# Recurring invoices

> A saved invoice plus a schedule. Due invoices are created every 15 minutes, as drafts or emailed to the customer, and stop at the end you choose.

Section: Sales and receivables · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/recurring-invoices

Sales → Recurring. Start one from any invoice: *More ▾ → Make recurring*.

**How do I set one up?** Open the invoice you want to repeat and choose *More ▾ → Make recurring*. The template copies the customer, lines, terms, class, location, project, message and memo. From the screen it starts **monthly, from today, with no end date, created as a draft**. The list shows each template's schedule, next run, last status, whether it auto-sends, and whether it is active.

**The schedule options** — every *n* days, weeks, months or years; **days in advance**; an **end** after a number of occurrences, on a date, or never; and **auto-send** — are held on the template and can be set through the API (see [API keys](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/api-keys)). The Recurring screen does not edit them yet.

**When it runs.** Due templates are checked every 15 minutes — you can see each run under Settings → [The automation log: what runs on its own](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/automation-log) — and *Run due templates now* does it immediately. Each invoice is dated for its own period; a template that fell behind catches up one period per run rather than stacking several invoices on today's date. With **days in advance**, the invoice is created that many days before its date (dated the 1st, created on the 25th).

**Drafts or emailed.** Without auto-send the invoice is created as a **draft** for you to check and send. With auto-send it is created as sent and emailed from your connected mailbox with the PDF and a *View and pay online* link, through the outbox — see [Emailing an invoice (Save & send)](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/send-invoice-email). If no mailbox is connected, or the customer has no email address, the invoice is still created and the template's last status says *created, not emailed* with the reason.

**When it ends.** After the last occurrence, or once the end date has passed, the template switches itself off and says why.

**Charging a card every month.** A recurring invoice does not take payment by itself — it bills, and the customer pays through the link. For billing tied to a card on file, see [Subscriptions and plans](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/subscriptions).

Only *Scheduled* templates are run automatically.