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Send invoices that get paid faster

Quick answer

Agent Studio sends invoices by email, text or both, each with a pay link that opens a secure Stripe checkout. Pick a contact, add products or custom items, apply a discount and tax, then press Send invoice. Payments mark it paid on their own, overdue invoices trigger your follow-ups and repeating invoices go out on schedule.

What you'll have

  • Invoices that go out by email or text with a pay link your customer taps
  • Repeating invoices issued and sent on a weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly schedule
  • Overdue invoices chased by an automation instead of by you
On this page
  1. How do I create and send an invoice?
  2. What does my customer see when they pay?
  3. How do I set up a recurring invoice?
  4. How do I chase overdue invoices automatically?
  5. How do I record a cash, check or bank transfer payment?
  6. Questions

How do I create and send an invoice?#

Open New invoice, fill it in, save the draft and send it. Each invoice gets the next number in sequence (INV-0001, INV-0002 and so on) and shows your business name and mailing address from CRM settings.

Send your first invoice

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  1. Step 1: Start a new invoice

    Search contacts by name, email or phone, or add a new contact right from the picker. Add an optional title such as October retainer.
    New invoice
  2. Step 2: Add line items

    Pick a saved product or choose Custom item, then set the description, quantity and price. Use Add item for more lines.
  3. Step 3: Set discount, tax and dates

    Choose Coupon code, Percent off or Amount off, enter a Tax rate (%) and set the Issue date and Due date. Add notes and terms your customer sees.
  4. Step 4: Save and send

    Press Save draft invoice. On the invoice page tick Email, Text (text-to-pay) or both, add a personal note and press Send invoice.
    Open Invoices

What does my customer see when they pay?#

Your customer opens a clean pay page with your business name, the items, subtotal, discount, tax, what is already paid and the amount due. They press pay, finish on a secure Stripe checkout and land back on a thank-you that updates the moment Stripe confirms. Card details go straight to Stripe.

How do I set up a recurring invoice?#

Tick Issue this invoice again on a schedule in the Repeat box. Choose Every week, month, quarter or year, set First repeat on and, if you want an end, Stop after (invoices, optional). Leave it blank and it runs until you stop it. Each new copy gets its own number and goes out by the same email or text route.

How do I chase overdue invoices automatically?#

Agent Studio marks an unpaid invoice Overdue once its due date passes and fires the Invoice overdue trigger once. Build an automation on that trigger to text the pay link, email a reminder, wait a few days and nudge again, or create a task for whoever owns the account.

See what chasing invoices by hand costs you today:

Your numbers

What one repeating task costs you

Pick a task you do every week: follow-ups, reports, data entry. Replace the sample numbers with yours.

Hours back each month

10.8

Worth each year

$6,500

That is 130 hours a year on one task. Describe it once and an agent runs it on schedule from then on.

How do I record a cash, check or bank transfer payment?#

Open the invoice and use Record a payment. Enter the amount, choose Bank transfer, Check, Cash or Other and add a note. A part payment sets the invoice to Partly paid; paying the rest marks it Paid. Card payments through the pay link are recorded for you.

More invoice actions
ActionWhat it does
Send againResends the invoice by email or text with a fresh note
DuplicateCopies the invoice into a new draft for the next job
VoidCancels an invoice that should not be paid; it stays in your records
Status filtersAll, Unpaid, Drafts, Overdue, Paid and Void on the Invoices tab

Questions buyers ask#

Can I text an invoice to a customer?

Yes. Tick Text (text-to-pay) when you send and the customer gets an SMS with the pay link. Texts go through the texting connection chosen in CRM settings.

Can I add tax and discounts to an invoice?

Yes. Every invoice takes a tax rate and one discount: a saved coupon code, a percent off or a dollar amount off. The totals panel shows subtotal, discount, tax and total as you type.

Can customers make partial payments?

Yes. Record part payments by bank transfer, check or cash with Record a payment. The invoice shows Partly paid and the pay link then collects the balance still due.

How do I send invoices automatically when a deal closes?

Add the Invoice or Payment Link step to an automation. It creates and sends an invoice from your products or line items for the contact in the run, by email, text or both.

How do refunds show up on an invoice?

Issue the refund in Stripe. Your webhook reports it, the invoice records the refunded amount and the Refund issued trigger fires for your automations.

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