Invoices and payments
Articles: 41
- Change, cancel or credit an issued invoice
What can still be changed on a final invoice, how the payment link reaches the guest, and how to cancel or create a partial credit note.
- Owner settlement: month-end close, SEPA file and expenses
Send all owner statements of a month at once, download them as a ZIP, pay out by SEPA batch transfer and approve expenses.
- Incoming Invoices: Upload receipts and DATEV export
Upload and extract receipts, detect duplicates, and export them for your tax advisor as a DATEV file, Excel, or CSV.
- Refunds: paying back a whole payment or a single item
How to refund your guest's payment in full or in part: the "Refunds" card in the booking, single items and free partial amounts.
- Guest invoice: Payment status, down payment, and payment link
Which items on the guest invoice count as paid, per booking channel, after payment in check-in, with down payment and payment link.
- Guest invoices: Appearance, bank details, password protection, and export
Logo, header and footer, payment status per channel, bank details with QR code, password protection for the invoice link, and export as PDF, ZIP, or Excel.
- Portal Invoices (CALC-): Commission Receipts for Airbnb and Booking.com
What calculated portal documents are, where you generate them, and why you do not record them additionally.
- Automatically create and send invoices to the guest
The two switches for creation and sending, delivery channel, sending manually, delivery status, and who is listed on the invoice.
- Invoices: different bank account for specific properties
Set up a separate bank account for individual properties or groups to appear on their invoices, keeping the same company and invoice numbers.
- Invoice senders, invoice series, and invoice numbers
Number format and prefixes, what can be changed on the default sender, and additional invoice series for multiple companies or VAT IDs.
- Invoice copy to your bookkeeping
Send every guest invoice to your accountant as a PDF automatically, also to several addresses, and spot when a copy did not arrive.
- Self-service invoices: the guest creates their own invoice
Guests get their invoice themselves via a link, with timing, fallback invoice, and sending.
- Create guest invoice: Draft, live invoice, and payment status
Create an invoice on the booking: Buyer details, line items, payment status, draft, live invoice, follow-up invoice, and payment term.
- Invoices: Overview, invoice list, and settings
Incoming and guest invoices at a glance: list, filters, menu, export, DATEV, and where to find the settings.
- Deposit & protection: protection modes at a glance
Deposit, damage waiver, or insurance: protection modes at a glance and where you set them for all or individual units.
- Security deposit: when it is authorized, captured, and released
When the security deposit is authorized on the card, how you capture it, partially or fully release it, and how automatic release works.
- Damage Waiver
The damage waiver is a non-refundable protection fee instead of or next to the deposit. How to set the fee, coverage, terms and VAT.
- Analytics & Finance: KPIs, financial analysis and financing
What the rental KPIs, financial analysis and financing show, how you filter, costs and operating result, owned/rented/managed, tourist tax and exports.
- Transactions, Xentra fee, and Excel export for accounting
Where you see all guest payments, how the Xentra fee is retained, and what is included in the Excel export.
- Payment link with custom amount from the booking
Collect an amount without an invoice using a Stripe payment link on the booking.
- Subscription & Billing: Plan, Price, and Add-ons
Manage your Xentra subscription: Pro plan per unit, Add-ons, prices and costs, coupon code, payment method, invoices, and cancellation.
- KPIs and Income Statement: how the numbers are calculated
Calculation mode on Rental KPIs: revenue base, period allocation, what does not count, retained cancellation amounts, sorting, and currency.
- Platform fee: how much it is and where to find the proof
On which payments Xentra keeps a platform fee, where you find the current rate and how the monthly invoice documents the fee.
- Report an insurance claim and understand its status
Report damage for an insured booking in the Insurance Claims tab, what you enter and what the statuses Submitted, In review, Approved and Paid mean.
- Trial period and account deletion
How long the trial period runs, that choosing a plan early costs no trial days, what happens after it ends and how to have your Xentra account deleted.
- Owner settlement: Commission and settlement settings
Set up commission model, portal commission, cleaning fee, add-ons, and expenses for your owner settlement.
- Change VAT rates: accommodation, cleaning, and products
Where you set the VAT for accommodation, cleaning, and extra products, what applies without an entry, and what happens when changing a line item.
- Change the currency (e.g. to DKK, CHF, GBP)
Which currency your guests pay in, how to switch it, what happens to existing bookings and what you need to adjust afterwards.
- Lexware Office: Transfer invoices as documents
Guest invoices as documents to Lexware Office: API key, categories, start date, due date, and posting with one click.
- Where your guests' money goes: Payouts and receipts
How guest payments reach you via Stripe Connect, payout schedule, receipt per payout, Excel export, name on the bank statement, and SEPA.
- BMD export (Austria): Invoices and payments for your tax adviser
For properties in Austria: Export invoices and payments via Xentra as a BMD file for your tax adviser (beta).
- E-invoice: ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, FatturaPA and FacturaE
Which e-invoice formats Xentra creates, where you choose the format, and what applies to Italy (FatturaPA, SdI) and Spain (FacturaE).
- Owner statement: Income outside Xentra
Received money for an owner outside Xentra, like a company rental? How to enter the income directly in the owner statement.
- Owner settlement: Sales through Xentra, offers, and transaction fee
Who owns tourist tax, products, and extras from offers in the owner settlement and who bears Xentra's transaction fee.
- Deposit by bank transfer: request, receive, settle
Fixed deposit for long stays and companies: request by bank transfer, mark as received, and settle with deductions after departure.
- Record running costs without a receipt
How to record recurring costs per unit without a receipt, such as cleaning paid in cash, subscriptions or fees, and how they show up in the export.
- Dunning: Payment reminder and reminders for guest invoices
How you set up, prepare, and send payment reminders, 1st reminders, and final reminders for open guest invoices.
- Multiple Stripe accounts: Assign units
Connect a second Stripe account, for example for private apartments, and assign each unit its account so guests can continue booking them.
- Monthly partial invoices for long stays (Beta)
For long stays, issue a partial invoice every month and a final invoice at the end, automatically or manually (Beta).
- Connect Stripe account: Setup, status, and what does not work without a completed account
How you connect Stripe for online payments, what Setup incomplete, Active, and Restricted mean, and what does not work without a completed account.
- Payments for direct bookings: Payment status, Record payment, and deposit
For direct bookings, Payment status shows what is outstanding. Here is how you record payments by bank transfer or cash and plan a deposit.