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Re: Importing customers (new subject)

From: Avi Freedman
Date: Friday, January 8, 1999
Time: 9:16:48 pm

> Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> >So, nu, what's the new import file format?
> >Or is the billing code field simply the last field in each line?
>
> Simple last field (I just added it to the end of the format, so the old
> format will still work fine).

Makes sense.

> >Yes, and/or make it show up on an e-mail invoice.
>
> Sort of... the thing is, is that it tries to bill the credit card for the
> balance due when the customer's expiration date comes up.

OOPS, that's the problem Boardtown had.

> What I guess someone could do to do what you are doing is the following:
>
> Set their billing cycle to whatever recurring charges you want to bill
> them each month (or how ever often you want), then set their Termination
> Date to whatever day you want it to stop billing them. Then it would
> basically create an invoice when their time came near for their
> back-payment, and then bill it. And continue that cycle until it hit
> their termination date.

Ah, this makes sense!
Create a backpayment account type with a future expiration date.

> >Also, I assume you can do e-invoices and paper invoices both for some
> >customers? (I should look at the docs for the answer to that question).
>
> Yep... you can specify the default invoice type and language on the
> Invoicing Preferences screen, but you can also override that setting on a
> per customer basis on the customer's invoice screen.

Thanks.

But you can do BOTH for some users, right?
Just checking; have to look at that in more detail now.

> - Shawn

Thanks,

Avi



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