Setup Fees

Collect a one time payment at the beginning of a subscription.

Some billing use cases need to charge an amount once when a person signs up then continue with the normal subscription price. We call this a setup fee. InstaPayments' forms allow you to do this out of the box. How can you set this up?

1. Create or edit any InstaPayments form here: https://orgs.instapayments.io/forms

2. Continue to Additional Settings in the stepper.

3. Check the Setup Fee box and enter the amount you want to charge.

4. Finish the form creation/ update process.

5. Now whenever someone checks out with that form their setup fee will get charged.

How does this actually work?

When a someone fills out the form, we use that info to create customer in Stripe which we then add subscriptions to. If you have a setup fee enabled, we add a balance to the customer before we create the subscription. Stripe then includes this balance in the first invoice of the subscription.

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