Automating your monthly billing cycle is a huge time-saver and ensures no charges are left behind.

If you're brand new to Habu, let's start things off with a 90 second intro video to give you an sense of how the auto-billing process works in Habu:

There are a variety of options available to you for automating your billing processes. You can keep things manual, have a mixed process, or go for full automation. To edit your billing automation options navigate to 'Settings' > 'Billing'. You'll see the automated billing options here:

You have four possibilities with billing automation:

Automatic Invoicing
When any of the three 'Automatic Invoice' options are activated, on the 1st of every month a single invoice will be created for each contact (that's both contacts and members with active subscriptions) that have any outstanding charges. This happens at 12:00 UTC.

The first automatic invoice will contain all previous charges whereas subsequent invoices will contain just the charges from the previous months' activity such as bookings, as well as next month membership fees.

After auto-invoicing is complete, you can then manually send out emails to your contacts and members using the drop-down menu you can find here:

Automatic Invoicing and Emails
Everything is the same as above, expect all contacts with freshly made invoices will be emailed the link to the invoice. These emails are sent out as soon as they are created.

Your contacts will receive an email similar to this:

When they select the 'View Invoice' they will be taken to an invoice that looks like this:

When payment has been taken, the invoice is marked as paid. Your members can then use this as a receipt for their records if they screenshot or save it.

Automatic Invoicing, Emails and Payment
With this option, invoices are automatically created and emailed to all contacts and members. If you have connected Habu to your Stripe account you can also take payments automatically from members who have active membership subscriptions.

Contacts who have an outstanding invoice but do not have an active membership subscription are not part of the monthly payment cycle.

To get an in-depth understanding of auto-payments you can read more here.

Later in 2019 we'll be upgrading our Xero integration as well as add 15+ more integrations with other leading accounting platforms. This upgrade will synch Habu invoices with Xero automatically. Until then you will need to send & synchronize each one.