Send an invoice
Say "invoice them $29, due in 30 days" and get an invoice with a pay page, a PDF from your domain, reminders, sales tax and the payment in your books.
Send a Customer an Invoice they pay on a hosted page, with reminders until it is paid.
Needs Open a bank account · Customer
What you get
- 1Invoice with its lines, number and due dateInvoice
- 1hosted page to pay by card or bank transferInvoice
- 1PDF, emailed from your domainMessage
- 3reminders before and after the due dateProcess
- 1sales tax on the linesInvoice
- 2lines in your books: money owed to you, then cash in once paidEntry
Your agent does
You, to your agent
Send a customer a $29 invoice, due in 30 days.
Bill Harbor Properties for this month’s setup work.
Send the invoice and chase it if they pay late.
# 1. Invoice.create
INVOICE= $(curl -X POST https: //api.sb/ leaseline.app/ invoices \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/ json" \
-d '{"total": {"amount": 29, "currency": "USD"}, "due": "2026-11-22", "collection": "send"}' | jq -r '.invoice["$id"] | split("/ ") | last')
# 2. Invoice.bill
curl -X POST https: //api.sb/ leaseline.app/ invoices/ $INVOICE/ bill \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
const invoice = await $.Invoice.create({ total: { amount: 29, currency: 'USD' }, due: '2026-11-22', collection: 'send' })
await $.Invoice.bill({ invoice: invoice.$id })
INVOICE= $(npx startup-builder do Invoice.create --json '{"total": {"amount": 29, "currency": "USD"}, "due": "2026-11-22", "collection": "send"}' | jq -r '.invoice["$id"] | split("/ ") | last')
npx startup-builder do Invoice.bill --json '{"invoice": "'"$INVOICE"'"}'
{
"name": "do",
"arguments": {
"code": "const invoice = await $.Invoice.create({ total: { amount: 29, currency: 'USD' }, due: '2026-11-22', collection: 'send' })\nreturn await $.Invoice.bill({ invoice: invoice.$id })"
}
}
Change it
- Make it net 15.
- Charge their saved card on the due date.
- Void it and send a corrected one.
Under the hood
- Systems
- Billing, Ledger, Tax
- Nouns
- Invoice, Customer, Entry
- Events
Invoice.created,Invoice.billed,Invoice.collected- Stripe objects
Customer,Invoice,Invoice Item,PaymentIntent,Tax Calculation,Hosted Invoice Page
Invoice.bill finalizes the Invoice, so its number and lines no longer change. To correct one, void it and send another. Invoice.collect charges a saved card on the due date when the Customer has one.