Credit Cards settings

You can find this section in HostBill Admin → Settings → General Settings → Billing → Credit Cards.

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Credit card section lets you configure options for credit cards information storage and management and payment collection.

Provide list of credit card providers that will be accepted, separated by comma.

Controls whether card details should be stored in the database or not. Choose if you want to:

allow saving credit card for later use
allow saving credit card for later use but only if credit card is tokenized by gateway
do not store credit card details in database

If more than one tokenization module is available, pick one that should be responsible for tokenizing cards if entered in client portal

Controls Credit card client functions. Choose if:

Clients are not allowed to remove their credit card
Clients can remove their credit card
Clients can remove their credit card if replacement card is set or no active service is present

Please note that this may affect for example recurring payment collection.

This option allows you to limit the amount of credit card updates that client can make per given period of time (per day, week or month).

Choose if you want to process every credit card or reject credit cards that were declined by the system X times before.

This feature controls how credit card payment are captured. Available options include:

Don't charge automatically. Let clients pay manually
Charge automatically stored credit cards X days before invoice due date.
Attempt once to charge
Retry charging credit card for X days
Use payment module related to invoice to capture payment
Use credit card module if card is present and non-credit card gateway is related to invoice
Do not capture payments for unpaid invoices containing service with cancellation request
Capture payment for all matching invoices, including services with pending cancellation request
Allow client to enable/disable autocharge

You can let clients pay manually or enable automated payments X days before the invoice due date.

If you enable automatic payment collection you can choose to attempt only once to charge or enter number of charge attempts per day.

If you use more than one gateway, or migrate from one, you can force automatic payment even if different gateway was selected for invoice

You can also allow client to enable/disable autocharge. This option will be available in Client area → Account details → Settings.

This option lets you decide whether or not to accept partial invoice payments. Available options are:

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