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Removing late fees from your invoices

How to remove late fees from existing and future invoices.

Updated over 6 months ago

Removing late fee from existing invoices

You must edit an invoice itself to remove a late fee. Simply change the value to zero ("0") in the late fee input and save your invoice.

Once your invoice is sent to your client, the late fee section will be hidden if you've set the value to zero (no late fee).

Removing late fee from existing invoices which have had a payment applied to them

If the invoice has already had a full or partial payment applied on it, then you must first remove the payments from the invoice in question. To do this, you would need to either refund the payments already applied, or undo the recorded payment if the payment was collected manually.

Payments that have been made more than 45 days ago are unable to be refunded on Bonsai Payments. To resolve this, you may need to duplicate the invoice and manually apply the payment received. After this is accomplished, you can delete the original invoice.

To refund a payment that has been made with Bonsai Payments, Stripe Payments, or Paypal:

  • Navigate to the invoice in question and click on the three dots towards the top right of the invoice. From here, click on "Refund Payment"

To refund a payment that has been recorded manually:

  • Navigate to the invoice and click on the three dots towards the top right of the invoice. From here, click on "Undo Record Payment"

This will allow you to remove the late fees, as instructed in the previous section.

Removing late fee for all future invoices

To make sure you do not charge your clients a late fee in the future, simply:

  • Under 'Invoicing Defaults':

  • Enter 0 in the Default Late Fee (%) field

  • Select 'Save Changes'

Please note: that the late fee input will still appear when editing an invoice, but it will be 0% by default so it will not affect the amount that your client is charged.

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