Accounts Receivable | Recurring Invoices
Recurring billing that survives a price change mid-cycle.
Schedule recurring invoices monthly, quarterly or annually. Each cycle raises a fresh invoice with the sales tax treatment applied as at the network and by email where they are not. A price change, a pause or an upgrade landing mid-period is prorated rather than argued about. Payment follow-ups fire automatically if it goes unpaid past the due date.
What the system does
Capability, input, output.
| Capability | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Recurring schedule | Customer + frequency + duration + price | Cycle plan with auto-trigger |
| Fresh invoice per cycle | Recurring invoice + GSP | A new tax invoice each cycle, not a copy of the last one |
| Multi-channel delivery | Customer contact preferences | Delivered over the network or by email, with the receipt tracked |
| Escalation pricing | Annual escalation % | Auto-revised price on the schedule |
| Pause / resume | Customer hold flag | Cycle paused without losing the schedule |
| Follow-up integration | Unpaid invoice past due date | Tone-aware reminder cadence |
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Recurring schedule
- Input
- Customer + frequency + duration + price
- Output
- Cycle plan with auto-trigger
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Fresh invoice per cycle
- Input
- Recurring invoice + GSP
- Output
- A new tax invoice each cycle, not a copy of the last one
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Multi-channel delivery
- Input
- Customer contact preferences
- Output
- Delivered over the network or by email, with the receipt tracked
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Escalation pricing
- Input
- Annual escalation %
- Output
- Auto-revised price on the schedule
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Pause / resume
- Input
- Customer hold flag
- Output
- Cycle paused without losing the schedule
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Follow-up integration
- Input
- Unpaid invoice past due date
- Output
- Tone-aware reminder cadence
Compliance + integrations
Recurring billing, GST-correct every cycle.
Each cycle raises a genuinely new invoice, with the rating, the currency and the customer's belonging status re-applied from the master rather than inherited from the last one. It sounds pedantic until a customer restructures mid-year and every subsequent invoice quietly carries the old treatment.
Regulations we work within
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Rule 48(4) (e-Invoice)
A fresh tax invoice raised each cycle, rated from the current customer record.
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Section 31 + Rule 46
Mandatory invoice fields validated each cycle.
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Section 13(3), CGST Act
Time of supply for continuous supplies handled per the rule.
Connects to
- Email delivery Delivery per cycle
- Email Templated invoice delivery
- Email gateway Per-customer delivery preference
Recurring Invoices FAQ
What buyers ask.
What about annual price escalation?
Configurable per contract. Set the escalation % (or absolute amount), the trigger (anniversary date, FY start), and the cap. The system applies the new price from the next cycle and notifies the customer in the invoice itself.
A customer wants to pause for 2 cycles. How?
Pause flag at the customer or contract level with a resume date. The pause is captured in the audit trail. Cycles during the pause window are skipped; the schedule resumes on the configured date without losing the cadence.
Different recurring schedule per customer?
Yes. Each customer or contract has its own schedule, pricing, currency and delivery preference. Bulk-edit available for global changes; individual override for VIPs.
How does this play with subscription accounting under ASC 606?
Recurring invoices feed the deferred and accrued revenue accounting under ASC 606. Performance obligations are tracked at the line, revenue is recognised across the service period rather than at the invoice, and the deferred balance updates each cycle. The invoice date and the revenue date are different things, and keeping them separate is what stops an annual prepayment landing as one month's revenue.
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Taxability and Sourcing
What is taxable and which state the sale belongs to, decided at the invoice.
See Taxability and SourcingPayment Follow-ups
Automated reminders across email and call queues. Customer-history-aware tone.
See Payment Follow-upsCredit Management
Per-customer credit limits, utilisation tracking, exposure aging, on-hold logic at the SO step.
See Credit Management
Schedule one recurring invoice. Watch it run.
Connect one customer, set a monthly cycle, free. The first invoice raises on the cycle date, goes out on whichever path that customer is on, and the follow-up fires if it goes unpaid.