Does Event Hub support "invoicing"?
This is a very common question that appears when customers plan to use Event Hub for selling assets or Food & Beverage and the answer is.... "It depends" ...let's see why!
An invoice is normally generated on a sale(of any product) for a couple of reasons;
1) to record the revenue to a profit and loss statement.
2) record the GST added for BAS remittance
3) IF the sale is on credit -to record the debt owed.
Event Hub does not generate a BASTGST statement nor does it manage a "debtors book". These are specialist finance tools and we can guarantee if you are in business you already have tools that do this.
However, remember, Event Hub sells via a gateway - normally - hence there is often no debt created on the sale
Hence the easiest way to use EH selling is to issue a sales confirmation order as normal - and export or download sales at the end of the month and upload the revenue to your finance system. The export splits the revenue into fees/GST and product.
Other options
Use Stripe Invoicing
We suggest STRIPE as a gateway and one of the reasons is that STRIPE.COM does have an inbuilt invoicing system.
Integrate with your accounting system
Event Hub is happy to integrate (for free)with a cloud-based accounting system like XERO.COM / MYOB.COM.AU (CLOUD) or COUPA.COM. Our team has done this many times and it only takes a few hours.
If your system is not cloud-based we can share the data and endpoints shared but you would need an expert familiar with your tool to enable integration,
This issue is a great example where we are happy to share advice and learnings for free