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When To Use This
Read this page to understand invoices, payment methods, customer billing, business billing, plans, pricing, and subscription management.
Customer Billing
- Customers may see invoices, saved payment methods, and payment actions in the customer portal.
- A payment action is available to you only when it appears on the page.
- Billing outcomes such as refunds, credits, charge timing, and cancellation effects depend on the business's approved billing policy.
- If your business normally requires a saved card before you can book online, staff can set your household to book without one when you pay another way (for example cash, check, or a special arrangement). When that applies to your household, the online booking screen no longer asks for a saved card first.
Business Billing
- Business users may manage customer billing, invoices, and payment follow-up from the business app when the relevant billing tools are available.
- Owners or admins may also manage Hello Sniff plan or subscription settings from the business billing area or a linked billing surface.
- If your business requires a saved card before customers can book online, staff with family-edit access can override that for an individual household from its billing details, so that household can book online without a saved card (for example cash, check, trade, monthly-check, or special-arrangement families). The household otherwise follows the business's default card-before-booking setting, and messages and alerts still work normally either way.
- Pricing, plan limits, taxes, subscription terms, and cancellation terms come from the current product or business-approved source, so check there for the details that apply to you.
- A business can also charge per-service deposits, cancellation fees, and no-show fees, and issue credits; staff review these before a family is billed. See Fees, Deposits, and Credits — amounts and rules are business-set.
Policy Boundaries
- Exact billing, refund, tax, and subscription terms can change, so this article does not restate them.
- For terms that may change, rely on the current pricing or billing source rather than a fixed copy here.
- Payment success, refund approval, credit, subscription cancellation, and account changes depend on the business's policy, so they aren't guaranteed here.
Troubleshooting
- If a payment action is missing, confirm the invoice status and the user's account.
- If a payment fails, review the visible error and try another saved payment method if available.
- If a business billing page is unavailable, ask an owner or admin to review staff access.
- If pricing is unclear, use the current public or in-app pricing source rather than an older article.