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.. _customer_invoices/snailmail:
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Send your invoices by post (Snailmail) Send your invoices by post (Snailmail)
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Follow-up on invoices and get paid faster Follow-up on invoices
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It is essential for your business to collect payments when they are A follow-up message can be sent to customers when a payment is overdue. Odoo helps you identify late
overdue. Odoo will help you identify payments that are late and will payments and allows you to schedule and send the appropriate reminders, using **follow-up actions**
allow you to send the appropriate reminders. that trigger automatically one or more actions according to the number of overdue days. You can send
your follow-ups via different means such as email, post, or SMS.
Manage your follow-ups .. seealso::
====================== - `Odoo Tutorials: Payment Follow-up <https://www.odoo.com/slides/slide/payment-follow-up-1682>`_
Configuration
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To configure a :guilabel:`Follow-Up Action`, go to :menuselection:`Accounting --> Configuration -->
Follow-up Levels`. Several follow-up actions are available by default, and you can customize them
any way you want or create new ones to trigger the following actions:
- Send an Email
- :ref:`Send an SMS Message <pricing/pricing_and_faq>`
- Print a Letter
- :ref:`Send a Letter <customer_invoices/snailmail>`
- Manual Action (creates a task)
It is also possible to automatically send a reminder by enabling the :guilabel:`Auto Execute`
option, within a specific :guilabel:`Follow-Up Action`.
.. tip:: .. tip::
We recommend that you reconcile your bank statements before To send a reminder before the actual due date is reached, set a negative number of due days.
launching your follow-up process. It will avoid you the trouble of
sending a statement to a customer that has already paid you.
The overdue invoices you need to follow-up on are available by default Follow-up reports
in :menuselection:`Accounting --> Sales --> Follow-up Reports`. There, =================
you can easily send a reminder by email or print it as a letter. Then,
you can click on the *Done* button to view the next follow-up that
needs your attention.
Otherwise, if now is not the time for a reminder, click on *Remind me The overdue invoices you need to follow up on are available in :menuselection:`Accounting -->
later*. You will get the next report according to the *Next Reminder Customers --> Follow-up Reports`. From there, you can identify all the customers that have late
Date* set on the statement. unpaid invoices.
When you open a customer, you see all their unpaid invoices (overdue or not). The due dates of the
late invoices appear in red. Select the invoices that are not late yet in the :guilabel:`Excluded`
column to exclude them from the reminder you send.
It is up to you to decide how to remind your customer. You can select :guilabel:`Print Letter`,
:guilabel:`Send By Email`, :guilabel:`Send By Post`, :guilabel:`Send By SMS`. Then, click on
:guilabel:`Done` to view the next follow-up that needs your attention.
.. note::
- The contact information available on the invoice or on the contact form is used to send the
reminder.
- When the reminder is sent, it is documented in the chatter of the invoice.
- If it is not the right time for a reminder, you can specify the :guilabel:`Next Reminder Date`
and click on :guilabel:`Remind me later`. You will get the next report according to the next
reminder date set on the statement.
.. tip:: .. tip::
To avoid sending too many reminders in a short period of time, Reconcile your bank statements right before launching your follow-up process to avoid sending a
change the number of days calculated between each report by going to reminder to a customer that has already paid you.
:menuselection:`Accounting --> Configuration --> Settings --> Payment
Follow-up`.
You can also set a trust level for your customers by marking them as Debtor's trust level
bad, normal or good debtors on the follow-up reports. --------------------
.. image:: followup/followup01.png To know whether a customer usually pays late or not, you can set a trust level by marking them as
:guilabel:`Good Debtor`, :guilabel:`Normal Debtor`, or :guilabel:`Bad Debtor` on their follow-up
report. To do so, click on the bullet next to the customer's name and select a trust level.
.. image:: followup/debtors-trust-level.png
:align: center :align: center
:alt: Set debtor's trust level
Send reminders in batch Send reminders in batches
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To get your follow-up process easier, you can send reminder emails in You can send reminder emails in batches from the :guilabel:`Follow-up Reports` page. To do so,
batch from your follow-up reports page. Select all the reports you would select all the reports you would like to process, click on the :guilabel:`Action` gear icon, and
like to process, click on *Action* and then on *Process Follow-ups*. select :guilabel:`Process follow-ups`.
A pdf document containing all of the follow-up letters for you to print
will also be automatically generated.
.. image:: followup/followup02.png
:align: center
Plan a follow-up process
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To plan a follow-up process, go to :menuselection:`Accounting -->
Configuration --> Settings` and activate the *Follow-up Levels*
feature under the *Customer Payments* section. Then, click on the new
*Follow-up Levels* button that has appeared on your settings page.
A follow-up plan with several actions is available by default in Odoo,
but you can customize it any way you want. Depending on a specific
number of overdue days, plan to send an email, a letter or to undertake
a manual action. You can also edit the template used for the statement
according to the stage of the process.
.. image:: followup/followup03.png
:align: center
.. tip::
If you would like to get a reminder before the actual due date,
set a negative number of due days.

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.. _pricing/pricing_and_faq:
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SMS Pricing and FAQ SMS Pricing and FAQ
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