Many general accounting programs can generate identical invoices for multiple clients at one time through a process called [simple_tooltip content=’Batch invoicing allows you to create a single invoice for multiple customers reducing. the time and effort you spend it is the perfect solution for businesses that invoice groups of customers regularly.’]batch invoicing[/simple_tooltip].^[1][2] This is different from printing or emailing personalized invoices to clients through a [simple_tooltip content=’A single PDF “envelope” that can contain multiple documents such as PDF, Word, Excel, TIFF, etc.’]batch print[/simple_tooltip] or [simple_tooltip content=’You can send batch emails directly from an email editor. This allows you to quickly send the email to contacts as soon as it is ready. Batch emails allows its customers to send mass email messages to multiple lists of recipients at the time specified.’]batch email[/simple_tooltip] process.^[3][4] Since law firms create personalized invoices, they do not need a batch invoicing feature in their accounting program.  What firms need is for the program to batch print and batch email invoices.

General accounting programs like Quickbooks and Xero can batch print and batch email client invoices.^[3][4] These features are similar to and function as well as specialized legal billing programs.

References

1. QuickBooks Pro 2018 Tutorial Creating Batch Invoices
2. Batch Sales Invoices in Xero
3. How to email multiple invoices at once from QuickBooks
4. Xero Business Community