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What Is a Debit Invoice?

A debit invoice captures any under-billed amounts from the prior month's reconciliation. Debits are almost always driven by approved overtime, bonuses, commissions, and similar variable items.

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Written by Steve Waters

A debit invoice is a separate invoice we issue when the actual amount paid out on your behalf was higher than what we billed on the subscription. It captures the under-billed amounts from the prior month's reconciliation.

In practice, debit invoices are almost always driven by ad-hoc and variance items billed in arrears:

  • Approved items — overtime, bonuses, commissions, financial assistance (approved by your team's direct manager via Outstaffer's approval workflow)

  • Auto-applied items — public holiday loading, penalty rates, night differentials (applied per local labour law)

The debit invoice is a single invoice per customer per month, grouped by charge type across all your employees. So if three employees each had a small variance on the same line item, those amounts appear as one combined line on the debit invoice. The per-employee breakdown is in the Payroll Reconciliation Report — the debit invoice itself notes "Refer to your payroll reconciliation report for [Month]" to direct you there.

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