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What does my customer see when I use direct debit?
What does my customer see when I use direct debit?

Below is a visual summary of the email communications we send to your customers when you use direct debit.

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Written by Chris Carty
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All emails can be sent with your logo, icon and primary brand colour. These can be configured in the Console by going to your Branding settings.

When you send a mandate to a customer

  • When you send a mandate from the Adfin console, we send an email inviting your customer to authorise a mandate.

    • You can also add your own custom message to this.

Reminders when a customer hasn't authorised the mandate

  • If your customer hasn’t authorised the mandate, we send an email every 7 days reminding them to, up to a maximum or 3 times (21 days) - this is the same as the above email.

When a customer authorises the mandate

  • When your customer authorises the mandate, we send an email to them confirming the mandate.

When a customer mandate authorisation fails

  • When your customers mandate authorisation fails, we send an email to them asking to try again.

When you schedule a payment

  • We send an email 3 working days before the payment is scheduled notifying your customer we will take a payment for the given amount via direct debit.

    • If the payment is linked to a specific invoice, we attach the invoice that this payment relates to this email.

When a payment is successful

  • Once we know that the payment has been successful (3 days after it is taken from the customer account), we send a confirmation email.

When a payment fails

  • We send an email to you notifying you of the payment failure and details.

  • We send an email to the customer notifying that the payment has failed and we will try again in 3 working days.

    • If the payment fails again we repeat this once more, then we send a one-time payment request, where the customer can instead by by card or pay by bank.

When a mandate is cancelled

  • If a mandate is cancelled, we send you an email notifying you of this and which customer it relates to.

  • We send an email to the customer notifying them of this.

  • You can send a request for a new authorisation to the customer from the Adfin console.

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