Invoices and bookings
How do payment reminders work?
Fliok reminds a customer about an unpaid invoice around its due date, and stops the moment the invoice is paid or cancelled. By default the reminders go 3 days before, on the due date, 3 days after, 7 days after and 14 days after. Each reminder goes once, between 10 am and 7 pm in your workspace’s time zone, on WhatsApp and by email. The balance is checked again at the moment of sending, so a customer who has paid is not chased, and a part-paid invoice is reminded for what is left. Nothing is sent on the day an invoice is issued, and a reminder that is more than 2 days late is dropped rather than sent late. To change them, an admin opens Settings, Integrations, Invoices & receipts, then Payment reminders. Switch them off, remove a reminder, or add one from 30 days before to 90 days after the due date, up to 8 in all. To stop them for one invoice, open it and press Stop reminders. Reminders about a proforma count from its valid-until date and go by email only. The WhatsApp reminder is a short message with a View invoice button. Its wording is fixed and carries no offer, because Meta treats a notice that also promotes something as a marketing message. To remind one customer yourself, open Invoices, Who owes you and press Remind: one message about their oldest unpaid invoice, whatever the ladder says. The reminder that goes before a recurring bill runs out is a different message, described under billing a customer every month.
Invoices and bookings
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- How do I send my first invoice?Switch on Invoices & receipts, add your business name, then press New invoice: the bill goes to your customer on WhatsApp and by email.Read more
- How do I send a quotation, and what happens when it is accepted?Open Invoices and press New quotation: the customer gets a PDF with a link where they accept it, ask for a change or decline.Read more
- What is the difference between editing, cancelling and voiding?Edit changes a bill and keeps the old copy, Cancel withdraws a bill for good, and Void undoes a payment you recorded by mistake.Read more
- How do my customers pay an invoice?Every bill shows what is owed and how to pay it: a UPI QR for the exact amount, your bank details, and Pay online through your own Razorpay account.Read more
- How do I bill a customer every month?Set up a recurring bill: Fliok raises the bill on each date and sends it, and your customer pays it the usual way.Read more
- Who has not paid me, and how do I send a statement?Open Invoices and the Who owes you tab: it lists every customer with something unpaid, what they owe and how late it is.Read more
- How does GST work on my bills?Your bills carry GST only if you say you are registered for it; a new business starts as Not registered for tax, with no tax on its bills.Read more
- How do I set up my booking page?Switch on Bookings, add one thing customers can book, and share the link: the page takes bookings and sends the confirmations and reminders.Read more
- Can I take an advance for a booking?Yes. Switch on Ask for an advance, and a booking is confirmed once the customer has paid; until then its time is kept for them.Read more
- Can customers pick a staff member?Yes. Add the people who take bookings, and your booking page asks Choose who, with Anyone available as one of the choices.Read more
- How do reschedules, cancellations and no-shows work?A customer can move or cancel a booking with the Manage booking button in their messages, until the booking starts; your team can do the same from…Read more
- How do review requests work, and why can’t I hide bad ones?Switch a request on and each customer gets one message after they pay an invoice, or after their visit, asking how it went.Read more
- Why did my customer not get the WhatsApp message?Open the invoice or the booking and look at what was sent: every message that did not go says why, and the email still goes when there is an address.Read more
- What are the limits on invoices and bookings, and what counts?Invoices and bookings are part of Basic, Pro and Enterprise, each with a monthly limit; they are not on Free and are not add-ons.Read more
- Can a bill show names in Hindi, Bengali or Tamil?Yes, in 8 Indian scripts: a name, an address or an item typed in one of them prints that way on the PDF.Read more
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