Navigation
Navigate to Manage Direct Debits on the Blink dashboard under Customer Centre or under the Customer Centre tab on the left-hand sidebar to access your Direct Debit customers.
GoCardless Set Up
To be able to use Direct Debit within Blink you need to connect a GoCardless account. You can connect your existing GoCardless account or create a new account through the Transaction page.
You can set up a test account with GoCardless to try the feature out as well.
How does it work?
Each active and inactive customer that has been added can be viewed in the table. The status heading will either display ‘Active’ or ‘Inactive’. This depends on whether they have a live running mandate. You can also see the customer's name, email and the creation date for each customer on the table.
Add New
The Add New button will allow you to invite new customers to sign a mandate, where you will then enable to take payments from them.
Delete Customer
By selecting ‘Delete Customer,’ you will have the option to confirm that you wish to delete the customer; after the customer has been deleted, they will have to be re-added in the future.
View
The view page will bring up the complete information for each customer, firstly giving an overview of the customer's details, such as the Name, Email and Address; these can be edited from the view page.
From this page, you will also be able to view the bank accounts and mandates of a particular customer, and once the field is expanded, you can edit and cancel active mandates.
You also have the option to create new One-off payments and Subscriptions, where you will be redirected to the Take a Payment page, with the direct debit option chosen.