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Creating New Payment Plan With the Balance of a Cancelled Payment Plan

This article explains how to create a new payment plan using the remaining unpaid balance after cancelling an existing payment plan in Aria, including support for cancelled NSO Installment Terms. It includes a practical example showing how a partial payment on the old schedule rolls into a new three-installment payment plan.

Overview

Aria supports your ability to cancel a payment plan, then create a new payment plan based on the remaining balance of the old payment plan. You can also apply the remaining balance of a cancelled NSO Installment Term to a new payment plan. This feature grants you:

  • flexibility to accommodate customer life changes,
  • improved collections and reduced write-offs,
  • reduced customer churn,
  • operational efficiency for customer service teams, and
  • revenue recognition integrity

Payment Plan Cancellation Collection Logic

Aria processes payment plan installment cancellations as follows:

  • Records the payment plan number on cancellation queue entries for future-dated cancellations, ensuring accurate tracking through the cancellation process.
  • Derives the collection amount for a cancellation from the installment schedule detail rather than the invoice balance, providing more accurate collection for invoices that are only partially covered by an installment.
  • Marks an invoice to prevent duplicate billing batch processing only when the full invoice balance equals the installment open amount.
  • Marks an invoice after any cancellation collection attempt, regardless of whether the collection was successful.

Example: Cancelled Payment Plan

In this example, you cancel the "old schedule" via the API cancel_payment_plan_m after the customer paid $30 toward Seq. No. 1, leaving a Cumulative Remaining Balance of $220. You create a new payment plan for the same invoice (remaining balance of $220), either via the UI or the API create_payment_plan_m, with a three-payment schedule: $73.33 due each week for three weeks.

Note: Do not void or unapply payments after a payment plan is cancelled—you cannot add those charges to a new payment plan. As a rule of thumb, only charges that were unpaid at the time of cancellation are eligible for a new payment plan.

Old Schedule

Seq. No. Notify Date Amount Due Date Paid Amount Cumulative Remaining Balance Status
1 5/1/2025 $50.00 5/5/2025 $30 $220 Closed
2 5/8/2025 $50.00 5/12/2025 $0 $220 Closed
3 5/15/2025 $50.00 5/19/2025 $0 $220 Closed
4 5/22/2025 $50.00 5/26/2025 $0 $220 Closed
5 5/29/2025 $50.00 6/2/2025 $0 $220 Closed

New Schedule

Seq. No. Notify Date Amount Due Date
1 5/21/2025 $73.33 5/28/2025
2 5/26/2025 $73.33 6/2/2025
3 5/31/2025 $73.33 6/7/2025
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