# Pay your invoice and set up autopay

> Where to find what you owe, how to pay it by card, and how to save a card so future flights settle on their own.

Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/billing/pay-an-invoice-and-save-a-card
Section: Billing and payments. For: Students, Renters, Instructors.

Everything you owe is under Invoices in your personal section of the left rail. Open the
invoice and click Pay. To stop doing this after every flight, go to
`Profile → Payment methods` (web console), add a card, make it your default, then
switch Autopay on.

**Who can do this:** Students, Renters, Instructors

## Find what you owe

`Invoices` (web console) in your personal section of the left rail.

Two cards at the top: Outstanding, which is what you still owe, and Paid, which is what you
have settled to date. Below them is every invoice your school has raised for you, with its
number, date, due date, status and total. Filter by Paid or Outstanding and by date range.

![My invoices](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/my-invoices.png)

## Pay an invoice

1. **Click the invoice**

   It opens in a panel beside the list showing the line items and the total.

2. **Click Pay**

   The button carries the amount, so you can see what you are about to be charged before you
   click it.

3. **Enter your card details and pay**

   The card form belongs to Stripe, your school's payment processor. Your card number never
   touches AerScheduler.

   ![Pay invoice dialog](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/pay-invoice-dialog.png)

The invoice flips to Paid once Stripe confirms the payment, and you get a Payment received
email. If you had been grounded for unpaid invoices, paying releases you.

## Save a card

1. **Open Profile, then the Payment methods tab**

2. **Click Add card**

   The Stripe form opens. Fill it in and click Save card.

3. **Click Make default**

   The default card is the one autopay uses. If this is your only card it is already the
   default.

Your card is stored by Stripe on your school's own account, not centrally. If you fly with
two schools that both use AerScheduler, you save a card at each of them.

## Turn on autopay

With a default card saved, switch Autopay on from the same page.

New invoices raised from your flights are then charged to that card as they appear, and
land as Paid without you doing anything.

The switch stays disabled until you have a default card: "Add a card and set it as default
to turn on autopay."

If your school uses an [account ledger](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/billing/manage-a-member-account-ledger#auto-refill)
instead of invoices, the same page has **Auto-refill**. That charges the default card to
add credit on a schedule. Autopay is for invoices; auto-refill is for the account balance.

## What autopay does not pay

> **Careful:** Autopay covers invoices raised from your flights. An invoice your school types up by hand
> (a headset, a checkride fee, a book) is always sent for you to pay, whatever your autopay
> setting says. Autopay also switches itself off if you remove your default card, so add the
> replacement and set it as default before you delete the old one.

## If your school has not set up online payments

If your school has not finished its Stripe setup, the Payment methods page reads "Online
payments aren't set up" and there is nothing to add a card to. The pay dialog says the same
thing if you try from an invoice. Neither is anything you can fix from your side; settle up
with the school directly and ask them to finish it.

## Paying from the iOS app

Open Billing in the app to see your own invoices. Tap one to see its charges and details,
then tap Pay to open Stripe's hosted payment page. The same screen offers Download PDF,
Payment Methods, and View Reservation for the flight it came from.

## If your school asks for a card before you can book

Some schools switch on Require payment method before self-book. If yours has, booking
yourself in without a saved card gives you "Add a payment method before booking. Open
Payment methods in your profile, then try again."

Save a card and try the booking again. The rule does not apply when a dispatcher or
instructor books you in.

## Why two screens can show different balances

> **Careful:** The Outstanding balance card on your Home page counts invoices your school has voided. The
> Outstanding card on the Invoices page does not. When the two disagree, the Invoices page is
> the figure you actually owe.

## Related

- [How billing works](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/billing/how-billing-works): Where the numbers on your invoice come from.
- [Billing troubleshooting](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/billing/billing-troubleshooting): An invoice for an amount you did not expect.