Configure to display payment sequences on invoices
This task explains how to configure HTML templates to display payment sequences on invoices, helping customers track billing periods for subscription-based products.
This article demonstrates how to display payment sequences on invoices.
Assume an occasion when you have a product called Quality of Experience, which is a subscription-based software license. This product contains a product rate plan, lasting for three years. Within the product rate plan, the product sets up a product rate plan charge priced at $500.20, recurring quarterly. Your customer A starts a three-year subscription to this product rate plan charge, and an invoice of $500.20 is generated for the subscription per quarter through three years. Such a charge brings your customer A to 12 invoices in total.
To allow your customer A to know for which billing period each invoice is generated, HTML templates provide the capability of displaying something like "1 of 12" or "3 of 12" as payment sequences of invoices. For example, if the invoice is the third invoice among the overall 12 invoices, the invoice displays "3 of 12", indicating 9 payments are left.
In this scenario, you can use the HTML component in the HTML template editor to build charge details tables and use the expressions to calculate the payment sequences.
To display payment sequences on invoices, perform the following steps:
The following image shows a charge details table displayed with payment sequences: