We would like our customers to be able to add items to their account that will be billed annually based on when they added them.
For example a customer licenses Widget A in January and is billed the fee for the next year. They then license another copy of Widget A in March.
How can we setup CheddarGetter to automatically bill the customer annually for each of the licenses at the right time?
#1 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 10 Aug, 2012 02:47 PM
Hi Charlie -- It looks like your plans are setup to bill monthly. Your annual license stuff sounds like something you want to do in parallel with a monthly subscription. If my assumptions are correct, then I suggest that you use a custom charge for the annual license(s). When payment is due, add a custom charge to the current invoice. It will be settled when that invoice runs. If you want to charge them immediately for the license, you can use a one-time invoice instead. Then, when a year passes, add another charge or execute another one-time invoice at that time. You could use the transaction webhook to trigger your application to examine a customer's account to see if it's time to charge for a new license.
#2 Posted by Charles Brook on 10 Aug, 2012 03:22 PM
Thanks Marc, that makes sense :-)
Charles Brook closed this discussion on 10 Aug, 2012 03:24 PM.