Commercial operations

Clients, Orders & Billing

Manage the customer lifecycle from account creation and ordering through invoicing, payment and service activation.

Clients

The client record is the central business context for customer services, orders, invoices, domains, support activity and account operations.

  • Keep customer identity and contact information current.
  • Review service ownership before administrative lifecycle actions.
  • Use role-controlled administrative actions for sensitive changes.
  • Maintain an auditable history where supported.

Orders

Orders represent requested products or services and should progress through the defined validation, payment and provisioning workflow.

  1. Order created

    Capture the requested product and customer context.

  2. Validate

    Confirm product, pricing and required configuration.

  3. Payment state

    Apply the business payment policy.

  4. Provision

    Send eligible services to the configured provider module.

  5. Confirm

    Record the resulting service state and identifiers.

  6. Notify

    Issue applicable customer notification.

Invoices

  • Use structured invoice records rather than manually generated standalone documents.
  • Confirm issue date, due date, customer and line items before finalisation.
  • Keep customer-facing PDFs free of internal machine data.
  • Maintain invoice and payment state consistently.

Payment gateways

Gateway credentials must be configured for the customer's own payment-provider account. Use test or sandbox mode where supported before enabling live checkout.