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Sales & Billing Dashboard: Invoices, Estimates, Receipts

Available in Quicken Business & Personal

The Sales & Billing dashboard is your central workspace for managing customer transactions. This is where you create, view, and track estimates, invoices, and sales receipts—the core documents that help you run your business professionally and keep your finances accurate.


What You Can Do Here

From the Sales & Billing dashboard, you can:

  • Create estimates, invoices, or sales receipts

  • View customer transactions organized by document type

  • Track what’s been issued, paid, or still outstanding

  • Monitor issue dates and amounts

  • See your sales activity at a glance

Use the tabs—Estimates, Invoices, and Sales Receipts—to switch between document types. You Access the dashboard anytime from the Sales & Billing section in the left navigation.


Which Should I Use?

Choose based on when payment happens:

Got paid right away?Sales Receipt
Need to collect payment later?Invoice
Customer wants pricing first?Estimate


How These Work Together

These documents reflect the natural flow of working with customers—from pricing, to billing, to payment:

  • Estimate — pricing before work begins

  • Invoice — payment requested after work is completed

  • Sales Receipt — payment received at the time of sale

Simple examples:

  • A photographer sends an estimate, converts it to an invoice after the event, then records payment

  • A consultant completes work, sends an invoice, and gets paid later

  • A customer pays at checkout, and a sales receipt records the sale


Why Choosing the Right Document Matters

Using the right transaction document at the right time keeps your records accurate and useful.

For your bookkeeping:

  • Invoices track who owes you money

  • Sales receipts record income immediately

  • Estimates don’t affect your books until converted

For your business clarity:

  • Clear separation between unpaid and paid work

  • More accurate income and cash-flow reporting

  • Fewer corrections later

For your customers:

  • Professional documentation

  • Clear expectations around pricing and payment

  • Better records for their own accounting


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