Manually Importing an Invoice

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Use this procedure to manually import an invoice formatted per the LEDES 1998B, LEDES 1998BI/1998BI V2, or LEDES 2000 specifications.

To Import an Invoice:

1. Open the Invoices module.

2. On the Invoice List page, click the Import button.

3. On the Invoice Import dialog box, click the Browse button to locate the file using the Choose file dialog box, or enter the file name manually. However, you must enter the full path including the drive and the file extension (for example: F:\Documents\ClientName\InvImport.txt).

4. Select the import file type.

5. Click Continue.

6. When the Import Status message box displays, click Close.

To view a log of success/failure for invoice import, open InvoiceImport.log (can be accessed from the Diagnostics component in Suite Manager or in the data root directory under logs). This log is an appending transaction report created during the import process. If problems were encountered, they will be listed in this file.

Required Information:

The following information must be included in the LEDES files.

LEDES 1998B or 1998BI

§ Matter number

§ Vendor's Tax ID number

LEDES 2000

§ Matter number

§ Vendor's Tax ID number

§ Entity Number

Any other information to be included is based on your company's billing guidelines and requirements. For a schema of the LEDES format specifications, go to www.ledes.org.