Payment methods

The payment method determines how outstanding amounts are settled — for orders as much as for recurring fees, such as a domain’s annual renewal. It is set once for the account, not per order.

What you can choose from

Payment method	How it is billed	What you have to do
Credit card	The amount is charged automatically to the card on file.	Add the card once, then nothing.
SEPA direct debit	The amount is debited from the current account on file, about three days after the invoice is issued.	Add your account details and mandate once, then nothing.
Bank transfer	You transfer the money yourself. The payment term is stated on the invoice and is 10 days by default.	Transfer each invoice yourself.

Credit card and direct debit run automatically — once the details are on file, there is nothing left to do. With bank transfer the payment is up to you; the bank details are on every invoice.

Note

regfish does not offer PayPal. If you come across the abbreviation PP on an invoice or in a data export: it stands for advance payment, not for PayPal.

Where to change it

Account → Payment methods, direct address: dash.regfish.de/my/setting/payment

The page shows three tiles — credit card, SEPA direct debit, and bank transfer. The active payment method is marked; each tile is where you enter new details or switch to that method.

Who may do what:

• Viewing is open to anyone with the billing:read permission — the account owner, or a team member who has been given the role.
• Changing requires billing:write.
• During a support session, in which someone from the regfish team is looking at your account on your behalf, payment details cannot be changed. That is deliberate: bank details and cards should only ever be entered by whoever is signed in themselves.

Direct debit and bank transfer have to be enabled

Credit card is open to every account. Direct debit and bank transfer are not — they are enabled per account. If that has not happened for your account yet, the page reports on saving that the payment method is not enabled.

The way there is through support: request verification, then your account is reviewed and the payment method enabled. Until then, credit card is the alternative.

When you order

The order process has a step of its own for the payment method. One thing matters there:

Caution

The payment method you choose there applies not just to this order. It is used for every item in the cart — and for all future orders and fees on your account. So if you want to pay differently just this once, you are in effect changing your payment method permanently.

Where the invoices live

Under Account → Invoices (dash.regfish.de/my/billing) you will find every document — invoices, reminders, credit notes — with its status and as a PDF download. Here too the billing:read permission is enough.

Through the API

Payment methods and invoices are not part of the public API. Both are managed in the dash only. The billing:read permission does exist as an API permission all the same — it decides whether the regfish assistant may give out information about invoices.