7 <li>Add one or more <a href="../browse/part_bill_event.cgi">Invoice events</a> implmenting your business rules for re-sending invoices, retrying cards, suspending, etc.
8 <li>You can bill individual customers by clicking on the <i>Bill now</i> link on the main customer view.
9 <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.
10 <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.
11 <li>Optional: Credit card expiration alerts: Customize <a href="../config/config.cgi#alerter_template">alerter_template</a> configuration option and run <a href="man/bin/freeside-expiration-alerter.html">freeside-expiration-alerter</a> daily.
12 <li>Credit card decline alerts: Customize the <a href="../config/config.cgi#declinetemplate">declinetemplate</a> configuration option and set the <a href="../config/config.cgi#emaildecline">emaildecline</a> configuration option.
13 <li>Typeset (LaTeX) invoice templates
15 <li>Install teTeX and Ghostscript (included with most distributions).
16 <li>Place your logo in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format at <code>/usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.<i>your_datasrc</i>/logo.eps</code>.
17 <li>Edit the <b>invoice_latexfooter</b>, <b>invoice_latexnotes</b>, and <b>invoice_latexsmallfooter</b> configuration files. If you are adventurous, edit <b>invoice_latex</b> as well.
19 <li>Plaintext invoice templates
21 <li>See the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mjd/Text-Template/lib/Text/Template.pm">Text::Template</a> documentation for details on the substitution language.
22 <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. Alternatively, call invoice_lines() with no arguments, and pagination will be disabled - all invoice line items will print on one page, with no padding (recommended for email invoices).
23 <li>In addition, the following variables are available:
25 <li>$invnum - invoice number
26 <li>$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).
27 <li>$page - current page
28 <li>$total_pages - total pages
29 <li>@address - A six-element array containing the customer name, company, and address.
30 <!-- <li>$overdue - true if this invoice is overdue -->
33 <!-- <li>Batch credit card processing
35 <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.
36 <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:
37 <pre>use FS::cust_pay;
39 # loop over all records in batch
41 my $payment=create FS::cust_pay (
46 'payinfo' => $payinfo,
47 'paybatch' => $paybatch,
50 my $error=$payment->insert;
57 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.
59 <!-- <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. -->