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<title>Billing</title>
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<h1>Billing</h1>
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<li>You can bill individual customers by clicking on the <i>Bill now</i> link on the main customer view.
<li>The <a href="man/bin/freeside-daily.html"><b>freeside-daily</b></a> script should be run daily to bill customers and run invoice collection events.
<li>Real-time credit card processing: Install the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Business%3A%3AOnlinePayment">Business::OnlinePayment</a> module for your processor. Configure the <a href="../config/config-view.cgi#business-onlinepayment">business-onlinepayment</a> configuration option. Disable the default <b>Batch card</b> <a href="../browse/part_bill_event.cgi">invoice event</a> and add one for Business::OnlinePayment.
<li>Optional: Invoice template customization
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<li>See the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/MJD/Text-Template-1.42/Template.pm">Text::Template</a> documentation for details on the substitution language.
<li>You <b>must</b> call the invoice_lines() function at least once - pass it a number of lines, and it returns a list of array references, each of two elements: a service description column, and a price column.
<li>In addition, the following variables are available:
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<li>$invnum - invoice number
<li>$date - as a UNIX timestamp (see <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/GBARR/TimeDate-1.09/lib/Date/Format.pm">Date::Format</a> for conversion functions).
<li>$page - current page
<li>$total_pages - total pages
<li>@address - A six-element array containing the customer name, company, and address.
<li>$overdue - true if this invoice is overdue
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<li>Batch credit card processing
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<li>After <a href="man/bin/freeside-daily.html"><b>freeside-daily</b></a> is run, a credit card batch will be in the <a href="schema.html#cust_pay_batch">cust_pay_batch</a> table. Export this table to your credit card batching.
<li>When your batch completes, erase the cust_pay_batch records in that batch and add any necessary paymants to the <a href="schema.html#cust_pay">cust_pay</a> table. Example code to add payments is:
<pre>use FS::cust_pay;
# loop over all records in batch
my $payment=create FS::cust_pay (
'invnum' => $invnum,
'paid' => $paid,
'_date' => $_date,
'payby' => $payby,
'payinfo' => $payinfo,
'paybatch' => $paybatch,
);
my $error=$payment->insert;
if ( $error ) {
#process error
}
# end loop
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All fields except paybatch are contained in the cust_pay_batch table. You can use paybatch field to track particular batches and/or particular transactions within a batch.
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<li>The <a href="man/bin/freeside-print-batch.html"><b>freeside-print-batch</b></a> script can print or email pending credit card batches for manual entry.
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