n-How to Send a Receipt on QuickBooks
Open the sales receipt or the paid invoice from Sales, then All Sales, select it, and choose Save and send (or Print or Preview, then Email) to deliver it as a PDF to the customer's email on file. For an invoice payment specifically, you can send a payment receipt straight from the Receive Payment screen right after you record it. Here's both, step by step.
The full walkthrough
1. Find the transaction. Go to Sales, then All Sales. Filter by type if you need to, Sales Receipts for a sales receipt, Invoices for a paid invoice, and open the one you want to send.
2. For a sales receipt, open it and select Save and send. This emails a PDF copy to whatever address is on the customer's profile. You can edit the subject and message before it goes out.
3. No email on file, or sending it another way? Use Print or Preview instead. Choose Print or Preview, then download the PDF. From there you can attach it to a text, a different email account, or print a physical copy.
4. To send a payment receipt after recording an invoice payment, start from Receive Payment. Open the paid invoice, select Receive payment, enter the details, and save.
5. On the confirmation screen, choose the send option. After saving, QuickBooks offers to email the customer a receipt confirming the payment went through. This is a separate document from the invoice itself, it's just proof of payment.
6. Resending something already sent. Open the same transaction again and repeat the Save and send step; QuickBooks doesn't track whether something was already emailed, so resending is exactly the same process as sending it the first time.
Why this adds up faster than it seems like it should
One receipt takes thirty seconds to find and send. A business doing this ten or twenty times a day, every point-of-sale transaction, every paid invoice, every walk-in payment, is losing a real chunk of someone's day to a task that's identical every single time: open the transaction, click send, confirm the email address, move to the next one.
It's also the kind of task that's easy to forget under load. A busy day means receipts queue up and go out late, or a few just don't go out at all until a customer asks where theirs is.
If the sale or the payment already happened somewhere specific, a point of sale, a booking system, a payment page, there's no real reason a person needs to be the one who opens QuickBooks and clicks send every time. The transaction can trigger its own receipt the moment it's recorded.
What we've built on top of QuickBooks receipt sending
Receipt-on-trigger
The moment a sales receipt or a payment gets recorded in QuickBooks, whether it came from a POS, a booking app, or a payment page, the receipt emails itself to the customer automatically, no one has to open the transaction and click send.
Batch sending for a backlog
For a business catching up on receipts that piled up during a busy stretch, a batch job sends everything outstanding in one pass instead of someone clicking through each transaction individually.
How many receipts is someone manually sending in a given week?
Tell us roughly how many and where those sales or payments actually happen, and we'll tell you if the sending step can disappear entirely.
Still clicking send on every receipt yourself?
Tell us where your sales and payments actually happen, in person, through an app, on a payment page, and we'll tell you whether QuickBooks can send the receipt without anyone touching it. And if receipts aren't the real time sink in your business, that's fine too, we automate whatever's manual, anywhere.
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