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Get money in your pocket faster by automatically notifying your customers to pay their invoices. If you use AccountRight to send emails, there are two ways to gently prod your customers – invoice reminders and unpaid invoice summaries.

What's the difference?

  • Invoice reminders allow you to choose when you want your customers to receive reminders on individual invoices.
  • Unpaid invoice summaries contain a list of outstanding invoices that a customer will automatically be sent monthly.

You can turn invoice reminders on for all or selected customers.

See how invoice reminders will look to your customers.

 

Set up invoice reminders for all customers

Set up invoice reminders for all customers

Turn on invoice reminders for all of your customers. Here's how:

  1. In your online company file, go to the Sales command centre and click Invoice Reminders. The Invoice Reminders window appears.
  2. Select the option Send invoice reminders and Send unpaid invoice summary.

  3. Select the option All customers under each of the above.

  4. 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 reminders to certain people, you can turn off reminders for them specifically by visiting their contact cards.

To turn off invoice reminders for all customers, repeat these steps and deselect the option Send invoice reminders.

Set up invoice reminders for selected customers

Set up invoice reminders for selected customers

You can choose to send invoice reminders to a select group customers. First, you'll need 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.

  1. In your online company file, go to the Sales command centre and click Invoice Reminders. The Invoice Reminders window appears.
  2. Select the option Send invoice reminders and Send unpaid invoice summary.

  3. Select the option Select customers under each of the above.

  1. Click the X in the top-right corner to close the Invoice Reminders window.
  2. Once you've completed these steps you'll need to visit the card files of the individual customers you want to send reminders to.

Set up invoice reminders for a single customer

Set up invoice reminders for a single customer

  1. Go to the Card File command centre and click Cards List.
  2. Click the Customers tab.
  3. Click the zoom arrow to open the customer's card.
  4. Click the Selling Details tab.
  5. Click Invoice reminders.

    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.

  6. Select the option Send invoice reminders to this customer and Send unpaid invoice summary to this customer.
  7. Click the X in the top-right corner to close the Invoice Reminders window.
  8. Click OK to save your changes.

Customise your reminders

Customise your reminders

You 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).

— change a reminder

delete a reminder

+ Add reminder set up a new reminder (maximum of 5).

Remember—changes to a reminder apply to all customers who receive reminders.

Customise your reminder frequency

When changing or adding a reminder, choose how many days before or after your invoice due date to send the reminder.

Customise your reminder emails

Tailor 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.

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:

See what invoice reminders have been sent in your sent emails list.

We'd love to hear what you think

We'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.

Invoice Reminders feedback