Any way to record externally made payments?

[gpre...@womply.com]

Howdy,

Is there a way by which we can apply an "external charge" to an invoice in KillBill? For example, if someone mailed in a check or paid by cash, and we needed to manually apply that to their account, and preferably to a specific invoice.

Thanks.

-Greg

[zeroco...@gmail.com]

It seems possible:

http://docs.killbill.io/latest/faq.html#_what_are_the_types_of_payment_methods_supported

[stephane brossier]

Greg,

You can apply an external charge to a particular invoice by specifying the invoiceId in the json. However, we used to allow that on any invoice, regardless of its state, and we have changed the behavior to only allow that on DRAFT invoices -- as opposed to COMMITTED invoices. The rationale is that once an invoice has been committed, it can be seen by customers, payments may have occurred against the invoice, ... and so it makes sense to keep it immutable at this point.

Stéphane

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[gpre...@womply.com]

Stéphane,

Thanks for the response. Can you get a little more specific on which api I should use for this?

> when you receive the money, simply let Kill Bill know about it (either via our administrative UI or our APIs).

That's not a lot of detail to go off of, and the API has a ton of payment related endpoints/calls. If we can do it via KAUI, even better, but I wasn't able to discover anything there that looked relevant.

Thanks,

-Greg

On Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 9:03:57 AM UTC-7, stephane brossier wrote:
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> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 4:14 AM, <zeroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 22:02:49 UTC, gpre...@womply.com wrote:Howdy,
> Is there a way by which we can apply an "external charge" to an invoice in KillBill?  For example, if someone mailed in a check or paid by cash, and we needed to manually apply that to their account, and preferably to a specific invoice.
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[zeroco...@gmail.com]

I think it's this one:

http://killbill.io/api/#!/1.0kbinvoices/createExternalCharges 

[Greg Preston]

So, using KAUI we try to "Make Payment" and check the "external?" box like so

This leads to:
"Error while communicating with the Kill Bill server: Error 400: InvoicePaymentJson should not contain a paymentMethodId when this is an external payment"

I'm leaving the Payment Method box blank as pictured.

I was  able to modify the form params being sent with the request, and removed the paymentMethodId param, and that seems to have worked.

If we didn't have to edit the form params manually, I think this flow would solve our current need.   We've only got a handful we need to do, so we may end up manually editing each one.

-Greg

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[stephane brossier]

Greg,

Here is a pointer the api to create external charges. You can also find code examples -- e.g here on how to use it.

Also, the screen you were using on KAUI, is unrelated to creating external charges - it is about creating a payment.

Stéphane

[Greg Preston]

Sorry, I think I was unclear in my original post.  I'm trying to log an external payment, not an external charge.

For example, say we generate an invoice for someone, try to charge their card and it gets declined.  Then as a one-off solution they mail us a check and we cash it.

Now we need to record that payment via check someone within killbill so the system knows they've paid their invoice via some mechanism external to killbill.

If this was a commonly recurring thing for us, we might look into a new payments plugin to handle that payment type, but in reality we've only got a handful of these we want to record in the system.

-Greg

[stephane brossier]

Ah... ok, different then.

You need to use the following endpoint, example [here].

S.

[Greg Preston]

This looks like exactly what we need.  Thank you!

-Greg