What is an ad hoc payment?
An ad hoc payment is an individual customer payment collected outside a recurring or standard billing schedule. It covers situations such as an outstanding balance, an additional charge or service fee, a customer-requested payment, an invoice-related collection or an exceptional amount that falls outside the normal automated process.
Can Bonza manage recurring payments?
Yes. Recurring payment management covers what has been collected, what is current, what is expected next and what may need attention. It is not full subscription billing: there are no pricing plans, usage or metered billing, proration or product catalogs.
Does Bonza Payments process payments itself?
No. Configured payment gateways perform the relevant payment processing. Bonza is the Salesforce-native payment-management layer above them, and is not positioned as a payment gateway, a bank, an acquirer, an accounting platform or an ERP. Bonza does not hold customer money.
Does Bonza automatically choose the best payment gateway?
No. There is no smart routing, no least-cost routing, no automatic failover, no cascading and no automatic retry through another gateway. Gateway selection is configured by the business. What Bonza provides is one payment-management experience regardless of which configured gateway performed the processing.
Can customers make one-time payments through a customer-facing experience?
Where the customer payment experience is configured, a customer can make an individual payment through the available payment journey, and the resulting payment is recorded in the same Salesforce customer payment context as any other.
Can Bonza show outstanding, due and overdue payments?
Yes, and the distinction between the three matters. Outstanding describes unresolved value regardless of timing. Due means the relevant date has arrived. Overdue means it has passed. Attention adds operational priority on top. An amount can be outstanding without being due, and the amount does not change when the timing does.