Bilty finance and payments · How-to guide

Understand Bilty payment statuses

Interpret unpaid, part-paid and paid outcomes in the context of Credit, To Pay and Cash Bilty modes. The guide follows the Help Centre standard: exact route, prerequisites, ordered steps, verification and operational boundaries.

Audience: Administrators and authorised Bilty operations staffPermission: Relevant Bilty Management capabilityModule v1.0.0
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Where to goBilty Management → Bilties / Finance
Before you startRequired access: Relevant Bilty Management capability. Work on the correct tenant and record. Use least privilege and review any dependency or protected workflow warning before continuing.

What you’ll accomplish

Interpret unpaid, part-paid and paid outcomes in the context of Credit, To Pay and Cash Bilty modes. Bilty Management keeps drafts, issued records, public capability links, finance, integration events and audit evidence as connected but separately verifiable records.

How the workflow fits together

Use Credit, To Pay and Cash rules, native invoice automation and payment recording. Use the module's current status, permission checks, warnings and linked records to decide the next supported action. Where a downstream invoice, WhatsApp queue item, webhook, PDF, POD record or audit event applies, verify it separately.

Follow these steps

  1. Go to Bilty Management → Bilties / Finance and open the relevant current record or configuration view.
  2. Review the displayed state and compare it with the explanation in this guide.
  3. Compare the live values with the workflow described in this guide: Interpret unpaid, part-paid and paid outcomes in the context of Credit, To Pay and Cash Bilty modes.
  4. Follow any linked record, status, public evidence, invoice, queue or audit entry rather than inferring that a downstream action happened.
  5. Use the related guides below for the operational action that changes the record.

Fields and decisions to review

Bilty typeCredit, To Pay and Cash determine the commercial workflow.
Cash-only chargesLabour, TT and Other are valid only for Cash.
Native invoiceCredit invoice automation uses the existing Britixo invoice system when enabled.
Payment historyVerify payments on the Bilty and any linked native invoice separately.

Record, audit and evidence checks

Reopen the relevant Bilty record or register and confirm its identifier, current status, related parties, timestamps and connected evidence. Check the audit/compliance, payment, public-link, report, API, webhook or WhatsApp evidence that applies to this workflow rather than relying only on a success alert.

How to confirm it worked

Return to Bilty Management → Bilties / Finance or the resulting register and verify that the stored state matches the intended action. For any downstream automation, confirm the downstream record or queue/log entry as a separate completion check.

Technical basis for this guidance

This guide was checked against controllers/Bilty_management.php; models/Bilty_management_model.php; views/admin/dashboard.php; views/admin/bilty_view.php; bilty_management.php. It documents only behaviour exposed or enforced by the supplied module; internal secrets, raw signature payloads and unsupported future workflow assumptions are intentionally excluded.

Controls, checks and common mistakes

  • Do not reclassify Labour, TT or Other charges onto Credit or To Pay records.
  • A native invoice and the Bilty are connected records; reconcile both when correcting genuine financial data.
  • Do not use manual payment merely to hide a failed invoice/payment integration.
Data and workflow safetyConfirm the exact Bilty, authorised audience and final stored status before issuing, publishing a link, recording payment, changing shipment state or sharing a document.