Adding One-time Charges and Addons Latest Product Catalog

Problem Statement

You want to add multiple ad-hoc one-time charges and addons to a customer or subscription and raise an invoice for them.

Solution

You can add one-time charges and addons together in Chargebee. When you want to add multiple ad-hoc charges or addons to a customer or a subscription, use the Add One-time Charges and Addons action.

Configuration Steps

Step 1: Navigate to the details page of the customer or subscription.

Step 2: Click Add One-Time Charges and Addons on the Action panel.

Step 3: In the Add One-time Charges and Addons page, click Add Quick Charge to add any ad-hoc charges.

Step 4: In the Add Charge pop-up, enter the following details:

*   **Currency**: Specify the currency for the charge.
*   **Amount**: Specify the amount for the charge.
*   **Service Period**: Select the time period that the charged service is to be accounted for. Specify the from and to dates/times of the period. Chargebee considers this service period for the revenue recognition and deferred revenue reports. Note : The time component can only be chosen when your site runs on millisecond-based billing mode.
*   Provide a **description** for the charge.
*   Select **Taxable** if this charge is taxable (if left unselected, tax is not applied on this charge).
*   Click **Add**. You can use **Add Quick Charge** to add more charges as required.

Step 5: Click Add Charge to add non-recurring addons.

*   Select a charge and click **Add**.
*   Select a currency for the charge and specify the period that the charge is added for.
    *   Chargebee considers this service period for the revenue recognition and deferred revenue reports.
    *   **Note**: The time component can only be chosen when your site runs on millisecond-based billing mode.
*   Tax related fields as defined for the charges are displayed.
*   Click **Add**. You can click Add Charge to add more non-recurring addons as required.

Step 6: You can click Add Coupon/Coupon Code to apply a coupon. (Multiple coupons of the same type can also be added. Contact support to avail this feature.)

Step 7: If the charge is for a physical good to be shipped, you can add the shipping address details. You can choose to ship to the customer's billing address, or add the shipping address details. Any existing shipping addresses available for the customer are also available for selection.

Step 8: Select the preferred Payment method from the dropdown.

Step 9: Specify the PO number if required.

Step 10: Under Invoice Notes, you can add additional information to be displayed to your customers on the invoice contextually. Invoice notes configured for Invoices in general, and those added for customer or subscription or non-recurring addon, if any, get displayed here as well. You can remove some of these notes and add a new note as required. This note is displayed first in the invoice under Invoice Notes.

Step 11: Click Preview and Send to preview the invoice, and click Create Invoice.