7 <li>To enable billing, you <b>must</b> create an <a href="config.html#invoice_template">invoice_template</a> configuration file. An example file is available in the <i>conf/</i> directory of the distribution. You also need to create an <a href="config.html#lpr">lpr</a> configuration file to enable postal invoices.
9 <li>Optional: Invoice template customization
11 <li>See the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/MJD/Text-Template-1.23/Template.pm">Text::Template</a> documentation for details on the substitution language.
12 <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.
13 <li>In addition, the following variables are available:
15 <li>$invnum - invoice number
16 <li>$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).
17 <li>$page - current page
18 <li>$total_pages - total pages
19 <li>@address - A six-element array containing the customer name, company, and address.
20 <li>$overdue - true if this invoice is overdue
24 <li>You can bill individual customers by clicking on the <i>Bill now</i> link on the main customer view.
25 <li> The <b>freeside-bill</b> script can be run daily to bill all customers. Usage:<pre>bill [ -c [ i ] ] [ -d <i>date</i> ] [ -b ] <i>user</i></pre>
27 <li>-c: Turn on collecting (you probably want this).
28 <li>-i: Real-time billing (as opposed to bacth billing). Only relevant for credit cards.
29 <li>-d: Pretend it is <i>date</i> (parsed by <a href="http://search.cpan.org/doc/GBARR/TimeDate-1.09/lib/Date/Parse.pm">Date::Parse</a>)
32 <br><br>Batch credit card processing
34 <li>After this script 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.
35 <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:
36 <pre>use FS::cust_pay;
38 # loop over all records in batch
40 my $payment=create FS::cust_pay (
45 'payinfo' => $payinfo,
46 'paybatch' => $paybatch,
49 my $error=$payment->insert;
56 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.<br><br>
57 <li>The <b>freeside-print-batch</b> script can print or email pending credit card batches for manual entry. Usage: freeside-print-batch [-v] [-p] [-e] [-a] [-d] <i>user</i>
59 <li>-v: Verbose - Prints records to STDOUT.
60 <li>-p: Print to printer lpr as found in the conf directory.
61 <li>-e: Email output to user found in the Conf email file.
62 <li>-a: Automatically pays all records in cust_pay_batch. Use -d with this option usually.
63 <li>-d: Delete - Pays account and deletes record from cust_pay_batch.