When you have your own business you become familiar with invoices, and if you have been using the system for a while you might be used to the basis of how they work. You add your product or service, and the contact information, and they can pay for it.

However, what if you want to give them more flexibility while having control over the amounts you receive? Payments Plans are a great way to implement this. They allow you to accept smaller payments over time while the system keeps track of the transaction being completed on time.

Setting the Invoice

To send one go to the Invoices Tab in your Payments section and click on + New

Add the client, product, and business information as normal. You want to ensure you filled out the Due date for the invoice since you can't schedule payments on dates after the selected date.

Click on Add Payment Schedule, this will open up a window for you to set all the details of the payments.

Select between Percentage or Fixed Amount, and if the payment plan includes three or more payments click on Add Payment for more fields.

Set the amounts and dates for each payment. Please remember that the total has to equate to 100% for Percentage or the full cost of the product for Fixed Amount.

Click Add Schedule to save, you should see the payment schedule reflected in your invoice. 

After you're happy with the invoice click Send, select the channels to send it to, and click Send Invoice.

For the receiving client, the invoice will show them they have different payments to complete with due dates for each. And when they click on Pay they can either pay them one by one or add several to the Choose Payments bar.

And, there you go. Now you can use the Payments Plans invoice to move your mid and high-ticket items faster without having to worry about reminding the clients of the payment or keep items that require a deposit and later payment under the same invoice.

Important Notes:

• Before sending any Invoices make sure you have a payment gateway connected to collect online payment.
• Verify you've set the invoice's general due date properly before setting the individual payment due dates to avoid system errors.
• Unlike Recurring Template Invoices, auto-pay will not be processed for the different scheduled payments.