Deferred collection for one-off client Direct Debits

[Healthpay]

Continuing the discussion from New options to defer GoCardless Collections:

@Glenn

Today we’ve made a couple of enhancements to our GoCardless integration. The basis of these changes is to allow a payment request to be made against a Direct Debit pre-authorisation today but scheduled at a specific date in the future.

This is a truly wonderful feature that will make my life so much easier! Can I make an enhancement request though please? I have one client who needs two invoices each month, both over £200, so I want to collect the total balance in one GC payment to minimise the charges. So I can’t use the feature to collect the DD from the invoice menu as this would generate two debits - instead I use the collect funds option from the direct debit page. However there is no option to defer here. Could there be please?

[Glenn]

The idea of batching together payments was discussed elsewhere but is not easy for us to implement. Adding a deferred collection date for one-off client DDs is much simpler and something we will look at in the next few weeks.

[Glenn]

Just a quick one to let you know that the ability to defer one-off collections against a pre-authorisation has now been implemented: