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# Choose the date on an invoice you raise yourself
- URL: https://blog.prilet.com/choose-the-date-on-an-invoice-you-raise-yourself/
- Published: 2026-09-10T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T13:01:59.000Z
- Author: Anton Karnaukhov
- Tags: Changelog, Invoicing

Raising an invoice by hand is the exception path — a client closing their books early, a month you need to bill before the automatic run gets to it. The date on that invoice decides the due date, the QuickBooks posting, and the year its number is drawn from, so it shouldn't be decided for you.

Generating an invoice by hand used to date it by your billing cadence with no way to say otherwise, which is wrong exactly when the exception is the reason you're doing it by hand. The card on Generate Invoices now carries its own date, defaulted from the cadence and editable before you send — and the due date moves as you change it, so the consequence is visible rather than discovered later. The date is bounded, not free: it can't predate the work it bills, and it can't land outside the period it covers. [How invoices are generated](https://prilet.com/help?ref=blog.prilet.com#bi-invoices).

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### Also shipped

- Before invoices go out, a summary says exactly what will be sent and to whom.
- Clients are told when an invoice is voided.
- The adjustment deadline stays on the timeline after it passes, so it's clear why a week closed when it did.