Getting paid

Money moves directly between your customer and you — Venmo, PayPal, a check, or cash. Lil' Rollout tracks who owes what; it doesn't hold or move any funds.

Raising a charge

Charges aren't automatic. Pick the customer, enter the amount and a period label ("August", say), and add it. The charge shows up on their Pay tab straight away.

Each month's charge is now raised for you, about a week before it's due, from the customer's own signup date — so everyone is billed on their own anniversary rather than all on the first. You can still raise a one-off charge by hand for anything outside the usual monthly fee.

Unpaid bills chase themselves too: a reminder before the due date, one on the day, then a few over the fortnight after, by email and by push. Then they stop. Chasing beyond that is a conversation, not a notification, and a customer who learns to ignore reminders is worse off than one who never got them.

The three states

Each row carries its own dates: when a bill was paid, and when the last reminder went out. Both now include the time of day, on your clock — enough to tell a reminder that went out this morning from one that went out last night.

Awaiting confirmation is the one that needs you. Check your Venmo or PayPal, then confirm it. The To confirm number on your home screen is this queue.

We now tell you when somebody claims a payment, by email and — if you've turned notifications on — on your phone. It names them, the amount, how they say they sent it, and any note they left. Until you confirm it, the automatic reminders keep chasing somebody who has already paid, which is why this one is worth acting on.

Confirming also emails them a receipt, so you don't have to.

A customer can take back their own claim while it's awaiting confirmation — if they tapped the wrong method, or tapped before actually sending. It drops off your queue and returns to Unpaid. They can't touch a charge once you've confirmed it, or one you've voided.

Fixing mistakes

Charges can be edited, voided, or removed. Wrong amount, a month someone was paused, a duplicate — fix it here rather than asking them to overpay and settling up later.

Voiding is the one to reach for when a charge shouldn't be paid at all: it settles the bill without claiming money arrived, and stops the reminders. Reopening a confirmed charge is yours to do as well, for when you confirmed something that turned out not to have landed.

History

Everything settled drops into History, newest first, so "did they pay in June?" is a scroll rather than a memory.