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title: "Group billing for multiple subscriptions"
slug: "clone-facturation-groupée-de-plusieurs-abonnements-béta"
updated: 2026-02-17T13:38:40Z
published: 2026-02-17T13:38:40Z
canonical: "help.frisbii.com/clone-facturation-groupée-de-plusieurs-abonnements-béta"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Group billing for multiple subscriptions
Jose, the Sales Director, is concerned about the current situation and wonders if Cloud Kicks should diversify its business. He meets the whole team to share ideas.
They unanimously decide to create two new products that fit perfectly with the company, to perpetuate the activity. The two new products are:
- A sports and sportswear fashion magazine to be called *Sports under the Cloud*.
- A box in which customers will be able to find various sports items (clothing, accessories, trainers, etc.). This will be called the *Kicks Box*.
But Candace and Linda are wondering because, even if they already know how to generate a subscription [from scratch or from another object](/frisbii-app/docs/en/abonnements-création-ex-nihilo-ou-à-partir-dun-autre-objet) or [from a quotation](/frisbii-app/docs/en/offres-générer-un-abonnement) or [an opportunity](/frisbii-app/docs/en/opportunités-générer-un-abonnement), the magazine will be a monthly subscription but the box will be sold as a monthly, quarterly, four-monthly or six-monthly subscription... Vijay, the developer of Cloud Kicks, reassures them because he has been following the Frisbii newsletters: since the Winter'21 release, they can group several subscriptions to generate a global invoice (1 invoice for several subscriptions). This grouping can be very useful for different situations. Great! Candace and Linda will be able to get started and there will no longer be any obstacles to their new activities.
## Reminder of the basic functioning of the subscription
Subscriptions can be created [from scratch or from another object](/frisbii-app/docs/en/abonnements-création-ex-nihilo-ou-à-partir-dun-autre-objet) or [from a quotation](/frisbii-app/docs/en/offres-générer-un-abonnement) or [an opportunity](/frisbii-app/docs/en/opportunités-générer-un-abonnement). Subscription line items, which are products that are invoiced on a recurring basis, can be added, on a subscription billing schedule generated according to an invoicing rhythm.
You can find more details in this article: [Field dictionary](/frisbii-app/docs/en/abonnements-dictionnaire-des-champs).
## Explanation of the functioning of the grouping feature
At the request of the customer or by decision of the billing entity, subscriptions can be grouped from a certain date to a certain date, or indefinitely. This information is stored on a Grouping type change order created on each grouped subscription. Each grouped subscription is associated with the grouping subscription via an change order record on which a new search field to the Subscription object has been created. Bundled subscriptions are autonomous: one can unbundle or terminate one, and keep the grouping on the others. A value in a field using a picklist on the Subscription object allows to determine the grouping subscriptions from the others and allows, via the dynamic form, to display the right information according to the type of subscription. This is useful for blocking the issuing of invoice(s) on grouped subscriptions. A **Group** button allows you to sort of "cut" the line items on the grouped subscriptions and "paste" them on the grouping subscription.
## The different use cases of this grouping feature
This feature allows the following use cases to be managed:
- A customer subscribes to several subscriptions which have separate cycles (the terms of the contract are potentially different) but which must be the subject of a single invoice. Ex: JacksonMiniJazzDanseMontpellier has subscribed to Sports under the Cloud as well as Kicks Box, but only wants to receive a single invoice for both.
- The entity billed is not the same as the entities that have subscribed.
E.g.: the subsidiaries of a group subscribe to contracts but it is the parent company that pays for them.
The parent company, JacksonMiniJazzDanseFrance, does not want to receive 70 invoices each month but only one invoice grouping together all the invoice lines for all the subsidiaries (JacksonMiniJazzDanseMontpellier, JacksonMiniJazzDanseLyon, etc.).
- Within the same subscription, products are invoiced based on different periodicities.
Ex: JacksonMiniJazzDanseMontpellier has a quarterly subscription to the Kicks Box and a monthly subscription to Sports under the Cloud. So they have a quarterly payment on top of that.
This case can be handled by two grouped subscriptions (one for the monthly and one for the quarterly) and one grouping.
Warning : However, the subscription grouping feature has not been specifically designed for this case. Thus, for all the events in the subscription life cycle (change order, interruption, renewal), the work will be multiplied by the number of grouped records.
Frisbii is currently studying the management of invoicing periodicities directly at the level of the subscription line items in order to provide a much more practical solution to this use case.
Warning : grouping is incompatible with billing regularisation.
## Setup of a grouping subscription
Reminder: we advise you to test these procedures in a sandbox test organisation.
#### Steps
1. Create subscriptions (e.g. AB-00000182 monthly and AB-00000183 quarterly) with their subscription items.
1. Use the buttons to **Activate** them and **Create schedules** on both subscriptions.
2. Click ont the **Subscriptions** tab to go back to the list view (**All**) of subscriptions.
3. Select the subscriptions and click on **Merge**:
1. The screen flow **Grouping of subscriptions in a list view** opens. Please click on **Next**.
2. Select the option **Create a new group subscription** and click on **Next**.
3. Fill in the fields according to your needs and click on **Next**.
4. Choose a start and end date for the grouping:
5. Click on **Finish**.
6. Go back to the **Subscriptions** tab. You can see your new grouping subscription (AB-00000184).
7. Open the new grouping subscription and click on the button **Create schedule** and then on **Confirm**.
8. By clicking on the associated list **Invoices** you will see a schedule with amounts at 0:
9. Go back to the grouping subscription (ex. AB-00000184). Activate the subscription with the **Activate** button and then click on **Confirm**.
10. The button **Grouping of lines** is now available. Use it continue.
11. Click on the **Confirm** button.
12. Click the **Grouping of Lines** button again to reopen the window and then click **Generate Grouped Subscription Schedules** (Générer les échéanciers des abonnements).
Then you get a first invoice for the grouped subscription. The other invoices are generated but do not yet contain any invoice lines. They are therefore at 0 EUR.
| **BEWARE:** (1) **Invoices can only be issued from the grouping subscription**. The issuing of invoices from grouped subscriptions is not yet blocked but it will be in a future update. There **is no point in issuing an invoice from a grouped subscription** since the purpose of the grouping functionality is to issue an invoice from a subscription that bundles multiple grouped subscriptions. (2) All changes must be handled on the grouped subscriptions. (3) After the first invoice has been issued, you can click on the **Grouping lines** button from the grouping subscription. The amount of the second invoice is calculated and you can issue it afterwards. So, each month, the calculation of the amount of the next invoice can be done in this way. |
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## What the feature does not yet include
- Bottom line discounts of the grouped subscriptions to the invoice lines on the grouping subscription.
- Creation of PDF of the grouping subscription with details of the grouped subscriptions.
- Deep clone on grouped subscription with possibility to copy also the grouping change order.
- User interface for :
- Ungroup in mass
- Generate mass grouping schedules
- Find and group subscriptions directly from a grouping subscription.
- Manage interruption.
- Send invoices by email taking into account the contact of the grouped subscriptions
- Add a link between the invoices of the grouping subscription and the grouped subscriptions.