Billing Accounts

The Gotransverse Billing API enables a user to create a billing account, update a billing account, and add a recurring payment method to a billing account.

Terminology

Billing Account — An entity in Gotransverse that allows you to manage personal and billing information about your customers. Actions such as orders, adjustments, and payments are performed through the billing account.

Billing Account Category — A business entity that a billing account is assigned to during the billing account creation process. Billing account categories are a way of organizing billing accounts into groups. You can categorize in a number of ways, including by geographic location or by type of billing account. You can use account categories to set payment terms or to restrict access to billing accounts. Account categories are required for all billing accounts in Gotransverse.

Bill Cycle — The period of time during which service and usage charges are calculated and allowances are measured to create invoices. A bill cycle is assigned during the billing account creation process. Bill cycles are recurring and typically set to repeat on a defined basis. For example, you might send invoices to customers on the first day of the month for services provided the previous month. The length of a bill cycle can vary and can be daily, weekly, semi-monthly, every-other week, monthly, quarterly, or annual.