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How to Change Due Dates for Invoices?

  • November 6, 2024
  • 2 replies
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Tori Bilas

I’m having trouble with the split payments function on invoices. I require 50% paid up front for custom artwork and 50% upon completion of the art, but I give a window of time and can’t really say exactly when a piece will be done, so I don’t choose a date for the second payment. I’ve had to revise the contract every time and I’d love to have a way to just have it due upon completion then somehow indicate to the system that it’s completed. I don’t love having to ask my clients to approve contract revisions simply to finish paying me. How would I do this?

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kitzzy
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  • HoneyBook Employee
  • November 14, 2024

Hi ​@Tori Bilas,

Kitzzy here from the Education team. Thanks for sharing your use case. You could do this by using the Project Date field as the delivery date for the custom art work and setting that as the data for the second payment in the invoice Payment Plan.

In the payment plan, I suggest the following:

  • 1st Payment - Choose invoice date for the due date.
  • 2nd Payment - Choose project date for the due date.

In the contract, you could say that payment is due upon delivery of the art work. In the project details tab, you can set the project date to anything you want, and in this case it makes sense to set it to the expected delivery date. If you change this date later, it will update the due date in the invoice too.

Let me know if this helps solve for your use case.

Thanks,

Kitzzy

 


Tori Bilas
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  • November 18, 2024

Thank you so much! I just worry that even still I’d have to have the client “approve changes” to the contract, which I’m trying to avoid. Is that inevitable when I don’t have a set delivery date? I work faster usually than my standard due dates just to allow for buffers, so I don’t want to have to wait several weeks after delivery to issue the next invoice.