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Introduction to Invoicing
The invoicing API enables you to create and send invoices as well as track outstanding
invoices. Your customers can pay using their preferred payment method from any device on
a secure
Visa Acceptance Solutions
hosted website. Automated reminders are available
to help you remind customers of upcoming due dates or overdue invoices. For more
information, see Invoicing API Requests.You can customize your invoice payment page to display your brand logo and color, as well
as add custom messages to your invoice emails. Shipping information and phone numbers
can also be collected at the time of payment. For more information, see Invoice Settings API Requests.
The invoicing API uses
Visa Acceptance Solutions
's Unified Checkout Integration
to securely
process payments so that you do not have to handle confidential payment data. Fraud and
risk management tools are incorporated into Unified Checkout Integration
to prevent
fraud and reduce chargebacks. For additional security, you can add payer authentication
to your invoice payment processing. For more information, see Add Payer Authentication to Invoicing.To quickly and easily create, send, and manage invoices from your Microsoft Outlook
desktop application,
Visa Acceptance Solutions
offers the Visa Invoicing Add-In. The
add-in can be downloaded and installed from Microsoft's AppSource. For more information,
see Add Invoicing Add-In to Outlook.To receive notifications when an invoice is paid, sent, or cancelled, you can subscribe to
invoicing webhook notifications. For more information, see Webhooks for Invoicing.
IMPORTANT
The merchant is responsible for complying with any legal
and tax requirements when issuing invoices to clients.
Visa Acceptance Solutions
does not certify that the invoicing tool meets any such client requirements.Using the Business Center
Business Center
You can also create, process, and manage invoices using the
Business Center
. For
information about how to access and use invoicing in the Business Center
,
see Manage Invoices Using the Business Center.Configuring Unified Checkout Integration
Unified Checkout Integration
Invoicing supports
Unified Checkout Integration
, which enables you to accept numerous types
of digital payments, such as Apple Pay, Click to Pay
, and Google
Pay.For more information about enabling these digital payments using
Unified Checkout Integration
, see the Enable Digital
Payments section in the Digital Accept Secure Integration Developer
Guide
.Tokenization for Merchant-Initiated Transactions
You can create
Token Management Service
(TMS
) tokens from invoice
transactions using Transaction Management in the Business Center
.IMPORTANT
If you create and use
TMS
tokens for
merchant-initiated transactions (MITs), you must comply with the Consent
Agreement Provisions
as stated in the Improving Authorization Management for
Transactions with Stored Credentials
guide.