing Period*	Drop-down list	Accept the billing period that appears by default or select any billing period from the drop-down list. Note: Invoice contacts and users with 'Standard' level permissions on the Commitments tool can only select a billing period when an invoice is NOT already associated with it.	Only invoice administrators can Create Billing Periods.
Billing Date*	Calendar control	Shows the billing date for the selected billing period. You can change the date for this invoice with the calendar control.	Only invoice administrators can Create Billing Periods.
Period Start*	Calendar control	Shows the start date for the selected billing period. You can change the date for this invoice with the calendar control.	Only invoice administrators can Create Billing Periods.
Period End*	Calendar control	Shows the end date for the selected billing period. You can change the date for this invoice with the calendar control. Note: To help project managers track how invoices impact a project's budget, the 'Billing Period' date on an invoice aligns with the work performed on a project.	Only invoice administrators can Create Billing Periods.
Billing Type: Progress Billing	Option button	Requires Procore Pay If the subcontractor is submitting progress billings for an ongoing project, choose this option.	When your company has Procore Pay, this setting works with the Invoicing Settings for Progress Conditional and Progress Unconditional lien waivers. See Enable Lien Waivers & Set Default Templates on Projects.	Billing Type: Final Billing	Option button	Requires Procore Pay If the subcontractor is submitting a one-time invoice or if this is the final invoice for an ongoing project, choose this option.	When your company has Procore Pay, this setting works with the Invoicing Settings for Final Conditional and Final Unconditional lien waivers. See Enable Lien Waivers & Set Default Templates on Projects.
Submitted Date	Calendar control	Select the date the invoice was submitted to your company by the subcontractor.	Typically, this is printed on the invoice that you received from the subcontracting company.

Update the Payment Details Card

The 'Payment Details' card appears next to the 'General Information card for invoice administrators with Procore Pay.

Payment Details Card

To change the payment due date for this invoice, select a new date from the Payment Due Date calendar.

In Beta - Early Pay Programs

When a payee is enrolled in an Early Pay Program, this card shows the payee's Early Pay Program enrollment Status, Due Date, and Fee. See Review and Manage Early Pay Enrollments as a Payee. The Early Pay Program assigned to the Procore Project automatically determines the Due Date and Fee. See About Early Pay Programs.

Update the Schedule of Values

The data entry fields on an invoice's Schedule of Values depend on the corresponding commitment's accounting method (Amount Based or Unit/Quantity Based). To learn more, see How do I set the accounting method for a contract?

Tips

Don't see a column? If you personalize the column layout, the columns you see may be different from the system's default columns. To reset the column layout to the system default, click the Overflow icon in any column header and choose Reset Columns. See Manage Rows and Columns on a Subcontractor Invoice's Schedule of Values.
Billing for stored materials in Procore? To learn how see About Stored Materials on Invoices.
Need to set or release retainage? For details, see Set or Release Retainage on a Subcontractor Invoice.

Click here to view the steps for Amount Based data entry.

Amount Based Data Entry

For Amount Based commitment contracts, use these steps to update an invoice's Schedule of Values.

Tip

The invoice must be the most recent one and it must be in the Draft or Revise and Resubmit status.

In the Schedule of Values card, click one of these options:
- To edit one or multiple line items, mark the Item Number checkbox(es) for the line item(s) to modify.
- To edit all line items, mark the checkbox in the Item Number column header.
  Notes
  You can alternatively update the Schedule of Values line-by-line. Do this by clicking one or more editable cells and entering your data directly.
  Fields that accept direct data entry are: Work Completed This Period, New Materials Stored, Previous Materials Stored, Total Completed & Stored to Date (%), Work Retainage This Period ($), Work Retainage This Period (%), and Total Retainage Released.
  If the Enable Stored Materials Retainage setting is turned ON in the commitment's Advanced Settings tab, you can also enter data in the Materials Retainage ($) column. This setting is turned OFF by default, which hides the column.
Click Edit Values.
This opens the Edit Values panel.
In the Edit Values panel, enter the values for this invoice billing period:
- Optional. Work Completed this Period (%). Enter a value to define the percentage of work completed.
  Example
  Enter 25% in the Work Completed this Period (%) column. When you click Apply, Procore automatically calculates the values in the Total Completed & Stored to Date ($), Total Completed & Stored to Date (%), Balance to Finish, and Work Retainage This Period ($) cells. It also applies updates the invoice totals.
- Optional. Total Completed & Stored to Date (%). Enter a value for the percentage of materials installed and stored on the job site or in a storage facility. This entry represents all work and stored materials for this invoice billing period plus any invoice(s) submitted for this commitment in the past.
  Example
  Enter 40% in the Total Completed & Stored to Date (%) column. When you click Apply, Procore automatically calculates the values in the Work Completed this Period(%), Total Completed & Stored to Date ($), Balance to Finish, and Work Retainage This Period ($) cells. It also applies updates the invoice totals.
- Optional. Work Retainage this Period (%). Enter a value for the retainage percentage to withhold.
- Optional. Total Retainage Released (%). Enter a value for the retainage percentage to release.
Click Apply to update the selected line item(s) in the Schedule of Values.
The system applies your updates to the selected line items and recalculates invoice totals.
Repeat the steps to update all desired line items as needed.
Click Save to save the updates.

Click here to view the steps for Unit/Quantity Based data entry.

Unit/Quantity Based Data Entry

For Unit/Quantity Based commitment contracts, use these steps to update an invoice's Schedule of Values.

Tip

The invoice must be the most recent one and it must be in the Draft or Revise and Resubmit status.

In the Schedule of Values card, choose one of these options:
- To edit one or multiple line items, mark the Item Number checkbox(es) for the line item(s) to modify.
- To edit all line items, mark the checkbox in the Item Number column header.
  Note
  You can alternatively update the Schedule of Values line-by-line. Do this by clicking one or more editable cells and entering your data directly.
  Fields that accept direct data entry are: Total Completed & Stored to Date ($) and New Quantity.
  If the Enable Completed Work Retainage setting is turned ON in the commitment's Advanced Settings tab, you can also enter data in the Work Retainage This Period ($), Work Retainage This Period ($), and Total Retainage Releasedcolumns. When this setting is turned OFF, these columns are hidden.
Click Edit Values.
This opens the Edit Values panel.
In the Edit Values panel, enter the values for this invoice billing period:
- Optional. Total Completed & Stored to Date (%). Enter a value to define the percentage of materials installed and stored on the job site or in a storage facility. This entry represents all work and stored materials for this invoice billing period plus any invoice(s) submitted for this commitment in the past. See
- Optional. Work Completed this Period (%). Enter a value to define the percentage of work completed.
- Optional. Work Retainage this Period (%). Enter a value for the retainage percentage to withhold.
- Optional. Total Retainage Released (%). Enter a value for the retainage percentage to release.
Click Apply to update the selected line item(s) in the Schedule of Values.
The system applies your updates to the selected line items and recalculates invoice totals.
Repeat the steps to update all desired line items as needed.
Click Save to save the updates.