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# Automated Invoice Summaries

Invoice summaries are sent to your customers by email and include an overview of all their outstanding invoices. The goal is to remind customers about their outstanding invoices to ensure you are paid for the products and services you have provided and improve your collection rates. To create invoice email summaries for any outstanding invoices, follow these simple steps:

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Important:** Invoice summaries and reminders are only sent when a customer has an outstanding balance. If a customer's balance is zero, no summary or reminder email will be sent — there are no outstanding invoices to display.
{% endhint %}

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1. Log in to your [Alternative Payments Dashboard](https://app.alternativepayments.io/).
2. Click on Automations and then [Email Notifications](https://app.alternativepayments.io/dashboard/email-notifications).
3. Select the [Invoice Summaries](https://app.alternativepayments.io/dashboard/email-notifications?pageTab=summaries) option.
4. Click on [+ New summary](https://app.alternativepayments.io/dashboard/email-notifications/new-summary).
5. Choose the frequency at which you want the invoice summaries to be sent.
6. Set the starting date of your invoice summaries and either use the Default template or [create a new template](/automations/email-notifications-and-reminders/creating-custom-email-templates.md).
7. That's it! You're all set with your invoice summary. Feel free to add any exceptions.

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{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:** Invoices enrolled in Auto-Pay are marked with an Auto-Pay icon in the Invoice Summary Email
{% endhint %}

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