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Recurring billing on WhatsApp: Fees and retainers that bill themselves

Set up a fee, a retainer or a membership once. A bill goes out on each date from your own WhatsApp number, and the customer pays.

Part of Invoices & receipts · included in Basic and above · not on Free

Part of Invoices & receipts, not an add-on
Basic & up
The customer pays each bill; nothing is taken
Not an auto-debit
Or every few months, from 1 to 36
Weekly to yearly
Before a term’s last day, a renewal reminder goes
30, 15 and 7 days

What it does

Everything in Recurring Billing

  • A bill raised on each date, by itself
  • Every week, month, 3, 6 or 12 months
  • Until you stop it, for a number of bills, or to a date
  • The first bill waits for you to check it
  • The same pay link and UPI QR as any invoice
  • Renewal reminders before a term runs out
  • Pause it, skip one bill, or stop it
  • A missed bill waits for you, never a burst

Setting one up

Say how often, how it ends and how it leaves

One short form: what it is for, who it is for, what each bill holds, how often and how it ends. It lists the first dates before you save.

  • Each bill an invoice, or a proforma first
  • Pay within sets how many days the customer has
  • Or start from an invoice, with Repeat this bill

Its own page

What it has billed, and what comes next

Each recurring bill has a page with the next bill, the bills it has raised and whether each is paid. The promise under it is printed there too.

  • Not an auto-debit: nothing is taken from the customer
  • Edit it, and the change applies from the next bill
  • Skip next bill, Pause, or Stop

Renewals

A reminder before a term runs out

A recurring bill with an end reminds the customer 30, 15 and 7 days before its last day, with what the renewal comes to and a bill to pay.

  • Paying that bill renews it for one more term
  • A marketing message on WhatsApp, and an email
  • Switch it off for instalments that simply finish

Getting paid

Every bill carries the ways to pay

A bill raised this way is an ordinary invoice: its own page with the balance, a UPI QR for the exact amount, your bank details and payment reminders.

  • Paid straight to you, never through Fliok
  • A part payment gets its own receipt
  • Unpaid bills show under Who owes you
Payment reminders and who owes you

Drawn with the dashboard's own components, with sample data.

Getting started

Up and running in four steps

  1. 01

    Say what it is for

    Open Invoices, the Recurring tab, and press New recurring bill. Your customer reads the name you give it.

  2. 02

    Say how often, and how it ends

    Every week, month, 3, 6 or 12 months. Until you stop it, after a number of bills, or on a date.

  3. 03

    Check the first bill

    It is made as a draft unless you choose otherwise. Once you send it, each later one is issued and sent on its date.

  4. 04

    The customer pays each bill

    Every bill has the pay link and the UPI QR. Record the payment, or it records itself when paid online.

Who it’s for

Built for these industries

Businesses that bill the same customers again and again. They are examples, not a list of customers.

  • Coaching institutes
  • Gyms & fitness studios
  • Agencies & freelancers
  • Home services
  • Education & schools
  • Salons & spas

What it costs

Part of your plan, not an add-on

Recurring bills are part of Invoices & receipts, on Basic, Pro and Enterprise. They are not on Free.

Each monthBasicProEnterprise
Documents issuedEach bill a recurring bill raises counts as a document. The Recurring tab warns before the month’s documents run out3001,500Unlimited
Customer emailsOne per address; shared with Bookings1,0005,00025,000
  • The bills and their payment reminders go as utility messages. A renewal reminder goes as a marketing message, at Meta’s marketing rate.
  • Meta bills each WhatsApp message to your own WhatsApp Business account at its own rates; Fliok adds no markup.
  • Each WhatsApp message also counts toward your plan’s monthly message allowance.
  • Customers pay you directly: your UPI ID, your bank account or your own payment gateway, under your agreement with it. Fliok never holds the money.
  • On Basic, customer pages and PDFs carry “Powered by Fliok” and emails “Sent with Fliok”. Pro and Enterprise carry neither.

Said plainly

What it doesn’t do

It raises and sends the bill, and your customer pays it. These are not part of it.

  • Auto-debit and mandatesA recurring bill is a bill your customer pays each time. Fliok never takes money from a card, a bank account or UPI by itself.
  • Changing the dates of a running billThe dates are fixed once a bill has come round. To change them, stop it and set up another.
  • Late feesReminders say what is owed and by when. Nothing is added to a bill for being late.

Got questions?

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers about Recurring Billing. Anything else, ask us.

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Part of Invoices & receipts · included in Basic and above · not on Free

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