Enabling this feature will add a step in the manuscript workflow to prepare and send out an invoice for the manuscript processing charge (APC).
Once the paper is accepted for publication, the system will prompt the handling editor of the manuscript to fill in and save an APC invoice that will be sent out to the billing contact of that manuscript submission (it might be the author or another contact).
JAMS additionally supports review vouchers that can be applied at this stage deducting the voucher’s amount from the invoice total.
Any user with the Billing Manager role can then track open invoices, send them out for payment and follow up on unpaid invoices.
The billing contact receives a link to the invoice online in JAMS as well a pdf version of the invoice that can be downloaded. The invoice layout can be configured to provide any information regarding payment terms and remittance, including links to Paypal or Stripe for a fully streamlined payment processing.