Surf Accounts allows you to set up payments that recur at specified frequencies finitely or infinitely for both suppliers and non-suppliers. The following links give steps to set up recurring receipts. Click, as needed.

• Setting up Recurring Payments
• Generating Recurring Payments
• Removing Recurring Payments

Setting up Recurring Payments

Supplier

To set up a recurring payment, complete the steps below.

1. Log in and click the required business.
2. The Customers page appears. On the left panel, click Banking > Payments.
3. The Payments page appears. From the list, select Recurring Payment.
4. The Recurring Payments page appears. Click Add.
5. The Recurring Supplier Payment page appears. Enter the following details.

   FIELD	STEP
   PAYMENT DETAILS
   SUPPLIER	To select the supplier, click and from the Supplier Search window, click the supplier name. To create a supplier on the go, on the Supplier Search window, click New.
   PAYEE	Applicable for non-suppliers. Ignore.
   AMOUNT	Receipt amount.
   PAYMENT TYPE	Payment type.
   REF. NUMBER	Unique reference number.
   BANK DETAILS heading
   BANK ACCOUNT	Bank account on which the transaction will be performed.
   Include in SEPA	Tick, if applicable.
   Auto Allocate	To auto-allocate the payment, tick.
   RECURRING INFORMATION heading
   RECURRING	Select the frequency at which the payment will recur.
   REPEAT EVERY	Select the interval at which the payment will recur. For example, if the recurring frequency is monthly and you select 2 in this list, the payment will recur every 2 months.
   STARTS ON	Select the first recurrence date. To allocate, generate first (see steps to generate). If no invoice is available on the same date, then invoices set up on a past date are allocated.
   NEXT DUE	If the payment is not posted on its start date, then the start date is the next due date. Else, the next due date is always the immediate recurrence based on the frequency.
   STATUS	Select the current status of the invoice. The following options are available. Generate: The payment will be generate. Closed: The payment is closed and will not be considered for generation. Note that closed payments cannot be retrieved later. On Hold: The payment is put on hold. Note that such payments cannot be retrieved later.
   ENDS	If the invoice recurs indefinitely, select Never. If the invoice recurs until a date, select Date and specify the date. If the invoice recurs a specific number of times, select Number and enter the number.

6. To save the recurring payment record, click [Save].

To verify whether the recurring payments have been allocated, on the left panel, click Banking > Payments and, on the Payments page, view the status under the Allocated column. 
For more details, click  for the required record and click Allocation.

Generating Recurring Payments

Recurring payment generation sets up one or more recurring payments for allocation to invoices on the specified date or earlier. Allocation can be manual or automatic. To generate recurring payment, complete the following steps.

1. Set up a recurring payment.
2. The Recurring Supplier Payment page appears. Click Generate.
3. The Payment List page appears. From the SEPA PAYMENT DATE list, select the date and from the GENERATE RECURRING RECEIPT UP TO list, select the date until which you want to generate the payments and click Update List.
4. The Confirmation Message window appears. Review the message and Click Yes.
5. All recurrences until the selected date appear. To generate, click Generate.
6. The Confirmation Message window appears. Click Yes.
7. The Recurring Receipts page shows a summary of receipts generated.

Removing Recurring Payments

To remove a recurring receipt, complete the following steps.

1. Set up and, optionally, generate the recurring payment.
2. On the Recurring Payments page, click for the row showing corresponding recurring payment record and in the inline menu, click Remove.
3. The Confirmation Message window appears. On the Confirmation Message window, click [Yes]. The record is removed.