Joining Payments

Joining Payments for an Account allows creating a single Payment from several existing Payments.

In the platform, Payments can be joined as follows:

• Automatically — if the Reseller activated the Unite payments for prolong and renew orders setting. The automatically created joined Payment is always linked to several prepaid Prolong or Renewal Orders.
• Manually — via the Customer Control Panel only. The manually created joined Payment may not be linked to several Orders, but may include top-up Payments.

In this article:

Automatic joining Payments for the Prepay model

Automatic creating a joined Payment linked to several Orders

Automatic creating a joined Payment linked to several Orders for the Prepay model is performed as follows:

1. The platform attempts to join Payments for an Account every night when the billing process has completed the following actions:
   1. Create the required Prolong Orders and Renewal Orders for the Account's Subscriptions.
   2. Attempt to pay from the Account balance for the created Prolong Orders — if the current date is the date specified in the Paid to parameter of the Subscriptions (see Prolonging a Subscription).
   3. Attempt to pay from the Account balance for the created Renewal Orders — if the current date is the expiration date for the Subscriptions with the activated Auto-renew option (see Auto-Renewing a Subscription).
2. For the created Orders, the platform joins the linked Payments if a Payment complies with all the following conditions:
   • The Payment has the Waiting for Payment status.
   • The Payment is linked to an Order of one of the following types:
     • Prolong Order regardless of the status of the Auto-renew option of the Subscription.
     • Renewal Order for the Subscription with the activated Auto-renew option.
3. For the Orders with the joined Payments:
   1. The linked Payments are cancelled.
   2. The single joined Payment is created:
      • The amount of the joined Payment is equal to the sum of the linked Orders.
      • The joined Payment has the Waiting for payment status.
4. When the joined Payment is created, the Account receives the Joined payment created Notification.
5. For the Orders with the linked Payments that are not included in the joined Payment (including the case when only one Order was created by the billing process), the Account receives the Order created Notifications.

Automatic completing a joined Payment linked to several Orders

Automatic completing a joined Payment linked to several Orders is performed as follows:

1. The platform attempts to complete the joined Payment from the Account balance when any of the following occurs:
   • The current date is the date specified in the Paid to parameter of the Subscription for any of the linked Orders.
   • The current date is the expiration date of the Subscription for any of the linked Orders.
     
2. If the Account balance has sufficient funds, after completing the joined Payment, all linked Orders are completed too.
3. If the Account balance does not have sufficient funds, only the Subscriptions triggered the process of completing the joined Payment are stopped. The joined Payment remains in the Waiting for payment status.

Manual joining Payments

To join several Payments:

1. Sign in to the Customer Control Panel.
2. On the Navigation Bar, click Billing. The Payments page is displayed (see Viewing the list of Payments).
3. Select the checkboxes in the headers of the Payments to be joined. Minimum two Payments should be selected.
4. Click Join. A new Payment is created with the amount equal to the sum of the joined Payments.