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Invoices / Payment / Recurring

  • January 30, 2024
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Billie Hara Sharp

Question:  I am a photographer focusing mainly on headshots, events, and real estate. These all require different invoice/payment structures.  For real estate, I’m wanting to create an invoice (so I can log payments), but I don’t need the invoice sent to the client, as my clients pay automatically.   I have tried creating a draft invoice that never gets sent to the client so I can log the payment, but the payment doesn’t appear in my year-to-date totals. What am I missing?

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Diana The Finer Points
Luminary
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You need to send the invoice for it to be logged. You can always tell your client ahead of time and manually “mark it as paid” when the clients pay you outside of HB. This also sends them a receipt for their records as well 


Billie Hara Sharp

Thanks, Diana. I know I can send the invoice, but I don’t want to. I’m asking if there is a way around sending the invoice.


Diana The Finer Points
Luminary
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Not that I know of 


Cassie H of Premier Ops Spot
Community Legend
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Hey @Billie Hara Sharp , I frequently get double invoices from different coaching programs or memberships I’ve opted into. From the customer side, it’s a minor annoyance, but I delete or filter the emails out if I don’t want them. :) 


Monica R
HoneyBook Community Team
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  • HoneyBook Community Team
  • May 9, 2024

Hey @Billie Hara Sharp!

We actually do have a way where you can mark a payment in an invoice as paid (so you can track it for your bookkeeping) without having to send anything to your client! 

I’m sharing our help center article about this here so you can check out the step by step instructions :) 

I hope this helps!