Online company files only Get money in your pocket faster by automatically notifying your customers to pay their invoices. There are two ways to gently prod your customers in AccountRight – invoice reminders and unpaid invoice summaries. You can turn reminders on for all customers then deselect a few by visiting the individual card files of certain people. Or, to turn on reminders for a few people, just enable the feature and select individual customers by visiting their card file. Before you can send reminders, your company file needs to be online and set up to send emails from AccountRight. Once you've set this up, you can automatically send reminders to your customers by following the steps belowIf you email directly from AccountRight, this is a great way to gently remind your customer to pay you. You can also set up unpaid invoice summaries to send your customers a monthly summary of unpaid invoices. We'll show you how to set up invoice reminders for all or selected customers, and how to customise the reminder frequency. Also, find out what invoice reminders will look like to your customers. UI Expand |
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title | To turn reminders on or off Set up invoice reminders for all customers |
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| To turn reminders on or off Set up invoice reminders for all customersTurn on invoice reminders for all of your customers. Here's how: - Go In your online company file, go to the Sales command centre and click Invoice Reminders. Alternatively, go to the Setup menu and choose Preferences.Click the > Preferences > Emailing tab .Click > Invoice Reminders. The Invoice Reminders window appears.
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| Invoice Reminders button greyed out? This means your company file isn't online or you haven't set up AccountRight to send emails. See Set up AccountRight to send emails. |
Select the option Send invoice remindersand Send unpaid invoice summary. Select the option All Send to all customersunder each. Image Added - Click the X in the top-right corner to close the Invoice Reminders window.
Now invoice reminders will be automatically sent to all customers who have been emailed invoices. If you don't want to sent send reminders to certain people, you can turn off reminders for them specifically by visiting their contact customer cards. To turn off invoice reminders for all customers, repeat these steps and deselect the option Send invoice reminders. |
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| To turn reminders on or off for a selection of Set up invoice reminders for specific customers |
| Set up invoice reminders for selected customersYou can choose to send invoice reminders to a select group specific customers. First, you'll need to enable the reminders feature by following the steps below. Then, you'll need to turn on reminders in the individual card files of your customers. Go to the Setup menu and choose Preferences. Click the Emailing tab.Click your customer cards. - In your online company file, go to the Sales command centre and click Invoice Reminders. Alternatively, go to the Setup menu > Preferences > Emailing tab > Invoice Reminders. The Invoice Reminders window appears.
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| Invoice Reminders button greyed out? This indicates that your file is not online or you haven't set up AccountRight to send emails. See Set up AccountRight to send emails. |
Select the option Send invoice remindersand Send unpaid invoice summary. Select the option Select customers under each of the above Send to specific customers. Image Added - Click the X in the top-right corner to close the Invoice Reminders window.
Once you've completed these steps you'll need to visit the card files of the individual customers you want to send reminders to.
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title | To turn reminders and invoice summaries on or off Set up invoice reminders for a single customer |
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| To turn reminders on or off Set up invoice reminders for a single customer- Go to the Card File command centre and click Cards List.
- Click the Customers tab.
- Click the zoom arrow to open the customer's card.
- Click the Selling Details tab.
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| Invoice Reminders button greyed out? This means your company file isn't online or you haven't set up AccountRight to send emails. See Set up AccountRight to send emails. |
- Select the option Send invoice reminders to this customer and Send unpaid invoice summary to this customer.
- Click the X in the top-right corner to close the Invoice Reminders window.
- Click OK to save your changes.
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How do invoice reminders look to your customers?When you enable invoice reminders, your customer will receive an email reminder: - 3 days before the invoice due date
- 1 day after the due date, and
- 1 fortnight after the due date
Here's what these emails will look like: Image Removed How does the summary of unpaid invoices look to customers?Your customers will receive an email that will give them access to their list of unpaid, online invoices. Once they open this list, they'll be able to see how long their payments are overdue and pay them on the spot. Image Removed UI Expand |
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| Customise your remindersYou can have up to 5 different reminders—each set up to send at different times and containing different email messages. This means you can nudge your customers as frequently and as gently as you choose. You can customise your reminders from the Invoice Reminders window (Sales > Invoice Reminders or Setup menu > Preferences > Emailing tab > Invoice Reminders). Image Added Image Added — change a reminder Image Added — delete a reminder + Add reminder — set up a new reminder (maximum of 5). UI Text Box |
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| Remember—changes to a reminder apply to all customers who receive reminders. |
Customise your reminder frequencyWhen changing or adding a reminder, choose how many days before or after your invoice due date to send the reminder. Image Added Customise your reminder emailsTailor your reminder emails with tags. Tags retrieve information from each invoice, so you can create a general message that will be populated with specific information for each customer. Available tags are listed on the right of the New reminder window. So in our example, the tags [TRADING_NAME] and [CUSTOMER_NAME] appear in square brackets when setting up the reminder. But these will show your company's name and the customer's name in reminder email. Image Added This means each customer will receive an email with information relevant to them. All you need to do is write your email subject and message, click where you want a tag to appear, then click a tag to add it. When you're done, don't forget to click Save. Take a look: Image Added |
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| See what invoice reminders have been sent in your sent emails list. |
Turning off invoice remindersTo turn off invoices reminders, go to the Invoice Reminders window (Sales > Invoice Reminders or Setup menu > Preferences > Emailing tab > Invoice Reminders) and deselect Send invoice reminders: Image Added We'd love to hear what you thinkWe're keen to hear from you about how we can improve invoice reminders, so click Send Feedback in the Invoice Reminders window to tell us what you think. Image Added |