How to get started?

First of all, thank you for choosing Accent!

Before issuing invoices / e-Invoices, we need to go through 3 setup steps, let's start now!

1. Business Settings

2. Taxes Management

3. Invoice Templates

👉 Business Settings

It is a compulsory settings, and usually only need to setup for one time during onboard. Inside Business Settings, there are 6 sub-sections, listed as follows:

a. General : (optional) General settings that contains of timezone and date format

b. Currency : (optional) Currency position, decimal places and separators

c. Invoice ** : (Compulsory) Setup invoice and quotation running number, and basic layout designs for your invoice, quotation and purchase order
Tutorial 👉 Link

d. Payment : (optional) Setup payment gateway so that your customers can pay to you through online payment

e. Email : (optional) Setup your own company's mail server if you wish to send emails to your customers with your company's official email (eg. admin@abc.com), else all outgoing emails will be sent by Accent default mail server (mail@accentfin.com)

f. Settings ** : (Compulsory) Setup e-Invoice function by filling in your company's details such as TIN, Business Registration Number, unique Client ID and Client Secret for your company issued from MyInvois Portal and other contact details
Tutorial 👉 Link

NOTE
The sections marked with ** are compulsory settings and needed to be setup in order to issue a proper invoice / e-Invoice.

This business settings page could be accessed by clicking Business Settings located at the side menu (after you logged in your Accent account).

👉 Taxes Management

Taxes management is an optional settings, this is because not all kinds of businesses will involve taxes in their nature. For instance, SST or GST or Service Charge.

This usually is a one time setup during onboard and do not require frequent updates, if your business is compulsory to apply taxes, you can refer to the tutorial below on how to setup taxes.

Tutorial 👉 Link

👉 Invoice Templates

Accent offers you the freedom to design your own company's invoice, quotation and purchase order layout, which is known as Invoice templates. The layout design (template) of these documents should aligns with your company theme and identity. Invoice templates is a compulsory settings and usually is a one time setup during onboard, and the templates created can be used for all of your documents issued through Accent system.

To understand more about Invoice Templates, refer to the following tutorial.

Tutorial 👉 Link

Done Setup! Now you can start issuing invoice / e-Invoice.

 

Additional Notes

In Accent, for Invoices and Purchase Orders, you are allowed to issue different kinds of documents that suit your needs.

However, the usage of each document needs to be differentiated clearly in order to avoid mistakes especially when the document is required to submit to LHDN server for validation, please refer to the following to understand the usage of different documents.

 

More tutorials...

👉 How to issue e-Invoice?

👉 How to issue self-billed e-Invoice?

👉 How to import customers data?

👉 How to import vendors (suppliers) data?

👉 How to enable entry form for my customer or vendor (supplier) to fill in their own details without me keying in data one by one?

👉 How to import invoices data?

👉 How to import purchase orders (self-billed) data?

👉 Know more about transactions (income and expense) / POS transactions?

👉 How to import transactions data?

👉 How to convert transactions / POS transactions to invoice / purchase / consolidated / e-Invoice?

👉 How to allow my customers to request individual e-Invoice on their own without me issuing one by one?