Automatic Billing
Your customers grow with the growth of your business. Increase in billing quantum becomes an important part of progress. The bills quantity depends on various factors but when this is unmanageable manually then automatic billing should be adopted. The type of products under different price tags call for different billing systems. Then there is same amount recurring billing. The usual billing options being availed today are:
- Email billing
- Automatic credit card charge
- Automatic customer bank account withdrawals
- Bill mailing by third party contracts
Electronic Option are Preferable
This depends on your business style. If you are in a position to adopt electronic billing this reduces much handling of the paper work and cumbersome filling systems too. It is also cost efficient. But whatever the system adopted has to be customer friendly. You may have to make sure if your customers will respond and pay by email.
The QuickBooks may also provide a handy solution to your billing quantum needs. They cater to accounting needs of the new entrepreneurs but may have something suitable.
Again your clientage needs will stay dominant over the system you can adopt. There may be the need to rely on partly paper based invoices for some customers. In this case you may have to use a system that has dual options. The billing done by electronic process and paper printed bills for the more routine customers. Canada based GoBilling may also have a solution for this.
Third party contracts for billing can be an easy way out. Some billing services can be utilized for online email billing. The service is free as regards the emails but they will charge you for the paper and other errands performed. You will have to take everything into account before deciding arrangements.
The email billing offers quick payment option. This is cost effective and convenient. The email bill receiving customers may not respond to your invoices immediately and may get blocked. So give weight to the customer’s suitability.
When using third party services your customer accounts access should carry adequate security features to protect them from being hijacked.
