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Direct Debits

Table of Contents

Overview

This feature

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enables you to create

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or connect your

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GoCardless account and manage your Direct Debit payments along with your other payments in Blink.

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In one place, you can add new customers, create subscriptions

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, take

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one-off payments, and manage your

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customer's payments and mandates

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. We also

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provide the

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option to integrate into a test GoCardless account,

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allowing you

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to try out the Direct Debit features and

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functionality without using

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real funds.

Creating/Connecting your GoCardless Account

Navigate to the Direct Debits

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section by selecting

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‘Manage Direct Debits’ on the dashboard

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or

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using the left-hand navigation bar (

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Customer Centre > Direct Debits).

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Please select either a Live or Test account

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and

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proceed to log in to your existing GoCardless account

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or

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create a new one.

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You'll be redirected to a page hosted by GoCardless

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where you can enter

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the

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necessary information.

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titleVideo Tutorial - Adding new/existing account

New

https://www.loom.com/embed/400a08209951412ab7eb462294f8423a%22

Existing

https://www.loom.com/embed/400a08209951412ab7eb462294f8423a%22

Managing your Direct Debits

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After connecting a GoCardless account

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, the

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interface changes to display two tabs

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: Customers and Payments.

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Customers

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Viewing

The Customers tab displays all

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customers

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with whom you have

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a Direct Debit agreement

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You can view

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their payment history

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,

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create

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new customers, request mandates, and manage subscriptions.

All your customers are listed here with their basic contact information, date created, status and various action buttons.

Each customer can be selected and expanded to display further information on the customer (including address and bank account), the mandates that you have (and had) with them, and any payments or subscriptions that you have taken or have scheduled.

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Address/Bank accounts

The customers bank account and address are shown here. The merchant can select the “Edit” button, and update the customers name, email and address, or attach custom metadata to this customer.

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Mandates

Each mandate is shown with its reference, date initiated, the last payment taken using this mandate (this shows the actual date of the payment, not the date it was initialised), and its status. A mandate can be edited to attach custom metadata too.

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Subscriptions

Each subscription is shown with its name, date created, date of the first and last payments, the amount and frequency that it is collected, and its status. It can be expanded to show all payments that have been taken or have been submitted (This include pending_submission status).

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One-off payments

Each payment is shown with its reference, amount, status and date that it was initiated.

Adding new customer

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To add a new customer, simply click on the "Add Customer" button located at the top left of the page

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. Then, enter the

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customer's email

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address. Once you've done that, the customer will

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receive an email from GoCardless with the instructions on how to set

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up a mandate agreement with you.

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After the customer

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completes the form,

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you will receive a notification email from GoCardless and the customer

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's information will be added to your "Customers” list.

Creating a mandate

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When a customer is

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marked as "Inactive," it means that they currently don't have an ongoing agreement with the merchant to make payments through direct debit. In order to create an agreement, the merchant can either reinstate an inactive one, request a new one, or request a one-time payment through direct debit and sign a mandate.

  • Reinstating an Inactive mandate - Select an “Inactive” customer, and then the “Reinstate” button next to the customers “Inactive” mandate. This will resubmit the previous mandate.
    A mandate can only be reinstated if it has been cancelled through Blink or the GoCardless dashboard. Any mandate that has been cancelled by the bank cannot be reinstated. A mandate can be resubmitted up to 10 times.

  • Creating a new mandate - Locate an “Inactive” customer, and select “Create mandate” button. This will prompt the merchant to select the customers bank account, and then submit a mandate request for that bank.

  • Requesting A Payment (within Payments) takes a payment and creates a mandate.

Creating and managing a subscription

Locate an “active” customer, select the “Create new” button and then “Subscription”.

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take you to the Take a Payment page, where the merchant can create fixed repeat scheduled payments. They input the name and amount for this subscription

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and decide its schedule. The start date can be chosen, along with the frequency and length.

The merchant then selects the mandate

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on which this subscription will be created

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and creates the subscription.

A subscription will have two buttons, “Edit” and “Cancel”.

  • Edit - This opens an iframe where you can change the name and amount of the subscription. (Please note

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  • that any changes to the amount will only occur for the next scheduled payments. Any payment that has already been submitted (i.e. has at least a status of pending_submission - the first stage) will use the original amount that it had)

  • Cancel - This will cancel the subscription and any future scheduled payments. Any payment that has already been submitted will not be cancelled. (To cancel those payments, see “Creating a one-off payment” below)

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Creating a one-off payment

Locate an “Active” customer, select the “Create new” button and then “One-off payment”.

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This will

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take the merchant

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to the Take a Payment page, where a one-off payment can be taken. The amount and description for this payment can be selected, and

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the date for the payment to be initialised. (Please note, this is the date the payment will be actioned. The actual funds will not be transferred on this day)

Any payment that is still in the “pending_submission” stage can be cancelled using the “cancel” button.

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Delete customer

Locate a customer and select the “Delete Customer” button.

This will remove the customer from the

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merchant's list. Only “Inactive” customers (with no active mandates) can be deleted. (Please note

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that any payments

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already

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submitted will not be cancelled. They can only be cancelled using the “Cancel” button in the “One-off payments” section under a customer, so if this customer is deleted

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, there will be no option to cancel the payment. This payment will still show up in the “Payments” tab)

Payments

This page displays all payments that you have taken or have pending.

Each payment is shown with the Customers name and email, reference, amount, requested date, completed date and status.

Possible options for statuses are

Pending

  • Pending Submission - The payment has been created but hasn’t yet been submitted to the banking system for processing. The payment will be automatically submitted prior to the charge date. You can still cancel payments while they are pending submission. 

  • Submitted - The payment has been submitted to the banking system for processing, and can no longer be cancelled. If you would still like to cancel the payment at this stage, please advise your customer to contact their bank directly with this request. 

  • Pending Customer Approval - The customer has selected “More than one person is required to authorise Direct Debits” on the online mandate form, but has not yet sent this to GoCardless. Alternatively, the customer is set up with a restricted mandate and has not yet approved the payment. 

Unsuccessful

  • Failed - The payment was not successfully collected from the customer’s bank account. (The reason for this failure will be listed on your GoCardless dashboard)

  • Cancelled - The payment was cancelled before the charge date. No further action will be taken on this payment.

  • Charged Back - The payment was returned to the customer’s bank account in accordance with Direct Debit rules. This is actioned by the customer’s bank at the request of the customer.

Successful

  • Confirmed - The payment has been confirmed by the customer’s bank as having been successfully collected from their account. Once the payment has been confirmed, GoCardless will arrange for it to be paid out to your registered account. Please note that we can only pay out to a bank account that has been fully verified. 

  • Paid Out - The payment has been paid out by GoCardless to your registered account. Payouts are typically generated in the morning and should arrive into your account in the afternoon. Please note that all times are estimated. 

Receipts

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GoCardless handles all emails and receipts

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Logging out/Connecting a new GoCardless account

Select the profile icon in the top right-hand corner of the portal, and then “My Connected apps”. If a GoCardless account has been linked to Blink, a “Disconnect My GoCardless Account” button will be displayed there. (Please note, only the Lead Admin will see this button)

To connect a new GoCardless account (or the same one), follow the same steps as in the “Creating/Connecting your GoCardless Account” section above.

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Blink Slice Webinar - Dive into Direct Debits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WcPYsqqTm4