Automating Accounts Receivable for Complex Billing at Scale

Neon One's finance team managed a high volume of recurring customer billing that required daily invoice generation, payment application, and credit memo application. The manual process created a scaling bottleneck as transaction volumes grew.

Client Overview

In Business Since: 2018
Industry: Nonprofit Software & Technology
Enviroment: Oracle NetSuite ERP
Modules Deployed: 6

Neon One builds fundraising, donor management, and payment software for nonprofits across the United States. Their finance team runs high-volume recurring billing with invoicing rules that vary by customer, schedule, and start date.

Key Results

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Fully Automated Daily Invoicing

Eliminated manual invoice generation across billing schedules, start dates, and customer-specific rules.
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Reduced Human Error

Payments and credit memos apply automatically to open invoices, reducing accuracy issues from manual processing.
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Improved Billing Accuracy

Invoices generate with correct invoice dates, due dates, and AutoPay dates while aligning with customer billing schedules.
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Scalable Operations

Automation handles growing transaction volumes without increasing administrative workload, freeing the finance team for higher-value activities.

The Challenge

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Complex Billing Scenarios

Customers used a combination of billing schedules, billing start dates, recurring arrangements, and backdated billing situations that automation had to accommodate accurately.

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Backdated Invoice Processing

Historical Sales Orders triggered standard NetSuite behavior that created immediately overdue invoices, requiring additional logic to maintain reasonable due dates and AutoPay schedules.

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Weekend and Holiday Billing

Invoices scheduled for weekends and holidays needed to process according to specific business rules while preserving the original customer billing schedule.

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Customer Payment Allocation

Unapplied payments had to distribute automatically across multiple open invoices without duplicating applications or over-applying balances.

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Credit Memo Application

Credit memos needed to apply automatically while maintaining accounting accuracy and avoiding conflicts with customer payment applications.

The Solution

Automated Sales Order to Invoice Processing

Built a custom NetSuite automation that identifies eligible Sales Orders and generates invoices based on billing schedules, next bill dates, and billing start dates.

Advanced Billing Date Logic

Implemented custom rules to handle billing schedules, backdated scenarios, Net 30 terms, due-on-receipt terms, and weekend and holiday processing without breaking customer schedules.

Automated Customer Payment Application

Configured unapplied payments to distribute automatically across eligible open invoices, supporting partial payments, multi-invoice allocation, and remaining balances.

Automated Credit Memo Application

Developed a separate process that applies available credits against eligible open invoices, supporting partial applications, multi-invoice distribution, and repeat processing.

Automated Monitoring and Validation

Created custom saved searches that provide visibility into invoices generated, payments applied, credits applied, and any transactions requiring review.

Modules

Accounts Receivable
Sales Order Management
Billing Management
Customer Payments
Credit Memo Management
SuiteScript

Integrations

Oracle NetSuite Billing Engine
SuiteScript 2.1 Automation

Business Outcomes

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Finance Capacity Released

Time previously spent sequencing invoices and matching payments now goes to higher-value work.
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Continuity Risk Removed

Billing no longer depends on one person being available, removing single-person dependency from the monthly cycle.
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Growth Absorbed Without Headcount

Transaction volume scales without a matching increase in administrative effort.

Is your billing process running on manual effort?

Daily invoicing, payment application, and credit memos do not have to consume your finance team. Stockton10 builds automation natively inside NetSuite, so the work runs whether or not anyone is at their desk.