invoice - a document that contains a specific list of goods to their overall costs and surcharge included.This form also contains information about the quantity and range of goods, their characteristics and conditions of supply.
essence of this concept
invoice - a form confirming the obligation of the buyer to the seller.When you send the document at first there is an obligation to pay for goods with his presentation.Thus, this form has transferred to the buyer by the seller in the sale of a particular product.
invoice is used mainly at the level of international trade and is used in the transfer of goods or groups of certain goods to the foreign buyer.
allowed registration of several formats of this document.The most commonly used is the invoice on the letterhead of the sender.In the absence of such a form, this form can be printed on plain paper.
invoice may be drawn up in a language that is understood by both sides of the transaction.Most often it is the English language.
Main details
invoice - a document like an invoice, applicable in the territory of Russia.Its form is not unified domestic legislation, but in the preparation must be used in some important details, among them the necessary information relating to the goods transferred.
Thus, should contain:
- date and place of the document;
- the sending country;
- full name and address of the organization that sends the goods in accordance with the constituent documents;
- the recipient country;
- full name and legal address of the recipient;
- details of the agreement, according to which the transfer is made, this product.
Another indispensable prop, which should include the invoice, - the form that includes information about the main characteristics of the transmitted product: the complete list, range, total and by each of the form (m, pcs. Or kg), components (if any), the scope of the total cost and cost per unit, storage and delivery.
The amount transferred for payment of goods in this document should be made in the currency specified in the contract for the supply.When specifying the price in the contract in the same monetary unit, while the payment of the foreign buyer will be in another, the invoice must be specified rate and the date on which the conversion will be implemented.
Whatever seemed strange, but even the invoice must contain information such as the transmission characteristics of the goods (eg, shape, color or size).
Such commercial invoice signed by both parties with an indication of the persons who have a right to the signature of the seller and the buyer
Additional information
In this document the conditions for transfer and transportation not specified, as these operations are specified in the supply agreement of a particulargoods.Invoice - it is still a document in which special attention is paid to the characteristics of the goods to be transferred from seller to buyer.Also this form is sometimes supplemented and other items, clarifies them.
When shipped prepaid products do not need to be an invoice.
proforma invoice: In some cases, issued
If the contract for the supply of goods stated that the foreign buyer will transfer the advance payment, the seller makes out a proforma-invoice.This document contains the same information as in the commercial invoice.However, it is in the nature of preliminary data that can be specified later.So it's really happening.Issued later invoice must already contain precise data on the shipped goods, services rendered or work performed.
