Auto-Invoicing from Bookings

Last updated September 22, 2026

When you create or update a booking with a price and confirmation number, JourneyFuse automatically adds it as a line item on a draft invoice for that trip. This saves you from manually creating invoices for every booking.

How It Works

  1. You create a booking (flight, hotel, cruise, etc.) inside a trip
  2. If the booking has a confirmation number and a price greater than $0, the system looks for an existing draft invoice on that trip
  3. If a draft exists, the booking is added as a new line item
  4. If no draft exists, one is created automatically
  5. The line item name follows the format: "Flight - Delta" or just "Hotel" if no supplier is set

Auto-invoicing also triggers when you update a booking's status, price, or confirmation number.

When Auto-Invoice is Skipped

The system skips auto-invoicing and shows you a notification explaining why:

Skip ReasonWhat it means
No confirmation numberAdd a confirmation number to the booking first
No priceAdd a total price greater than $0
No clientAssign a client to the trip first
Already invoicedA line item with the same name and price already exists on the draft
Turned off for your agencyAuto-invoicing is switched off in Settings (see below)
The invoice came from a proposalThe trip's invoice is the one your client accepted at checkout, so it already bills what they bought. Bookings you add afterwards are not added to it automatically, whether they are the same rooms entered as real reservations or something new. If a booking is an extra charge, use Add to invoice in the notification

Invoices created at checkout

When a client accepts a proposal or books a group cabin, their invoice is itemized from what they accepted. When you then enter the real supplier reservations, JourneyFuse leaves that invoice as it is, so your client never sees the same cabin billed twice.

If you would rather the invoice list the real bookings, one line per reservation with its own price, delete the lines that came from the proposal. From then on, each booking you add or update is billed on its own line as usual.

Turning It Off

Auto-invoicing suits most advisors, so it is on for every agency by default. It is a per-booking behaviour though, which is awkward in one specific situation: a group where one person pays for everybody. Six cabins entered as six bookings across six trips give you six drafts, and you would delete five of them before billing the payer for the lot.

Go to Settings → Agency & Branding → Defaults, card Payments & Invoice Defaults, and choose what happens When you add a priced booking. It applies to your whole agency:

  • Draft an invoice for me to send (the default). Your client can pay once you open or send it.
  • Make it payable on the client's trip. The draft is opened for payment straight away, with no email, so Make a Payment is on the trip as soon as the booking is priced.
  • Do nothing. No invoice until you create one.

With Do nothing:

  • New bookings no longer start or join a draft invoice on their own
  • You build each invoice yourself, using New Invoice on the trip, or Add to draft invoice on an individual booking when you do want one billed
  • Bookings you have already put on an invoice keep tracking their price, so correcting a booking still corrects the invoice line

Existing invoices are untouched either way, and you can turn it back on at any time.

Retroactive Invoicing

If you assign a client to a trip that already has priced bookings, the system retroactively creates a draft invoice with all eligible bookings as line items. You don't need to go back and manually add them.

This follows the same switch: with auto-invoicing turned off for your agency, assigning a client no longer creates the draft either.

Invoice Terms & Conditions

You can add terms and conditions to any invoice from the invoice editor:

Agency Terms

Toggle Your terms to add your standard terms. The default text comes from your workspace settings (Settings → Agency & Branding → Defaults → Terms & Conditions, or Settings → My Business → Terms & Conditions for a solo advisor). You can override the text for individual invoices.

Supplier Terms

If the trip has supplier bookings, you can include each supplier's terms and conditions. Toggle individual suppliers on or off, and optionally override their default text for this specific invoice.

Terms appear on the public invoice page that your client sees.

Managing the Draft

Auto-invoicing creates a Draft invoice — nothing is sent to the client until you review and send it. You can:

  • Edit line items, amounts, and descriptions
  • Add additional manual line items
  • Set due dates and payment schedules
  • Add traveler shares for split payments
  • Remove any auto-generated items you don't need