Late fees
Creating a late fee
Late fee settings are managed within the Site Advanced Settings. Click on the + icon to add a new late fee.
Late fee features
We support a range of features that define how late fees are handled:
- New late fee: Late fees will only be applied to invoices generated after the creation of the late fee settings. Invoices with dates prior to the creation of a new late fee setting will not be affected by it.
- Updating late fee: When updating values such as the number of days for a late fee, the changes will only apply to invoices generated after the update. Invoices that have already had a late fee applied based on previous settings will not be affected by the updated settings. No additional late fees will be generated for these invoices.
- Multiple late fees per invoice: You can assign multiple late fees to a single invoice, enhancing flexibility.
- Configurable number of days: Late fees are triggered based on a customizable number of days from the invoice date.
- Selective applicability: Late fees exclusively apply to invoices in a "Sent" or "Failed" state.
- Exclusions: Enhanced accuracy as late fees are automatically bypassed for invoices with negative totals (credit notes) and late fee invoices themselves, late fee also do not trigger invoice reminders.
- Flexible fee amount: You can adjust late fee amounts. Choose between absolute figures or amounts proportional to the invoice total.
- Late fee threshold: Late fees will only be applied if the remaining balance on an invoice falls below a specified minimum threshold.
Management of late fees
- Late fees can be filtered in the UI by adding tags=lateFee in the search query:
- A late fee detail looks like this:
- You can also filter all the late fees emitted from an overdue invoice using the parentId filter: