WPMU DEV’s Shopper Billing is ideal for creating and managing subscriptions, sending skilled invoices, and offering your shoppers with a chic white label portal the place they’ll pay and handle their accounts (and web sites, too).
This text covers the entire necessities of the best way to get probably the most out of Shopper Billing.
We’ll be going over:
1. Automating Your Shopper Billing and Administration
Automated Subscriptions
Billing Shoppers
Bill in a Click on
Observe Recurring Income
Including Your Model
Customizing Invoices
Personalised Emails
3. The White Labeled Shopper Portal
4. Managing Shoppers, Funds, and Income
Account Administration
Viewing and Modifying Shoppers
Offline Funds
Refunds
All the pieces we’ll be overlaying is accessible from the Shopper Billing tab situated within the HUB, the place there are a number of methods to entry it.
A technique is beneath the Shopper Billing tab, which is situated on the menu bar.
It’s rapidly accessible as soon as in The Hub.
You may as well simply entry Shopper Billing on individually hosted websites from The Hub Overview and the higher proper nook.
The selection is yours on the best way to entry Shopper Billing.
You’ll have to have an account with us to get began with Shopper Billing. In case you don’t have one, it’s easy to get began.
And with that, let’s start!
1. Automating Your Shopper Billing and Administration
As you’ll see, there are a number of methods to automate options in Shopper Billing. Automation is a good hands-off method to specializing in rising and operating your WordPress enterprise as an alternative of manually coping with monetary transactions and establishing paperwork.
We’ll contact on what you are able to do and provide you with a glimpse of the way it’s achieved!
Automated Subscriptions
Recurring funds are one of the simplest ways to “set it and overlook it” when billing prospects for companies or merchandise. It automates sending invoices, so that you don’t have to gather funds manually.
Subscriptions can embrace internet hosting, website upkeep, updates – no matter you’d like. Basically, something that will probably be recurring for your online business, you may automate the cost.
Get began with a brand new subscription by merely heading to the Merchandise & Companies space and clicking New Product.
It will get you began with a brand new subscription.
Create a Product Title, and it’s also possible to embrace a picture.
We’ll set this one as much as embrace a internet hosting service.
Give your services or products a Plan Title, Value, and Billing Sort (recurring or one-time).
For one-time funds – that’s it! No extra info is required.
With the recurring plan, you may add how typically to cost within the Invoice Each space (e.g. one month). Plus, add an acceptable billing cycle.
You’ll be able to select between days, weeks, months, and years for billing!
Duplicate a plan by clicking the ellipsis, and also you’re all set!
You’ll be able to duplicate a plan as many instances as you need. Delete the plan from right here, too.
As soon as your plan is added, you may connect it to any prospects you’ve gotten in your dashboard. The plan title may be tweaked and up to date at any time, too.
For extra on including recurring funds and subscriptions, take a look at our documentation.
Billing Shoppers
As shoppers get added to your Hub, you may immediately invoice them on a per-site foundation.
That is the way you rapidly ship an bill for a consumer; whether or not you created new options to their WordPress website, added some new safety features to their present website, or regardless of the purpose for billing is – to invoice a consumer is as environment friendly as ever.
It’s all achieved by clicking on Invoice Shopper within the higher proper nook.
The Invoice Shopper button is situated in a number of areas all through Shopper Billing.
Immediately invoice a consumer by pulling them from the Shopper dropdown. And if you need, select a web site that they’re related to.
Your whole shoppers are situated right here.
Select a services or products you need to invoice for. The amount and the quantity will probably be displayed. Plus, add as many services as you’d like. Additionally, you may embrace tax and specify what it’s for and the speed.
For this instance, it’s $25 a month for a internet hosting plan.
From right here, you may…
Bill in a Click on
As soon as your info is entered, you may take a look at your bill and ship it in a single click on by tapping Ship Bill. Moreover, embrace a customized message to it in the event you’d like.
Put it aside as a draft, preview, or you may ship the bill if prepared.
Wish to see what the bill seems to be like earlier than sending it? That’s no downside. Simply click on Preview, and also you’ll get a PDF you can view or obtain.
All the pieces wanting as much as par? You’re able to ship it to your consumer! Or, return and edit something.
As soon as despatched, having your shoppers pay is simple as ever. Your consumer will obtain an e-mail to pay it on-line straight of their consumer portal (which we’ll get into afterward on this article).
Monitor your invoices and see what’s paid, what’s not, and any drafts you’ve gotten on the consumer’s web page beneath Invoices.
The most recent one on high states Fee Due.
As you may see, it takes just some seconds to get an bill prepared and despatched if you put all of it collectively.
And like that…your bill is on its manner!
You’ll be able to learn extra about billing a consumer per website in our documentation.
Observe Recurring Income
Shopper Administration routinely tracks recurring income, so that you don’t miss a beat relating to figuring out your earnings.
There are a number of methods to do that. For starters, to get a fast glimpse at your Month-to-month Recurring Income (MRR), merely test it out from the Shopper Billing Overview within the Income space. Right here, it’ll provide the whole quantity of what you’re bringing in month-to-month.
You may as well see the variety of energetic subscriptions.
Check out what particular person shoppers’ MRR is by going to their profile and viewing their Overview. Within the Billing Stats, you may see how a lot MMR that individual consumer is bringing in.
This consumer is bringing in $90 in MRR.
See intimately what precisely is bringing within the earnings. Merely click on on Merchandise & Companies. From right here, you may view Present Subscriptions, One Time (funds), and Inactive Subscriptions.
It’ll additionally point out if something is Previous Due and what’s Energetic. Moreover, you’ll see the quantity it’s bringing in, the Variety of Merchandise, the Web site it’s for, and the Subsequent Renewal date.
Uh-oh. The pink signifies that certainly one of these subscriptions is late.
Anytime a brand new subscription is added, it would routinely embrace it to Shopper Billing – within the Overview and on particular person shoppers’ profiles.
2. Branded Invoices and Emails
Protecting your model look, design, and knowledge constant all through your billing is important. It makes it clear that you just’re established {and professional}. Fortunately, Shopper Billing has a one-setup manner of going about it.
All of that is achieved from the Configurations part.
Including Your Model
Embody your model and firm info for invoices and emails in just some steps. Go to Enterprise Profile to begin issues off.
Get on to your Enterprise Profile from the Shopper Billing Overview.
Start by including your organization emblem within the Branding space.
On this instance, we added a WPMU DEV emblem.
Jazz issues up a notch by together with a Model Coloration. You should utilize the colour picker or enter a coloration code.
What coloration matches your organization finest?
Embody all of the Enterprise Information you’d like, together with your title, e-mail, web site, contact quantity, and extra.
Put in all of the outstanding info wanted.
As soon as saved, all of this info may be included on invoices and emails. You’ll be able to return in at any time to make edits as wanted.
Customizing Invoices
Customizing your invoices provides credibility and professionalism to your online business – and makes you stand out. It additionally helps you get acknowledged simpler and paid faster because you’ll grow to be a well-recognized model.
And you are able to do this rapidly and simply by going to Customise Invoices.
Customization is a click on away!
Select the Bill Quantity Format you’d like to make use of. From right here, it would construction and quantity your invoices going ahead.
Create a prefix that fits you properly.
Wish to add a customized message to your bill? Or extra enterprise info or a useful memo? Achieve this with the Bill Footer Be aware.
Embody any message you’d wish to it.
Select particular Bill Fields to make use of in your invoices.
Choose all that you just need to embrace.
Preview the bill to get a pleasant concept of what it would appear to be on your shoppers.
Wanting good!
And identical to that, your invoices are able to be carried out all through your complete group!
Personalised Emails
Like with invoices, customized emails let your shoppers know you imply enterprise. It’s one other alternative for them to grow to be aware of your model.
That is easy to do from the E mail Notifications part.
That is the place you begin to make your e-mail stand out.
From right here, one click on will embrace your branding into your emails! Simply flip the swap in Enterprise Branding, and it’ll add your emblem and coloration.
One-click is all it takes.
Embody an Emails Footer Be aware as properly. It will seem on the backside of your e-mail.
Embody any message you’d like.
For e-mail examples and a extra in-depth look, be sure you take a look at our documentation.
3. White Label Shopper Portal
Your consumer’s billing expertise is totally branded together with your content material of their Shopper Portal. Shopper’s can login to their Hub to pay payments, view orders, edit their info, and extra!
Right here’s a rundown of a few of the necessities to get probably the most out of your consumer’s expertise.
Shopper Login
The consumer has their very own space in your Hub to log in to view their profile, together with very important details about their billing (e.g. orders, payments, and many others.). It offers an incredible buyer expertise and makes it straightforward for them to handle their billing on their finish.
That is achieved with the assistance of the Hub Shopper plugin (which we’ll get into subsequent).
From The Hub
Invite a brand new consumer to be added to your Hub by coming into their info beneath the Shopper tab and New Shopper.
Click on the button and also you’re all set.
From right here, you enter their info. (Please be aware you can additionally import shoppers from Stripe. Info on how to try this may be discovered right here.)
You choose what roles the consumer may have. For instance, you may let the View All & Entry Billing, Entry Billing Solely, and extra – together with including customized consumer roles.
What consumer position would you like your consumer to have?
There’s additionally a Hub dropdown, the place you choose what Hub you need the consumer to entry.
All set with their Person Position and what Hub they’ll be utilizing? Click on the tab to Invite Shopper, and tab Add – and also you’re all set. Your new consumer will get a login invitation. Extra info on setting this up is present in our documentation.
Your consumer can then open the e-mail and arrange a username and password by clicking Affirm Info. This e-mail accommodates all of the branded info we coated earlier on this article, plus the Shopper’s title (or enterprise).
You’ll be able to see beneath the place your info will probably be included.
Your whole private info that you just need to embrace will probably be within the e-mail invitation.
The consumer will probably be taken to a subject the place their e-mail tackle is prepopulated. They simply create a password, and that’s it! Additionally, in the event that they’re a present WPMU DEV member, they’ll be despatched to their already established account however with entry to Shopper Billing.
Right here’s an instance of the login space on your new consumer.
Let’s amp issues up a bit and take a look at what the login is like for a consumer…
With the Hub Shopper Plugin
For the final word white-label expertise, you’ll want the Hub Shopper plugin, which is designed to supply your shoppers with a wholly white-labeled WPMU DEV expertise in your area.
The Hub Shopper plugin provides an much more white-labeled expertise – all in your website.
You’ll be able to fully white label The Hub, run in your website, invoice and handle shoppers, and management customers’ entry ranges.
As soon as activated in your website, you’re capable of embrace customized logos, colours, and extra.
There are much more configurations than what’s proven above!
Your consumer will log in to their portal, which incorporates nothing however your branding. On this instance beneath, we’ve added Dev Man…
The login is yours to make nevertheless you need the shoppers to see it.
You’ll be able to all the time get again into the Hub Shopper dashboard and make adjustments at any time. Learn all about implementing and utilizing the Hub Shopper Plugin in our documentation.
Shopper Funds
Now that your consumer has entry, it’s fast and straightforward for them to view and pay invoices. This makes the method streamlined, easy, and handy on your consumer – and also you.
When a consumer logs in, they’ll simply view their Billing Particulars. That is an summary of every thing, together with their Month-to-month Recurring Invoice, Energetic Subscriptions, Billing Information, and extra.
It’s an entire overview of what the consumer is being billed for.
Your consumer can do a ton from right here. This consists of altering or including info, akin to billing tackle, cost methodology, and e-mail tackle.
Plus, it would instantly point out if a cost is due with a quantity circled in pink subsequent to the Invoices tab.
There’s one cost due on this instance.
The Bill tab is the place shoppers will pay their bill, plus it reveals what’s been paid already (indicated in inexperienced).
As you may see, as soon as cost is paid, and one other one is due.
When clicking a particular bill, the consumer can view, pay, or obtain a PDF of it.
On this case, $25 is due for website upkeep.
When your consumer hits the Make Fee button, it would give them a Billing Abstract of what they’re paying for after which an space for them to enter their cost info.
$25 will get this subscription began.
The bill is processed, and also you’ll get a notification in your finish that it was paid.
4. Handle Shoppers, Funds, and Income
Shopper Billing has all of the necessities to handle shoppers, funds, and income. Plus, your shoppers get the identical therapy on their finish, the place they’ll view and pay invoices, edit their account info, and extra.
Let’s get proper into the gist of what all you are able to do, beginning with…
Account Managment
Account Administration is for you and the consumer to know what your billing seems to be like, handle subscriptions/purchases, and replace info. There’s lots that you just each can do.
Your consumer can handle their accounts all on this portal. As we went over, they’ll add their info and consider and pay invoices. Shoppers may Change Passwords, arrange Two Issue Authentication, and View profiles from their icon whereas logged in.
That is the view the consumer has.
They’ll additionally view their Merchandise & Companies. This reveals energetic subscriptions, the variety of merchandise, the subsequent renewal date, and when the acquisition was created. Plus, they’re capable of view Present Subscription, One Time, and Inactive Subscription from the tabs.
Clicking on a tab reveals simply these outcomes.
Your consumer may even Request to Cancel an energetic subscription by clicking on the ellipsis subsequent to it.
From the ellipsis, they’ll additionally view subscriptions and invoices.
That’s a glimpse at administration from the consumer’s aspect; let’s check out what you’re able to doing in your finish.
Viewing and Modifying Shoppers
Pulling up your roster of shoppers is fast and straightforward to entry and handle. All of that is achieved from the Shoppers tab.
From right here, you may pull up particular person shoppers, view Account Statuses, add New Shoppers, get your MRR, and see your Web Billing. Plus, as you’ll see, rather more.
All of the shoppers are in a single space.
As we mentioned a bit in the past, you may add a New Shopper with a click on.
One-click is all it takes!
Additionally, assign or change roles for every consumer beneath the Roles tab.
Set the default position right here, too.
Even create your individual customized roles! Simply give it a reputation and click on what you’d just like the position to have entry to.
Click on no matter roles you’d like to incorporate.
To get into extra particular particulars of every consumer, you may click on on them individually and handle the consumer in many alternative methods with the consumer’s Overview.
The Overview options Billing Stats (e.g. MRR, Energetic Subscriptions, Web Billing, and many others.) and details about your consumer.
You’ll be able to change the Main Hub from right here, Person position, and edit needed info (e.g. Contact Quantity, Title, and many others.).
There’s plenty of details about the consumer – all on one web page.
View what subscriptions your consumer has and what they’ve bought beneath Merchandise & Companies. You’ll see what’s energetic, the amount of cash being introduced in, pending, subsequent renewal, web sites, and extra.
Identical to on the client-side, you may see Present Subscriptions, OneTime, and Inactive Subscriptions.
It additionally reveals when a services or products was bought.
From the Invoices tab, you may see what invoices are due, what’s been paid, the quantity, and the bill quantity.
Want to search out an bill? You’ll be able to seek for one by typing within the quantity, too.
Clicking on the person bill will pull it up. You’ll be able to view the bill intimately, add notes, get consumer info, resend it to the consumer, and extra.
Offline Funds
Mark as Paid if, for instance, your consumer mails you a test as an alternative of paying on-line. In any case, not each consumer may need to pay via the consumer portal.
That is all achieved from the ellipsis beneath particular person invoices.
Click on to mark this bill paid.
You may as well do that from the ellipsis within the detailed invoices…
Not each consumer might pay on-line, so it’s important to mark an bill paid in the event you get a test or different cost methodology.
As soon as clicking, you may select a cost methodology, cost date, add a reference quantity, and even ship a receipt to the consumer.
As soon as marked as paid, it would not present Previous Due in your Hub.
And identical to that, it would mark it as paid.
Refunds
Refunds occur, and you may rapidly concern a refund for any services or products. As soon as cost has been made, you may give a refund, and it’ll go straight again to the cost methodology the consumer used.
It’s all achieved straight from the ellipsis dropdown.
You’ll be able to concern a full refund in a snap.
For extra details about issuing refunds, please learn our documentation.
WordPress Website Administration Made Easy
As you may see, account administration is streamlined, straightforward, and extra handy than ever due to Shopper Billing! Quite a lot of it’s automated for you, and all of the instruments are right here to maintain you and your shoppers organized. Plus, with the power to white label every thing and simplify the cost course of, your online business is multi function place.
To get a really feel for seeing Shopper Billing in motion, take a look at our instance. This text takes you thru your entire journey, utilizing WPMU DEV and Shopper Billing. And for an in depth take a look at every thing you are able to do with Shopper Billing, be sure you learn our documentation.
Moreover, there’s much more on the way in which with consumer billing, together with automated area buying, different cost gateways, and extra (that we’ll hold you posted on)!
For website administration made easy, there’s nothing as fulfilling as our Shopper Billing! Give it a attempt as we speak.
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