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Bill in stages

Split the billing of a service into stages and bill as work progresses.

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Written by Dani from Anchor
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Billing in stages lets you split a single service into multiple payments within your agreement. It’s perfect for milestone-based projects, upfront deposits, or offering clients payment in installments.

Creating a service that is billed in stages

To set up a service to be billed in stages:

  1. Add a service to your proposal or select an existing one.

  2. Set the service as One-time, Fixed Price.

  3. Under Billing Trigger, select In stages.

  4. Choose how the first stage will be billed:

    • Automatically Billed – first stage is billed upon agreement approval; remaining stages are manual.

    • Manually Billed – all stages are manually triggered.

  5. Divide the total amount into stages. Click “Add stage” to include more.

💡 If this is part of your regular workflow, save time by creating a service template in your Service Library.

Client View

When you send a proposal, your client will see a clear breakdown of the payment stages within the service details.

Billing a staged service

To bill a service with staged payments:

  1. Go to the Billing Hub of the relevant agreement.

  2. Open Billing Control.

  3. In the Billed in Stages section, view the remaining stages.

  4. Choose to bill one or multiple stages as needed.

Editing Staged Services

Currently, editing a staged service within an agreement is not supported. To make changes, remove the staged service and add a new one with the updated structure.

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