GoCardless Invoicing via API

Documentation
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Hi,

I can see in the documentation that you can take a payment via GoCardless using the API

Take Payment using GoCardless Direct Debit Mandate

POST https://api.freeagent.com/v2/invoices/:id/direct_debit

Only available for invoices which fit the following criteria:

  • The invoice must be sent

  • The invoice must have gocardless_preauth available and enabled as a payment method

  • The invoice must not have already had a payment taken for it

My question is that in the GUI, you are able to set the DD to come out on the Invoice Date, or the Payment Due date - how do you achieve this through the API? I cannot really see any options for this?

Thanks,
Steve.

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Dear Steve,

Configuring the Direct Debit payment date behaviour for invoices and recurring invoices isn’t yet supported via the FreeAgent API I’m afraid.

I can totally see why this would be a useful thing to be able to do, so I will raise this with the appropriate engineering team.

Kind regards,
Josh
Engineer at FreeAgent

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for your question, as my colleague Josh has confirmed, this is not a feature that is currently available. We have added this to our feature request backlog but unfortunately at this time I cannot confirm if this will get picked up nor any timelines associated with it at present.

Thanks,

Dougie

Product Manager at FreeAgent