2025-Q2: [Billing] Auto Charge Credit Card Fee

A new feature is added to assist the operator in automatically charging the customer a credit card fee, when this method is used for paying.

To make use of this feature:

    1. Create a product e.g. Credit Card Fee e.g. fig1

    2. Enable the trigger: Customer Payment Method Change. fig2

• The trigger will fire only if customer payment method changes (it will fire when customer is added as well)

    3. Set the cronjob to detect customers who paid using a different method than defined on their account and add a once off fee for the next invoice run. fig3

• In the above example the cronjob is configured to detect "credit card payment" and apply product ID = 35 (Credit Card Fee). The script is set to run once a day so "onPaymentTime" was set to scan payments in the last "1 day".

4. For the trigger to work a few new options were added to the SIMPLer API callback module. 

The SIMPLer API callback is configured to:

• Automatically add 'Credit Card Fee' subscription if customer payment method is set to 'credit card'.

• Automatically remove 'Credit Card Fee' subscription if customer payment method is no longer 'credit card'.

• Customer_PaymentMethod_Change_From - module will be called only if payment method is changed "from" specific payment method

• Customer_PaymentMethod_Change_To - module will be called only if payment method is changed "to" specific payment method

• Customer_PaymentMethod_Change_Action - action to be performed (API call) if "from"/"to" condition is met

Published Date: 24 April 2025

Engineer: PD

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