Billing Settings

The billing settings menu allows you to set aspects of your vspPanel which affect how a customer is billed. Most of these settings relate to "Post-Paid" billing which requires the generation of monthly invoices and other payment procedures.

Additionally, there are options within this menu to allow you to change the look and feel of your generated invoices / receipts, change tax values such as GST and VAT and charging currency.

The Items in the menu are explained below:

• Invoice Date Range: This is the date range that your invoice should run from and till. Usually this is from the 1st of the month to the 1st of the month, however you may set this to any number of days between months.
• Billing Currency: This is the currency that symbol that will show through vspPanel.
• Taxation Percent: This is the percent of taxation to add to services. E.g. 10% GST or VAT, etc.

Invoice Layout

The invoice layout for vspPanel is the HTML invoice you want your customers to receive when they check their bill online. Using a set of inbuilt tags in vspPanel you can add values which will be filled in by the software when an invoice is run. The list of tags can be found in the "Help With Tags" link next to the "Invoice Layout" title on this menu. The tags link is updated regularly with the latest available tags.

E.g. If you want to display Your bill was "x" amount to the customer only when they generate your bill you would put in the invoice layout field:

Your Bill was {invoice_total_value}

The {invoice_total_value} will be replaced with the total value of the customers invoice while the bill is generated and will be replaced to look like this:

Your Bill was $194.00

Possible tags at the time of writing this documenation are:

• {invoice_total_value} The total value of the invoice including any overdue amounts from previous months.
• {invoice_value} The value of this invoice only (not including overdue previous months).
• {first_name} The customers first name
• {middle_initial} The customers middle initial
• {last_name} The customers last name (surname)
• {title} The customers title (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, etc).
• {address1} The customers address line 1
• {address2} The customers address line 2
• {address3} The customers address line 3
• {state} The customers state
• {country} The customers country
• {bill_number} The unique bill number for this invoice
• {account_number} The customers unique account number (different to network number, 16 digits long).
• {overdue_amount} The overdue amount on this bill. (Displays 0 if nothing overdue).
• {date_invoice_from} The date this invoice runs from
• {date_invoice_to} The date this invoice runs to
• {display_extras} Displays all extra fee's added to the customers account. (Extras in the edit menu).
• {display_call_records} Displays the customers call records, ordered by date, including call cost, tax if applicable and the total for each number connected to the account.
• {display_extras_cost} Displays the cost of the extra's added to the account.
• {package_name} Displays the name of the package the customer is currently on in the vspPanel system.
• {bill_logo} Displays the image located in the images directory called bill_logo.jpg
• {email} Displays the customers email address.
• {zip} Displays the customers ZIP code (PostCode).
• {landline} Displays the customers landline phone number.
• {cellphone} Displays the customers cell phone number (Mobile number).