Subscriptions and reminders

Subscriptions

A subscription issues the same invoice on a schedule: monthly, quarterly, annually. It knows the customer, the lines, the currency and when the next one is due.

Each issued invoice is an ordinary invoice — nothing about it is special because a schedule created it. It is approved, sent, paid and accounted for exactly like the rest.

Setting Decides
Period How often
Next issue When the next one goes out
Ends When it stops, or never
Lines What is charged

Payment reminders

Unpaid invoices are chased on a ladder you define: a friendly note after a few days, a firmer one later, a final notice.

Each step has its own mail template and its own delay. The ladder stops the moment payment is recorded — including payment matched automatically from a bank statement.

Check the ladder before switching it on

A reminder ladder sends mail to customers without anyone pressing a button. Read every step's wording and every delay first, and send yourself a test. It is the one agenda where a wrong template is embarrassing rather than merely wrong.

Payments

A payment can be recorded by hand or matched from a bank statement import. Matching uses the payment reference, and a matched payment settles the invoice, stops the reminders and lands in the trail.

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