Recurring charges questions
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Doug
Mar 7, 2012, 2:50:59 PM3/7/12
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I'm setting up Recurring billing using the API and webhooks. The
basics are in place, but I'm confused by a few things, mostly around
what will happen on a recurring billing cycle.
The docs say:
"Don’t forget to empty the recurring profile at the start of a billing
period. You can either set a scheduled event (e.g. a cron job) on your
own server to do this, or you can be notified when each invoice is
created and empty the invoice then."
What does that mean? How do I "empty" a profile?. Delete it? And I
have to do this before the new invoice will be issued? Confused....
Also, are there any suggestions for how to test this process? It looks
like the shortest period I can create is 1 week, so I have to create a
test invoice and wait a week to get the 1st recurring call to verify
it works? Anyway to make a test recur in say 5 minutes so I can
reasonably do the develpment and test?
basics are in place, but I'm confused by a few things, mostly around
what will happen on a recurring billing cycle.
The docs say:
"Don’t forget to empty the recurring profile at the start of a billing
period. You can either set a scheduled event (e.g. a cron job) on your
own server to do this, or you can be notified when each invoice is
created and empty the invoice then."
What does that mean? How do I "empty" a profile?. Delete it? And I
have to do this before the new invoice will be issued? Confused....
Also, are there any suggestions for how to test this process? It looks
like the shortest period I can create is 1 week, so I have to create a
test invoice and wait a week to get the 1st recurring call to verify
it works? Anyway to make a test recur in say 5 minutes so I can
reasonably do the develpment and test?
Fresh Marcos
Mar 9, 2012, 10:02:07 AM3/9/12
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Hey Doug,
I've seen that you have posted the same question on our forums, and Steve has replied to it. So if anyone else is also confused by the text mentioned by Dough please read Steve's reply at: http://community.freshbooks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9532.
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