So called planet saving emailed invoices!

[jerseycowsman]

over the last few years a lot of our suppliers have asked us if they can email us their invoice to help save the planet.
Bollox! It's saving them money and hassle, where's the benefit to us? Our bills are no lower, perhaps they should put a £1 charge on any invoice that people still want posted.
I don't let them have our email address anymore

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Saving paper to lower their carbon footprint.


And then we print a copy for our records.

 

[pine_guy]

Goes straight into my accounting package. I prefer it. Apart from when for historical reasons they send it to my mothers email address. She promptly forwards the email on to me, but then also prints a copy and leaves it on my desk

 

[Beowulf]

over the last few years a lot of our suppliers have asked us if they can email us their invoice to help save the planet.
Bollox! It's saving them money and hassle, where's the benefit to us? Our bills are no lower, perhaps they should put a £1 charge on any invoice that people still want posted.
I don't let them have our email address anymore

A quid? I'd be charging ten times that if someone demanded a paper invoice for anything. Such a pointless waste of resources.

We don't even print payslips these days, haven't done for years. All emailed and available for download from the employee portal.

Anything paper-based that gets sent here is immediately scanned into the document management software and the paper copy shredded and recycled, though it's increasingly rare to get anything other than junk mail these days; that goes straight to the shredder.

Join the modern world. Not everything has to start "Hear Ye, Hear Ye...." and be hand written on parchment any more.

 

[Dragon]

I prefer it. I'd go as far to say that I'd avoid companies that still send by post. Of course I'm not that picky. I certaintly make a pick of asking. But not including payment details on invoice is a little annoying.

 

[vantage]

So all your suppliers electronically invoice you? If so you're lucky as you only need to run one paperless system.
Unfortunately many farmers have suppliers who do not and so paper systems prevail as it is easier to deal with,ask my wife.who does our accounts!

 

[Brisel]

The firm I work for is supposed to be going "paperless" but the Taxman still wants to see hard copies so I get them emailed to me, print off a copy for head office, sign it off & code it for the accounts then photocopy that for my own records...

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Well it helps keep the rural postie in a job. If I didn’t get loads of rubbish through the post what would I use to get the fire going when it’s cold?

 

[Brisel]

 

[Clive]

Much prefer paperless - forward the email to our accounts and it’s saved with no need to print or input

50p stamp saved and a lot better for the planet

What’s not to like ?

Should be law imo

 

[spin cycle]

hear yea hear yea.....oi prefer proper bills'n cheques

 

[watcher72]

Email an invoice to most hands on farmers and they tend to get missed for payment.

Send a paper copy and it will get read noted any issues raised and paid on time.

That has been my experience with customer.

 

[Boysground]

Much prefer email.

Email pdf files get saved then I can email them to my accounts package. The pdf then appears alongside the data entry so I can allocate it. Same happens with paper except I scan it 1st. The accountant can see this immediately so no need to send him paper copies.

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[Courier]

50p stamp saved and a lot better for the planet

What’s not to like ?

Should be law imo

If you are still using 50p stamps for second class post then the receivers are probably having to pay • Letters/Large Letters - insufficient postage paid - £1.50 flat fee - for their post as well -

Went up to 58p at the beginning of March

Franking is 44p 2nd class and 60p 1st class.

 

[Boysground]

If you are still using 50p stamps for second class post then the receivers are probably having to pay • Letters/Large Letters - insufficient postage paid - £1.50 flat fee - for their post as well -

Went up to 58p at the beginning of March

Franking is 44p 2nd class and 60p 1st class.

I hardly use stamps these days. 9 out of 10 are probably to send passports to CTS

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[farmerm]

A quid? I'd be charging ten times that if someone demanded a paper invoice for anything. Such a pointless waste of resources.

We don't even print payslips these days, haven't done for years. All emailed and available for download from the employee portal.

Anything paper-based that gets sent here is immediately scanned into the document management software and the paper copy shredded and recycled, though it's increasingly rare to get anything other than junk mail these days; that goes straight to the shredder.

Join the modern world. Not everything has to start "Hear Ye, Hear Ye...." and be hand written on parchment any more.

What will you do when the Earth take a direct hit from a solar flare that wipes out your hard drive and all your cloud back ups... of course WHEN it happens we will be back 200 years but without the skills and infrastructures, lost invoices will be the least of our worries.

 

[farmerm]

Much prefer paperless - forward the email to our accounts and it’s saved with no need to print or input

50p stamp saved and a lot better for the planet

What’s not to like ?

Should be law imo

Should be Law that Auctioneers pay BACCS too, a cheque 2 weeks after sale takes the pee, not only do they sit on a couple million quid but I then have to go pay the bloody thing in.

 

[Beowulf]

What will you do when the Earth take a direct hit from a solar flare that wipes out your hard drive and all your cloud back ups... of course WHEN it happens we will be back 200 years but without the skills and infrastructures, lost invoices will be the least of our worries.

In that event I suspect finding an old invoice for HMRC will be pretty low on the list of my priorities, and everyone else's for that matter.

I'll add it to my risk mitigation plan though, somewhere between a meteor strike and alien invasion.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Im still pestering a few firms to stop mailing invoices, either email or dont send one at all

best are created in the sellers xero and sync directly into mine, sadly very rare

 

[farmerm]

In that event I suspect finding an old invoice for HMRC will be pretty low on the list of my priorities, and everyone else's for that matter.

I'll add it to my risk mitigation plan though, somewhere between a meteor strike and alien invasion.

Probability of it occurring is higher than both of those, it would solve global warming and pollution as the resulting panic culls a big chunk of the population in the west.