Joint Invoicing## Definition

Joint Invoicing is a routing designation given to a manually generated billing document instructing the master system to actively suppress its immediate financial output, forcing those generated charges to pool inside the contract’s standard data queue instead.

Business Purpose and Architecture

If a utility agent creates a $25 manual charge for a “Missed Appointment Fee,” sending an immediate standalone bill costs the company unnecessary postage. Assessing it via Joint Invoicing tells the architecture to withhold that sum. Architecturally, the Billing Line Items sit securely within the EITR un-invoiced table space. When the next fully scheduled Periodic Billing job runs natively across that specific Contract Account, these stored line items are automatically swept up and seamlessly merged directly onto that month’s standard invoice.