How can you pause or suspend a recurring invoice?
[The title of this thread has been edited from the original: Temporary Pause on Recurring Series]
With the current COVID-19 situation, many business are temporarily closing. For those of us who have recurring payments (subscriptions or series) with our clients for services we cannot currently offer, how do we pause or suspend these series?
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Posted 03-20-2020
Hey @Koawood-
Thanks for posting in the Seller Community.
We don't have a way of temporarily pausing or suspending recurring Invoices at this time. You can either end the current Invoices series (and create a new one when things get up and running), or you can adjust the next payment date to extend the time frame so they won't be charged this or next month. If you'd like to adjust the payment date, head to the Invoices section of your Square Dashboard and select the recurring invoice you'd like to change. From there, select Edit Series, then locate the Next Invoice button to make the adjustment:
We realize that recent events have impacted our seller's day-to-day business and sales. I hope this suggestion is helpful. Having a suspend or pause button for Square Invoices is a fantastic feature request that we received in the past, and input like yours is very helpful to the product teams that develop these features. Please let me know if you have any questions about this information, or if there's anything else we can do for you during this time✨
Posted 03-28-2017
Hi @kfunch, welcome to the seller community and thanks for bringing this up!
You can edit the payment amount and date from your Invoices tab, though the ability to automatically send a prorated invoice in a recurring series is not available. For now, I would suggest sending a single invoice for the initial partial amount, then you can create the recurring invoice series for the full amount when the next payment is due.
I can see how this feature would help streamline your workflow. Rest assured that I'll be sharing your post with our Product Liaison team. We'll circle back with any updates or additional options as they're available.
Thanks for your patience, and let us know if you have any other questions. 🙂