Making NetSuite’s Invoice Groups Work Smarter in AR

Some finance workflows are so nuanced, they don’t break anything—but they quietly degrade performance. That’s what we saw with NetSuite’s Invoice Groups and how they played out in AR collections platforms like Centime.

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Now, Centime supports this use case natively—letting finance teams operate the way they intended from the start: invoice early, bill at the right time, collect without confusion.

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🧩 The Setup: Invoices Created Immediately, Sent Later

In many organizations, invoices are created before the customer should see them:

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After purchasing materials
When initiating a service engagement
As part of early revenue recognition workflows

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But those invoices are often meant to be held—delivered only when a broader milestone is met.

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NetSuite's Marked for Grouping flag allows users to queue invoices for later consolidation. The idea is: create them now, send them only when the full group is ready.

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🧠 The Opportunity: Honoring Group Intent in Collections

What we saw across teams using Centime was that invoice grouping needed to extend beyond NetSuite and into the AR lifecycle.

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Without respecting the “marked for grouping” flag, early-stage invoices appeared in Centime’s Receivables module—and in some cases, in front of collectors or clients—before they were intended to be sent.

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That wasn’t a bug. But it wasn’t the desired behavior either.

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So we leveled up Centime’s NetSuite sync logic to recognize the true intent behind grouped invoicing.

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✅ What’s New: Group-Aware Invoice Syncing

Now, Centime handles grouped invoices the way finance teams expect:

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Invoices marked for grouping in NetSuite are held back from syncing.
Once the group is finalized and released, Centime pulls in only the grouped invoice.
Collectors chase just that one clean, consolidated bill.
Payments apply across the group with no extra handling.

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This keeps the client-facing experience tidy and ensures internal teams don’t chase partial or premature invoices.

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⚙️ Where This Shows Up

This enhancement started from a construction workflow—but the value goes far beyond that:

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Professional services teams bundling weekly time logs into a monthly invoice
Manufacturers combining part shipments into end-of-week billing
Consulting firms invoicing for prep work but billing at project delivery
Finance teams managing internal accounting while controlling external timing

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What they all have in common: invoice creation ≠ invoice delivery. And now, Centime honors that distinction.

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🧾 The Collections Experience, Upgraded

Now, when a finance team marks invoices for grouping in NetSuite:

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They stay hidden from Centime until the group is released.
What the collector sees matches what the client sees.
Payments apply to the full picture, not scattered fragments.

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That’s better alignment. That’s less cleanup. And it’s exactly how AR should work when it meets real operational complexity.

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Whether you're managing collections today or planning for smarter invoicing tomorrow, Grouped Invoice Support is live and ready in Centime.

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👉 Read the release notes to explore the logic behind it, or book a short demo to see it in action in your NetSuite environment.

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‍*While Centime facilitates traditional banking activities (such as the acceptance of deposits or extensions of credit), these services are actually provided by our banking partner, FNBO.
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*Centime may provide support services to FNBO, as permitted by applicable law, to facilitate the delivery of its bank products and services.

**Deposit placement through ICS is subject to the terms, conditions, and disclosures in the applicable agreements. Although deposits are placed in increments that do not exceed the FDIC standard maximum deposit insurance amount (“SMDIA”) at any one destination bank, a depositor’s balances at the institution that places deposits may exceed the SMDIA (e.g., before settlement for deposits or after settlement for withdrawals) or be uninsured (if the placing institution is not an insured bank). The depositor must make any necessary arrangements to protect such balances consistent with applicable law and must determine whether placement through ICS satisfies any restrictions on its deposits. A list identifying IntraFi network bank

Making NetSuite’s Invoice Groups Work Smarter in AR

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