Daily-Weekly Billing

When to Use This Feature

• You may want to offer a free trial that lasts for less than a month, then automatically roll customers into a paid monthly plan.
• You may offer products you want to sell as weekly subscriptions, such as electronic publications.

Best Practices

• Exercise caution with Dunning cycles; if they are too lengthy, it may cause confusion for subscribers with short billing cycles.
• Exercise caution with negative bill lag days. An account invoiced many days in advance on a weekly recurring plan could generate multiple invoices and changes before the invoice date, resulting in confusing credit memos, rebills, voids, or other complex Aria transactions.
• Ensure timely approval of pending invoices. Falling behind in the approval process, then approving multiple pending invoices, may generate multiple email invoices to customers.
• Exercise caution with Days Until Due.  If payments are not due until after the invoice date, multiple invoices might be generated before Aria attempts a payment collection against an invoice associated with a billing cycle that occurred several billing cycles ago.
• Shorter Usage Intervals may cause accounts to miss usage unit thresholds for volume discounts or flat rate per tier thresholds. 

• Daily-Weekly Billing does not support Usage Accumulation. When an account updates from a rate schedule with a monthly billing interval to rate schedule with a daily or weekly rate schedule for a plan with Usage Accumulation, Aria resets the Usage Accumulation. When an account updates from a rate schedule with a daily or weekly billing interval to a rate schedule with a monthly billing interval, Usage Accumulation becomes available again as a plan option. 
• You cannot update an existing rate schedule on a plan from a monthly to a daily or weekly billing interval. You must create a new rate schedule on existing plans to use Daily-Weekly Billing.
• The allowable value for Bill Lag Days is dynamically calculated as 1 day less than billing interval.
  • For example: For a 5-day billing interval, the allowable value for bill lag days is +/- 4 days. For a 3-week billing interval, the allowable value for bill lag days is +/- 20 days.
  • An error message results if you enter a number greater than the billing interval.
  • If the ‘Allow bill lag days to extend beyond 1 billing cycle’ client parameter is set to TRUE, you can set Daily-Weekly Bill Lag Days on a Master Plan Instance to a value greater than its billing interval.
• Proration calculations are different for Daily-Weekly billing than monthly or greater billing intervals.
• The <offset_months> and <auto_offset_months_option> inputs are ignored when you use APIs to add, update, or replace a daily or weekly plan. Instead, you can use the <offset_interval> input, in APIs with that field, to delay the addition of a daily or weekly plan.
• The Use Negative Lag Days Offset For Recurring Credit Initial Credit Generation parameter (under Configuration > Billing > Invoice Settings) does not apply to daily or weekly plans.