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Billing

October 8, 2024

Import contracts into Sequence

Import contracts into Sequence

Upload sales contracts, order forms and customer agreements directly into Sequence and get a side-by-side view whenever you're billing a customer.

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Daniel Meechan

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Adam Hutchinson

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Renz

Billing

June 27, 2024

Roll-up billing

Roll-up billing

Introducing roll-up billing, our latest billing enhancement for usage-based Saas companies with complex customer structures. Use roll-up billing to aggregate usage charges from multiple accounts customers into a single invoice provided they are in a parent-child relationship. Learn more in our docs.

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Mo Sharaf

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Kai Moseley

Billing

May 15, 2024

Open ended billing schedules

Open ended billing schedules

You can now configure billing schedules to run indefinitely, helpful for businesses with pay-as-you-go pricing or auto-renewing plans. Also available via API, you can now set a null end date on the billing schedules endpoint to denote an open-ended schedule. In the dashboard, simply select the new ‘Forever’ option as the duration and the schedule will continue to run until canceled or changed.

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Kath Smith

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Becky Fulton

Billing

March 19, 2024

Minimum fees for usage-based billing

Minimum fees for usage-based billing

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of minimum fees for usage-based billing. With minimums, you can set a predetermined minimum amount for one or more usage-based prices, ensuring that you always bill for a guaranteed amount regardless of actual usage.

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Kai Moseley

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Lewis Blackwood

Billing

March 15, 2024

Billing schedule phases

Billing schedule phases

We’re excited to announce the launch of billing schedule phases, a new tool to automate billing changes over time.

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Kai Moseley

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Lewis Blackwood

Billing

February 8, 2024

Enhanced billing setup

Enhanced billing setup

We’ve redesigned the billing setup experience to make it easier to translate contracts with custom pricing into automated billing schedules. Add products from your catalogue and create new custom pricing on the fly. Set up and bill for advanced commercial terms in minutes – learn more in our demo mode.

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Kai Moseley

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Matt Collier

Billing

January 24, 2024

Instant charges

Instant charges

Bill customers for transaction events in real-time with our new instant charges endpoint. Instant charges in Sequence allow you to charge your customers instantly for each usage event, instead of accumulating charges over the whole billing period. Prior to charging a customer, call the new estimation endpoint to get a real time estimate ahead of time. Learn more in our docs.

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Lewis Blackwood

Billing

November 3, 2023

Create draft billing schedules

Create draft billing schedules

You can now save billing schedules as drafts. With draft mode, you can now easily review schedules and make sure pricing, terms and start dates are correct before starting the billing process.

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Kai Moseley

Billing

October 11, 2023

Cumulative usage calculation

Cumulative usage calculation

The new usage calculation modes feature offer more control over your consumption based billing process. Choose between current-period or cumulative usage tracking, ideal to bill for monthly overages over a running total of customer usage.

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Mo Sharaf

Billing

September 20, 2023

Customer Portal

Customer Portal

Introducing a branded portal for your customers to seamlessly access their invoice history, usage and credit balances. The portal can be customized with your own logo and easily shared with any stakeholder. View the docs to learn more.

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Becky Fulton

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Ian Hutchinson

Billing

September 6, 2023

Combine advance and arrears billing

Combine advance and arrears billing

You can now automate billing for contracts that include different types of arrears and advance changes from a single billing schedule. Instead of maintaining different schedules or subscriptions, you can now have a single source of truth for a customer’s commercial terms.

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Lewis Blackwood

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Raniero Russo

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Dmitri Grabov

Billing

August 25, 2023

Combine multiple discounts

Combine multiple discounts

Sequence now automates billing for contracts that include multiple unique discounts across products. Enable your sales team to leverage any discount lever to close a deal, and be confident the billing engine supports it.

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Lewis Blackwood

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Kath Smith

Billing

August 9, 2023

Combine multiple billing frequencies

Combine multiple billing frequencies

Automate usage-based billing for complex contracts with multiple billing frequencies. Combine annual, quarterly or monthly usage-based charges charges and let Sequence handle invoicing and usage calculation.

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Raniero Russo

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Lewis Blackwood

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Dmitri Grabov

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Mo Sharaf

Billing

June 23, 2023

Translate sales contracts into automated billing

Translate sales contracts into automated billing

We're excited to introduce our new billing setup workflow. Automatically generate compliant, multi-currency invoices for complex pricing models. Set up automated billing for any contract in under one minute and never miss an invoice again.

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Dmitri Grabov

Billing

April 5, 2023

Offer Prepaid Credits to Customers

Offer Prepaid Credits to Customers

Offer prepaid credits your customers can burn down over time while ensuring upfront revenue. To learn more about how to grant credits to customers, view our documentation.

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Kath Smith

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Mo Sharaf

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Conny Mentel

Billing

March 16, 2023

Improved Billing Frequency Setup

Improved Billing Frequency Setup

We’ve simplified the setup of billing start, end and recurrence dates when you are creating a billing schedule in Sequence.

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Dmitri Grabov

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