How to Check if a Customer Viewed Your Invoice in QuickBooks Online

Have you ever wondered whether your customer received/opened/viewed an invoice you sent them through QuickBooks Online? 

In this blog post, I’ll show you two places you can go to check this.

Quick Instructions:

From Sales:

  1. Click Sales -> Invoices
  2. Find the invoice you want
  3. Click the drop-down arrow on the far right
  4. Click View activity

From within the invoice:

  1. Click Manage in the upper right
  2. Click the Status box
  3. Click Activity

Keep reading for a complete walkthrough with screenshots:

View Activity From Sales

The first place you can view this is within Sales.

Click Sales -> Invoices in the left side menu.

Navigating to invoices from the left side QBO menu

You can find the invoice you’re interested in by scrolling through the list and changing the status or date.

Once you find the invoice you want, click the drop-down arrow on the far right. Then click View activity.

View activity of an invoice from the Sales screen in QBO

This opens a pop-out that shows the date when the invoice was…

  • Opened
  • Sent
  • Viewed
  • Paid
  • Deposited

Viewing the activity of an invoice in QBO

View Activity Within Invoice

You can also view the activity from within an invoice.

To do this, click Manage in the upper right. Click the Status box, then Activity.

View invoice activity from within the invoice in QBO

This opens a pop-up similar to the one we saw in Sales, but it only shows the activity.

Viewing the activity of an invoice from within the invoice.

You now know two different ways to view the activity of your invoices in QuickBooks Online.

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