- To charge the owner account for your services
- To collect payments on behalf of suppliers, like maintenance expenses or service charges
Creating a collection
To create a collection, follow these steps:- Navigate to the owner account you want to create a collection for
- Under the Balance section, click on the overflow menu (•••) and select Create collection
- Fill out the required fields including amount, description, and tax percent
- You can specify a destination for the collection, this will create an owner payment to transfer the funds from one owner to another
- You have the option to toggle Collect now. Toggling this on will immediately apply the collection to the balance, regardless of whether the owner has available funds to cover it. Alternatively, you can toggle it off and the collection will remain in a pending state until you approve it.
Approving collections
If you created a collection with Collect now toggled off, it remains in apending state until you approve it. To approve a collection, navigate to the collection and click Approve. Once approved, the collection is applied to the owner’s balance.
Platform fees
You can earn commission on the payments you collect from owner accounts by setting the platform fee percentage. The owner will see the full amount in their account and then the payment will be split between the destination and platform account.Updating collections
You can update a collection by navigating to the collection you wish to update and clicking Edit in the top right of the Summary section. You can then update the description, period, and unit.Cancelling collections
Cancelling a collection removes the balance transaction from the owner’s balance. You can do this by navigating to the collection you wish to cancel and clicking Cancel in the top right. You can only cancel a collection when it is either in apending or applied state.
Refunding collections
You can refund a collection after it has beenapplied or paid. You can do this by navigating to the collection you wish to refund and clicking Refund in the top right. You can then specify the amount to refund and add a description about the details of the refund.
Refunding a collection that was created with a destination owner account will also refund the destination owner payment that credited the destination owner balance.
To download a tax invoice for a collection, navigate to the collection and click Tax PDF.
Manage recurring collections
For charges you need to collect on a regular basis, such as a recurring management fee, you can use a recurring collection. A recurring collection automatically creates a new collection on a set frequency, and the collections it creates behave just like the ones you create manually. You can view your recurring collections on the Subscriptions page in the Owners area. Each recurring collection shows its Owner, Amount, Frequency, billing cycles and the Next collection date, along with a list of the Collections it has created.Recurring collections are set up for you through the Yorlet API rather than from the Dashboard. Once created, you can manage them from the Dashboard.