On-demand billing
Subscriptions can also be used as recurring payment agreements , if there is no automatic billing.
Examples:
a customer pays a bill and then signs up for automatic payment
a customer uses credits from some account (auto refill)
To use this functionality, a subscription plan with manual billing cycle must be used.
The plan can
either have zero amount
or it can have some fixed amount.
Invoices can
be created on-demand for the subscription with automatic handling like dunning management as if it was created by Billwerk+ Payments
be set to fail instantly, if it cannot be paid, allowing instant feedback on the success or failure.
When the customer signs-up for automatic payment a subscription is created for a manual plan. The subscription can be seen as a recurring payment agreement. When a bill is subsequently generated in the merchant system, it is created as an invoice in Billwerk+ and tjos os where you can handle potential dunning etc.
Using recurring payment agreements can be divided into a number of steps described below.