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Autessa Payments features: invoicing, payments, subscriptions, tax and payouts
Autessa Payments covers everything from bill to bank: online invoicing with templates, recurring invoices and reminders; card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and ACH payments; subscription billing with retries and proration; paywalls for your own apps; sales tax; payouts; and an AI guide, agent tools and a CLI.
Invoicing
Autessa Payments invoicing takes you from a draft to a paid invoice: line items, payment terms, a PDF and a secure pay link, templates, recurring schedules and reminders that chase late payments for you.
Online invoicing
Autessa Payments includes online invoicing: line items, Net terms, estimated tax and an emailed PDF with a secure Pay invoice button, numbered INV-0001 and up.
Read more →Branded invoice pay page
Every Autessa Payments invoice links to a branded pay page that shows the invoice exactly as the PDF does and takes card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank account.
Read more →Invoice tracking and statuses
Autessa Payments tracks every invoice through Draft, Sent, Viewed, Processing, Paid, Payment failed and Void, flags overdue invoices and keeps an activity timeline.
Read more →Invoice templates
Autessa Payments invoice templates hold the lines, default terms and note you bill often, so the next invoice takes seconds and the customer is chosen fresh each time.
Read more →Recurring invoices
Autessa Payments recurring invoices bill a customer on a schedule and either email each invoice automatically or save it as a draft for you to review first.
Read more →Automatic payment reminders
Autessa Payments sends automatic payment reminders 3 days before, on, and 7 days after the due date, branded like the invoice, and stops as soon as it is paid or voided.
Read more →Accept payments
Autessa Payments accepts cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and US bank accounts on a secure pay page, records cash and check payments, and keeps every payment and refund in one ledger.
Cards, wallets and bank payments
Autessa Payments accepts credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and US bank account (ACH) payments, processed by Stripe, with no card number ever reaching you or Autessa.
Read more →Record cash and check payments
Autessa Payments lets you record a payment made outside it, like cash or check, with the date, a note and an optional receipt, and the pay link stops working.
Read more →Refunds
Autessa Payments refunds online payments in full or in part to the original payment method, prorating tax and reducing the tax recorded for that place and month.
Read more →Transactions ledger
The Autessa Payments transactions ledger lists every invoice payment, charge and refund with its amount, tax, platform fee, total and status.
Read more →Subscriptions
Autessa Payments runs subscription billing end to end: plans, checkout, renewals, retries, plan switches with credit for unused time, and a self-serve billing page for your customers.
Subscription plans and free trials
Autessa Payments plans set a price, how often it renews, an optional free trial and a feature list, and current subscribers keep their price when you change it.
Read more →Renewals and failed-payment retries
Autessa Payments renews subscriptions automatically and handles failed payments for you: three retries over a week, a pay-or-update-card email, then a clean end.
Read more →Plan switching and proration
Autessa Payments switches plans with proration: a new period starts today, the unused days become credit, and you and your customer see the exact cost before anything changes.
Read more →Subscription management
Autessa Payments shows every subscription with its status, next charge and retries, and lets you cancel at period end or immediately, resume, or open its cycle history.
Read more →Subscription links
Autessa Payments subscription links let you sign up a customer for a plan without an app: email the link or copy it, and the subscription starts when they pay.
Read more →Hosted checkout and billing portal
Autessa Payments gives your customers a branded hosted checkout and a self-serve billing page to update their card, switch plans, cancel, resume and download invoices.
Read more →Billing in your apps
Apps you build on Autessa can sell your plans, put pages behind a paywall and check who is paying with a few ready-made components, while card details stay on an Autessa-hosted checkout.
Paywalls and checkout in your apps
Apps built on Autessa can sell your plans with four ready-made components (PaywallGate, UpgradeButton, ManageBillingButton, PlanPicker), turned on per app in one switch.
Read more →Entitlements and one-time payments
The Autessa Payments service gives your app plans(), entitlement(), checkout() for plans or one-time amounts, manageBilling() and a change listener, so you never store a paid flag.
Read more →Sell apps in the Marketplace
Autessa Payments is how you get paid for apps you sell in the Autessa Marketplace: buyers pay your business, retries and receipts are handled, and earnings join your payouts.
Read more →Balance and payouts
Autessa Payments verifies your business and links your bank without sending you to another site, then pays your balance out on the schedule you choose.
Setup and business verification
Autessa Payments sets you up with a six-step checklist and verifies your business on the Payments page itself, so you never leave Autessa or create a separate processor login.
Read more →Balance and payout schedule
Autessa Payments shows your balance and payout history and pays out daily, weekly, monthly or only when you ask, with a hold you set in days.
Read more →Payout bank accounts
Autessa Payments links payout bank accounts through a secure bank picker inside Autessa, supports several accounts and sends payouts to the one you mark default.
Read more →Sales tax
Autessa Payments calculates sales tax, VAT or GST from your customer’s address and what you sell, for the places you are registered, and totals it by place and month so filing is quick.
Sales tax calculation
Autessa Payments calculates sales tax, VAT or GST for the places you are registered, from your customer’s address and what you sell, and locks it on the invoice when sent.
Read more →What-you-sell tax guidance
Autessa Payments asks what you sell, then suggests the tax category, the places to collect in now and the places to watch, as general guidance you confirm.
Read more →Tax collected reports
Autessa Payments totals the tax you collected each month by place, with sales after refunds and payment counts, so you can file each return quickly.
Read more →Customers and branding
Autessa Payments keeps a customer list with what each person paid and owes, and puts your logo, color and terms on every invoice, pay page, checkout and email.
Customer list
Autessa Payments keeps a customer list that fills itself from invoices and subscriptions, with paid, outstanding and subscription totals for every customer.
Read more →Invoice and checkout branding
Autessa Payments brands every invoice, PDF, pay page, checkout, billing page and email with your logo, accent color and terms, sent in your business’s name.
Read more →AI, agents and developers
Autessa Payments has an AI guide that sets things up with you, agent tools that invoice and refund, and a CLI and scripting surface for every payments task.
The Payments guide (AI)
The Autessa Payments guide is an AI assistant that walks you through setup, explains and estimates sales tax, and prepares invoices and settings that change nothing until you click Do it.
Read more →Payment tools for agents
Autessa agents can use Payments tools to create and email invoices, look up customers, refund paid invoices and check payout status, and agents never charge a card directly.
Read more →CLI and scripting
Autessa Payments has a full CLI and scripting surface: invoices, customers, templates, recurring invoices, plans, subscriptions, tax and branding, with risky actions kept in the web app.
Read more →100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Payments fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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