Invoice Insights
Read the payment, aging, revenue, operations, customer, and status metrics, and the accounting limits behind each number.
Invoice Insights summarizes the team's invoice history into payment, aging, revenue, operations, customer, and status signals. Use it for review and diagnosis. Use the invoice list or a full invoice record when you need to take action.
Before You Start
- Sign in and select the team whose invoices you want to analyze.
- Confirm that invoice issue dates, due dates, paid dates, statuses, customer links, taxes, discounts, and reminders are accurate. Each metric is only as reliable as those records.
- Record payments and status corrections before you use the page for a finance review.
- For multi-currency teams, plan to reconcile monetary metrics by currency in the invoice list or your accounting system.
Open Invoice Insights
- Open Invoices.
- Select Insights in the section navigation.
- Start with the payment and aging signals near the top.
- Continue through the revenue, operations, customer, and status views.
- Select View Invoices to move to the invoice list, or Create Invoice to open invoice creation.
Recommended Review Sequence
- Check Total Outstanding (AR) and Invoice Aging Buckets for collection exposure.
- Compare Avg Days to Pay, Avg Days Overdue, Collection Rate, and On-Time Payment Rate.
- Review Customer Payment Patterns to find customers that need different follow-up.
- Check Reminder Effectiveness before you change the reminder strategy.
- Use Status Breakdown and Conversion Funnel to find records stuck in draft, unsent, or unpaid states.
- Open the invoice list.
- Apply the related status or customer filter.
Metric Reference
Payment performance
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Avg Days to Pay | Average calendar days from issue date to paid date for paid invoices |
| Avg Days Overdue | Average days past due for invoices that are now unpaid or overdue and past due |
| Collection Rate | Paid invoice count divided by all invoice records in the team |
| On-Time Payment Rate | Paid invoices with a paid date on or before the due date, divided by paid invoices with usable dates |
The collection-rate denominator includes draft, scheduled, and canceled records as well as paid and outstanding invoices. It is an all-time record-completion ratio, not a time-bounded or amount-weighted cash collection rate.
Aging analysis
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Oldest Invoice Age | Age of the single oldest past-due unpaid or overdue invoice |
| Invoice Aging Buckets | Past-due balances grouped into 0–30, 31–60, 61–90, and 90+ day buckets |
Aging uses the due date, with issue or creation dates as fallbacks when necessary. Future-due invoices do not appear in the overdue aging buckets.
Revenue and financial metrics
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Total Outstanding (AR) | Sum of unpaid and overdue invoice amounts |
| Revenue Recognition | Total invoice amounts grouped across statuses, with the paid amount called out separately |
| Discount Usage Rate | Share of all invoice records with a positive discount, plus total discount amount |
| Tax & VAT Summary | Tax and VAT amounts recorded across invoice statuses |
Revenue Recognition is a label for operations, not a GAAP or tax recognition rule. Its displayed total can include draft, scheduled, unpaid, overdue, paid, and canceled records. Use the paid callout for cash-paid context and reconcile official reporting in your accounting system.
Tax, VAT, and discount totals also include records across the lifecycle. These records include unpaid, draft, and canceled invoices. Do not use these totals directly when you file or remit tax.
Operations metrics
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Invoice-to-Cash Cycle | Average time from invoice creation to payment for paid invoices |
| Invoice View Rate | Sent invoices with a recorded view divided by sent invoices |
| Reminder Effectiveness | Invoices paid after a reminder divided by invoices with reminders |
| Invoice Volume Trends | Monthly counts of invoice records by creation date across available history |
Invoice volume includes all statuses and uses creation date, not issue date. Months with no invoice records can be absent. They do not always appear as zero.
Customer behavior
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Repeat Customer Rate | Customers with more than one invoice divided by customers represented in invoice history |
| Average Invoice Value | Mean invoice amount across recorded statuses |
| Customer Payment Patterns | Ranked best and worst payers with counts, amount, average days to pay, and on-time rate |
Customer rankings are a focused list, not an exhaustive customer export. Open the customer or invoice workspace before you change terms or collection treatment.
Status distribution
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Status Breakdown | Invoice amount and count grouped by paid, unpaid, overdue, draft, scheduled, and canceled status |
| Conversion Funnel | Separate counts for invoices now in draft, invoices with a sent date, and invoices now paid |
The conversion funnel is an all-time snapshot of operations. Eigenn counts the three stages independently from the current status and the send history. They are not a cohort. A paid invoice does not have to appear in the current draft count.
Turn an Insight Into Action
Follow up on aging exposure
- Note the oldest age and the largest non-zero aging bucket.
- Select View Invoices.
- Choose Overdue.
- Add Due Date, Customer, or Amount filters.
- Open the invoice.
- Review the payments and the communication history.
- Choose a reminder or recovery action that is correct for the status.
Investigate a low collection rate
- Compare the paid count with the total invoice count shown under the card.
- Review Status Breakdown for drafts, canceled records, and scheduled invoices that affect the denominator.
- Open Invoices → Invoices and filter those statuses.
- Correct stale drafts or statuses before you treat the rate as a collections result.
Investigate payment behavior
- Review the best and worst payer tables.
- Confirm that the customer has enough paid invoices to support a pattern.
- Open the customer's invoices and check due and paid dates.
- Use the history that you checked when you set future payment terms or follow-up times.
Share an Insights Section
Share controls are available on Insights sections when you point to the section on a desktop-sized view.
- Point to the section.
- Select Share widget.
- Choose Live (Relative) for a range that moves, or Snapshot (Absolute) for fixed start and end dates.
- Choose the shared view's theme.
- Optionally turn on Password Protection.
- Enter at least four characters.
- Select Create Link.
- Copy the shareable link or embed code.
- Open the link in a private window.
- Check its data, date behavior, theme, and password before you send it.
The date range in the share sheet sets up the shared link. It is not a global filter for the Insights page that you now see.
What to Check Before You Report a Metric
- you selected the correct team
- the count below the card is non-zero
- paid invoices have a
paidstatus and paid date - sent and viewed invoices have the related activity dates
- Eigenn recorded the reminders before payment, for reminder-effectiveness analysis
- overdue records have correct due dates
- the customer records use consistent links
- monetary values use one currency, or you reconciled them by currency elsewhere
- you include or exclude draft and canceled records to match your reporting purpose
Edge Cases and Limitations
- Most Insights metrics are all-time. The page has no global date-range control now.
- The page has no CSV or PDF export control now.
- You can rearrange widgets in the current view. The page gives no visible confirmation that it saved a custom order. Refresh the page before you depend on the layout as permanent.
- Eigenn shows empty history as
0, No invoices yet, No paid invoices yet, or another empty-state message. Zero is not evidence of good performance without a count below the card. - Monetary cards can blend raw amounts from more than one currency, but show a single currency label. Treat multi-currency totals, averages, status percentages, tax, VAT, discounts, and revenue as directional. They stay directional until you reconcile them by currency.
- Total Outstanding (AR) does not subtract partial payments or payment plans in its aggregate calculation.
- Very large invoices can skew the average invoice value. The average also includes draft and canceled records.
- Payment metrics depend on invoice-level status and dates. A bank transaction alone does not repair a missing paid status or paid date.
- Analytics can take a short time to show a recent invoice or status update. Refresh the page after you confirm the source record.
Troubleshoot
A card shows zero even though invoices exist
Read the line below the card. Some metrics need paid invoices, sent dates, view events, reminders, past-due balances, or repeat customers. Open the invoice list and check the necessary data.
Collection Rate looks lower than expected
Its total count includes draft, scheduled, and canceled invoices. Review Status Breakdown. Then clean up stale records, or use a separate reconciled collection calculation for finance reporting.
Outstanding AR does not match payment progress
The aggregate AR card sums unpaid and overdue invoice amounts and does not subtract partial payments. Use each invoice's full page to review Payments received, Credits, and Amount remaining.
Revenue, tax, or status totals look wrong in a multi-currency team
Do not add different currencies as if they were one currency. Use the invoice list's currency-aware summary breakdown or your accounting system to reconcile each currency separately.
Aging is empty but unpaid invoices exist
Unpaid invoices that are not yet due do not belong in overdue aging buckets. Check their due dates and use the Open or Unpaid invoice view instead.
A recent status change is not reflected
Open the invoice and confirm the new status first, then refresh Insights. If the record is correct but the metric remains stale, retry after the analytics read has caught up.
I cannot see the Share widget control
The control appears on hover. Use a desktop-sized pointer view, move over the section, and look in its upper-right corner.