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As a Client, How Do I Pay My Invoices Automatically?

As a Client, if you're being billed for subscription-based services or products by a Business Owner, you can easily save your payment details so that you're automatically billed each time you're invoiced.
This is done via Recurring Payments in FreshBooks, and works together with Recurring Templates to automatically bill you every time an Invoice is generated and sent to you.
You can also remove your saved payment information if you want to opt out of Recurring Payments at any time. Read below on how to save, update and remove your payment information.
 
If the Business Owner entered the credit card details on your behalf, or if their business requires automatic payments, only they can remove the payment details themselves.
 

Save Your Payment Information

  1.  Open the Invoice from the email that was sent to you and click on the View Invoice button
    Email with view invoice button.
  2. Under the Recurring Payment section, leave the toggle enabled on if you want to automatically have all future recurring Invoices paid automatically
    Toggle to pay future invoices automatically above credit card form.
  3. Depending on what options are available on the Invoice, you can choose to either opt in with a Credit Card, a Bank Transfer (ACH) account, or with a PayPal account
  4. Enter the payment details as needed
  5. For Credit Cards or Bank Transfers (ACH), check off the box next to Save this credit card to an account with [Company Name] or Remember this bank account for future invoices from [Company Name] to save your payment details for re-use on any future Invoices
    Checkbox next to save this credit card.
  6. Click on the Pay $xx.xx button
  7. A confirmation page will appear and the payment will start processing.

Update Your Payment Information

  1. Open any Invoice that you received in the past from your email, or log into your Client Account if you've been saving your Invoices in FreshBooks
  2. On the Invoice that is automatically billing you - any saved payment information will appear here
  3. Click on the Update Credit Card, Update Bank Account, or Update PayPal Account link
    Update credit card link on saved card.
  4. Re-enter or select your new payment information and click on Save Card, Authorize Account or Done
  5. Your new details will be saved for future Recurring Payments
 

Remove Your Payment Information

 
If you don't see the trash can icon when hovering over your saved payment, this means the Business Owner entered the credit card details on your behalf, or their business requires automatic payments on these Invoices. Please reach out to the Business directly if you need the card removed.
 
  1. Open any invoice that you received in the past from your email, or log into your Client Account if you've been saving your Invoices in FreshBooks
  2. On the Invoice that is automatically billing you, any saved payment information will appear here. Hover over the Credit Card, Bank Account, or PayPal Account until you see a trash can icon appear next to it
    Trash can icon next to saved credit card.
  3. Click on the trash can icon
  4. Click on Remove Credit Card, Remove Bank Account, or Remove PayPal Account to confirm
  5. The Recurring Invoice will no longer automatically bill you again and will need to be paid manually each time by you now. If you've saved the card or bank account to your account, you'll still be able to use it to pay off new Invoices.
If you ever have any concerns about the safety of your payment information, you can review FreshBooks' Security and Reliability Safeguards here.

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