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Publish one payment link, and every buyer who pays gets their own invoice

A Payment Link is a priced document you build once and share as a URL. Any number of customers can open it, verify their email with a six-digit code, and pay through the gateways you attached. Each purchase becomes its own numbered invoice under that buyer's customer record, in the same list as the rest of your sales.

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  • One link, many buyers
  • Use your configured gateways
  • Email-verified checkout

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The Payment Links list in Invoice Crowd, showing each link's total and how many purchases it has produced.

What is inside

Price the offer once, and let each sale raise its own invoice

A Payment Link is a priced document with no customer on it. You build it in the invoice editor, tick the gateways it accepts and share the URL. Every buyer verifies their email, pays, and gets their own numbered invoice under their own customer record.

Building the link

One offer, one URL

Choosing which payment gateways a payment link will accept in the Invoice Crowd editor.

Price it once, then tick the gateways

Create Payment Link opens a fresh document on your default template. Name it: a Payment Link draws no automatic number, so the reference field asks for a Payment Link Name and the buyer sees what they are buying. Add line items with rates and quantities, per-line or global discounts and taxes, shipping, notes and custom fields. Then tick the gateways this link accepts in the editor's Payment Methods panel, save, and copy the URL.

  • A gateway you did not tick cannot be used to pay
  • Preview opens the public page as a buyer sees it
  • Copy Link gives you the URL to publish

A link with no customer on it

An invoice names one customer and closes when it is paid. A Payment Link names nobody, holds no balance of its own, and stays where it is: any number of people can open the same URL and pay it. It sits under Sales, and the list shows each link's name, its total, and how many purchases it has produced.

  • Edit, Copy Link, Preview, Download, Duplicate, Report, Delete
  • No send action and no schedule on the list
  • Anyone with the URL can open it; verification comes at checkout

How buyers pay

Verified before anything is charged

Entering the six-digit email verification code before paying a payment link in Invoice Crowd.

Email verified before anything is charged

A buyer presses Pay and picks one of the gateways you attached. Invoice Crowd emails them a six-digit code, asks them to type it back, then collects a name, phone number and billing address. Only then is an invoice created and the buyer handed to the gateway checkout. Verification cannot be switched off: the editor exposes no toggle for it.

  • No account and no password for the buyer
  • Invalid and disposable addresses are refused
  • Link, email and gateway are fixed when the code is issued

Let buyers set their own quantity

Switch Customize Quantity on and the quantity on each line becomes an editable field on the public page, with the total updating as the buyer types. What they are actually charged is recalculated on the server from the link's stored rates, discounts, taxes and shipping, so a price altered in the browser is ignored. The default for new links comes from your business profile.

  • Above zero and no greater than 1,000,000
  • A line's own discount suppresses the global one
  • Override the business profile default on any single link

After the payment

One invoice per buyer

The report for one Invoice Crowd payment link, listing every invoice the link has raised and who bought.

Every purchase raises its own invoice

The link is copied into a new invoice for that buyer, given the next number from your invoice sequence, dated that day with a due date one month out, and priced from the link's saved definition rather than anything the browser submitted. It lands in your normal Invoices list. The link's Customers count goes up by one, and its Report action opens every invoice it has raised, with the customer and amount on each.

  • The gateway choices on the link are copied across
  • Any split-payment schedule is copied and reset to unpaid
  • Filed under the buyer's record on that business profile

Confirmed, posted, and both of you emailed

Payment is recorded only after the gateway's signed callback, or an authenticated read back to the provider, confirms a captured payment for the exact amount and currency. Then the invoice is marked paid, a customer transaction is recorded, the income posts into your accounts, and two confirmation emails go out, one to the buyer and one to you.

  • Only a capture matching the amount and currency counts
  • Marked paid without you touching the invoice
  • Both emails carry the updated invoice PDF

Built in

The rules around a link

A Payment Link is a payable document, not a storefront: no inventory, no expiry and no access control. Everything that settles a sale happens on the invoices the link raises, in the same list as the rest of your work.

  • Gateways you have configured

    Choose from the supported gateways already configured for the active business profile. Options can include Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Square, GoCardless and regional providers, subject to each provider's current currency and account rules.

  • Currency decides

    Which gateways a link can offer depends on each provider's currency and account rules. PayPal drops out on a link priced in a currency it does not support.

  • No expiry, no cap

    A link stays payable until you delete it, or until its business profile or account is blocked. There is no valid-until field and no purchase limit.

  • No stock count

    Nothing decrements as buyers pay. A link representing twenty places will accept the twenty-first, so watch the Customers count yourself.

  • You publish it

    The link is not emailed the way an invoice is and cannot be scheduled. Distribution is copy-and-paste: a site button, a post, a message, a signature.

  • Items cannot change

    Quantities are adjustable when you allow it. Adding or removing a line at checkout stops the checkout with a message instead of repricing.

  • Not a subscription

    A link cannot be a recurring or subscription document. Repeat billing runs on a separate document type in Invoice Crowd.

  • Settled on the invoice

    Mark as paid, manage payment and credit notes act on the invoices a link produces, never on the link itself.

  • Two clocks

    The emailed code expires after 10 minutes. The checkout expires after 15 minutes without progress, and each completed step starts that window again.

  • Returning buyers matched

    A buyer whose email already belongs to one of your customers is matched to that record rather than added a second time.

  • The usual options

    Units, late fees, the payment stub and the overdue notice are toggles in the same panel as the pricing, exactly as on an invoice.

  • Deleting leaves the invoices

    Deleting a link removes it from your Payment Links list. The invoices it has already raised stay in your Invoices list and in your books.

Questions

Payment Links, answered

What is payment link software?

Payment link software creates a shareable web page for one priced offer that a customer can open and pay without an invoice being raised for them first. In Invoice Crowd the feature is called Payment Links: you price the offer once in the document editor, copy the URL, and every buyer who checks out gets their own numbered invoice raised from that link, filed under their own customer record.

Can the same Payment Link be paid by more than one customer?

Yes. A Payment Link in Invoice Crowd is reusable by design. It is not addressed to a single customer and it holds no balance of its own. Any number of people can open the same URL and pay it, and each purchase produces a separate invoice under that buyer's customer record. The Payment Links list carries a Customers column showing how many purchases each link has produced.

Which payment gateways can a Payment Link use?

A Payment Link can use the supported gateways that are configured for the active business profile, including providers such as Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Square, GoCardless and regional options. You choose which configured gateways a link accepts in the editor's Payment Methods panel. Availability on a particular link still depends on the currency, region and account rules set by each provider.

Do customers need an account to pay a Payment Link?

No account and no password are required. A buyer opens the link, chooses a gateway, then verifies their email address with a six-digit code that is valid for 10 minutes, and enters a name, phone number and billing address. Invoice Crowd creates or matches a customer record from those details, so a returning buyer using the same email address is recognised rather than duplicated.

Does a Payment Link expire?

Payment Links in Invoice Crowd carry no expiry date and no usage cap. A link stays payable until you delete it, or until the business profile or account it belongs to is blocked. Nothing decrements as buyers pay, so a link representing a limited number of places keeps accepting payments until you remove it. Deleting a link leaves the invoices it already raised untouched.

Can customers choose how many they are buying?

Yes, when Customize Quantity is switched on for that link. The quantity on each line becomes an editable field on the public page and the total updates as the buyer types. The amount actually charged is recalculated on the server from the link's saved rates, discounts and taxes, so a price altered in the browser is ignored. Quantities must be above zero and no greater than 1,000,000.

Share one URL and invoice every buyer

Build the link in the same editor you use for invoices, tick the gateways it accepts, and copy the URL. Each buyer who checks out gets their own numbered invoice, filed under their own customer record.

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