It’s right here! Our most hotly requested characteristic because the launch of WPMU DEV Internet hosting. A full-scale, automated, and free billing system for you and your shoppers.
Invoicing shoppers is the perfect (getting paid) and the worst (nightmare) a part of working an online development enterprise.
Managing overdue invoices, ensuring month-to-month charges are paid, hassling clients, and manually managing and reconciling all of it.
Which is why, while you requested us to assist with that, we have been all ears and set to work.
So, right this moment, I’d wish to formally introduce Consumer Billing, included free of charge, with no charges, together with your WPMU DEV membership. 🙂
And it’s prepared so that you can use, RIGHT NOW.
Simply go to The Hub, click on on Consumer Billing, join your Stripe account (when you haven’t obtained one already, you need to get one, they’re wonderful) and you’re able to go.
Eager to know *why* you need to instantly change the way you invoice your shoppers, proper now? Nicely then, learn on, or click on on a hyperlink under to leap to that part (finest to learn all of it…you don’t need to miss out!) …
- Automated Subscriptions
- Consumer Administration
- Branded Invoices and Emails
- Fully White Label
- Consumer-Pleasant Consumer Portal
- Offline Funds, Refunds, Taxes, A number of Currencies, and Extra
- Clean, Seamless, and Safe Checkout
- Complete Documentation and Help
- Free to Members
Automated Subscriptions
Some of the stunning issues on this planet are subscriptions. Nicely, so long as you’re the particular person charging them. 😉
A vital focus of our new billing system is that it permits you to simply arrange, handle, and luxuriate in the advantages of subscriptions, all out of your hub.
Not solely are you able to handle all points of all subscriptions, however you may as well monitor your month-to-month recurring income (MRR) from one simple dashboard.
Consumer Administration Instruments (Finally a full-blown CRM)
Think about having the whole lot you could handle shoppers, invoices, and subscriptions, in a single place.
That’s what you get with consumer billing, plus there’s much more now we have deliberate for the long run. And ultimately we think about this to be a full-blown CRM that rivals the perfect on the net.
However as of proper now, you may have a ton of fantastic and versatile consumer administration instruments at your disposal, together with customized fields for shoppers, which permit our members (i.e. you) to create your individual private and non-private fields underneath consumer profiles the place you may add fields to maintain personal notes about shoppers or add particulars reminiscent of VAT quantity, or alternate consumer contact numbers. This is step one in direction of the CRM.
Add / invite shoppers, view and edit contact particulars, billing historical past, account standing, subscriptions, and extra – all from one dashboard. Straightforward!
Branded Invoices & Emails
It’s vital to dress-to-impress on the subject of your front-facing emails and invoices.
Fortunate for you, all CB invoices and emails come loaded on skilled and glossy templates (extra coming quickly!)
Templates you may customise to incorporate your branding, brand, colours, and different useful additions.
Take a look at what the white labeled emails appear like.
We additionally plan so as to add extra e mail and bill templates, and provide additional customization sooner or later, so watch this house!
Fully White Label
Consumer Billing can also be constructed proper into The Hub Consumer which implies that, when you select, your shoppers NEVER want to listen to about WPMU DEV, ever.
From the already talked about white label emails, to branding to your individual, full Hub expertise (on as many various websites and with as many various manufacturers as you want).
Each a part of Consumer Billing (and, in fact, The Hub Consumer) has been set as much as can help you present an entire white label setting and we’ll be persevering with to make this expertise even higher for you going ahead (extra customizations, higher customized designs).
Consumer-Pleasant Consumer Portal
Yeah, complete billing and administration options are nice and all… however what in regards to the consumer aspect of issues??
Don’t fear, we haven’t forgotten them.
In reality, we’ve gone all out to make it tremendous simple for them to pay you on time, each time.
All of it goes down in your individual devoted consumer portal, which you’ll select to fully-white label (utilizing The Hub Consumer), or use as regular.
Right here your shoppers will pay invoices utilizing an excellent safe and straightforward Stripe checkout (we don’t retailer delicate consumer data reminiscent of bank card particulars).
As soon as your shoppers approve the primary fee of a subscription/recurring bill, they’ll then be auto-charged from subsequent invoices of that subscription, so they won’t must authorize funds each month, and extra importantly for you.… NO MORE LATE PAYMENTS!
Lastly, you may permit shoppers to edit their billing particulars and fee technique, and provides them managed entry to internet hosting, websites, analytics, and extra. Relying on what sort of enterprise you’re working.
…Hmmm what else have I missed… Oh sure!
Offline Funds, Refunds, Taxes, A number of Currencies, and Extra
Together with the top-draw options, we’ve additionally packed a complete bunch of different time-saving and handy choices into Consumer Billing to make your billing life as simple as doable.
Useful options like:
Accepting offline funds – in case your consumer prefers to pay you by way of money, cheque or another technique, you may nonetheless use Consumer Billing. It’s as simple as marking an bill as paid with the fee notes…and we’ll steadiness the books for you thru Stripe.
Refunds – Refund invoices proper from the billing interface. Purchasers can even request refunds from their consumer portal (coming quickly).
Setting taxes – Set your individual tax charges and add a number of taxes to your invoices.
Selecting foreign money – Set invoices and billing to your chosen foreign money (Stripe at the moment helps round 135+ completely different currencies). Word: After you have set your chosen foreign money, your whole billing will likely be processed in that foreign money (we don’t assist multi-currency funds but!).
Clean, Seamless, and Safe Checkout
While you tie all of it collectively, your shoppers get a clean and seamless checkout expertise, beginning with an e mail bill branded together with your brand and coloration with a button they will click on on to make fee.
Clicking on the Pay Bill button takes them to an itemized listing of all of the services included in your bill.
The checkout course of is clean, seamless, and safe. Your shoppers could make funds for one-off companies, or begin a subscription with out leaving your web site utilizing Stripe’s built-in fee processes.
After profitable fee, your shoppers are instantly taken to a display the place they will view their full order particulars and obtain a replica of their paid bill.
Your bill is now paid and the cash’s on its approach…all seamlessly automated!
Complete Documentation and Help
You know the way new dad and mom typically complain there’s no good information on how one can increase their youngsters? Nicely, this child comes with a hefty handbook!
We offer in-depth step-by-step documentation masking each facet of establishing consumer billing for your small business, plus examine our weblog for tutorials on how one can develop your small business utilizing consumer billing to receives a commission robotically to your companies and generate month-to-month recurring income (MRR) reselling our internet hosting companies.
And if that’s not sufficient, you even have assist throughout with 24/7 entry to our knowledgeable assist workforce and our vibrant and energetic member group and boards.
Price Free And Included with Each Membership
If WordPress is free as in beer, WPMU DEV’s Consumer Billing is free as in lunch.
As a WPMU DEV Full Member we won’t cost you something, by any means, to make use of this service.
You don’t have to pay a charge to have entry to it, you simply obtained it free of charge.
And in contrast to just about each different billing supplier on the market, we don’t even cost a share of any transaction.
You fairly actually get this included, free of charge in your WPMU DEV membership.
Coming Quickly To Consumer Billing…
We have now solely simply opened the door to what’s coming within the weeks and months forward for Consumer Billing.
Some extra goodies you may count on we’ll be including quickly to the delectable buffet of Consumer Billing options embody:
- Automated area buying with subscriptions.
- Automated internet hosting deployment (with custom-made templates!)… additionally with subscriptions.
- 2022 investigation into including additional fee gateways along with Stripe.
- Different options which are additionally within the pipeline (we’ll preserve you posted on these!)
Assist Make Our Consumer Billing Beta Higher…and Get Paid Whereas Doing It!
Consumer Billing is at the moment in Beta nevertheless it’s stay and totally useful, so we invite you to begin utilizing it right this moment, tell us the way it’s working for you, and the way we will enhance it to assist take your small business to the following degree.
If in case you have any questions, take a look at our Consumer Billing documentation, check with our weblog, or contact our 24/7 assist workforce.