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title: "Creating a Billing Schedule"
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Create a billing schedule to include one or many invoice periods. Charges can be applied to one or more invoice periods within a billing schedule. You must create a billing schedule in order to create invoices for customer accounts.

**Step 1**

In the Schedules module click **Create Schedule** to create a new schedule and complete the following fields:

| **Property** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| Description | Description of this billing schedule |
| Begin Date | Start date for the billing schedule.<br>**Note**: this cannot be earlier than the end date of any existing billing schedules |
| End Date | End date of the billing schedule. Typically a billing schedule will cover an irrigation season. |
| Interval Offset | Invoicing period duration within the billing schedule. Charges are grouped within the invoice period.<br>For example, set this to three months to generate invoices every three months. |
| Invoice Date Offset | Number of days to add to the end of the invoice period to set the invoice date.<br>The invoice is due on the invoice date plus the number of days specified in the **Payment Terms** |
| Payment Terms | Number of days after the invoice date before the customer is required to make payment.<br>**Note**: this is not enforced in the application because payments are not linked to specific invoices. |

**Step 2**

Click **Save** to save your changes.

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