---
title: "Invoice fees"
description: "Add a fee to every invoice based on how the customer pays — a percentage, a fixed amount, or both."
url: https://www.fenerum.com/en-DK/docs/organization/settings/invoice/invoice-fees/
updated_at: "2026-09-28T10:00:00"
---
Invoice fees let you charge your customers for the cost of collecting a payment, like a
card fee or an invoice handling fee. Fenerum adds the fee to every invoice, based on the
invoice's collection method. 

**Note: Optional feature**

Invoice fees is an optional feature and is not active by default. Please contact us at [support@fenerum.com](mailto:support@fenerum.com) if you would like to use this feature.

## Set up invoice fees

Fees are booked and taxed through a [revenue group](https://www.fenerum.com/en-DK/docs/billing/revenue-groups.md), so they
go to the right account with the right VAT. We recommend a separate revenue group for fees,
so they are booked apart from your other revenue.

1. **Create a revenue group:** Go to Revenue groups, click New revenue group, give
   it a name like "Invoice fees" and choose the revenue accounts the fees should be booked to.
1. **Choose it for invoice fees:** Go to Settings → Accounting and choose the group as
   the Invoice fee revenue group in the Invoice Fees section.
1. **Add your fees:** Go to Settings → Invoice, find Invoice Fees, click
   Configure and then Add fee:
   - Collection method: Payment Card, Invoice or Direct debit.
   - Description: the text shown on the invoice, e.g. "Card fee".
   - Percentage: a percentage of the invoice total excluding VAT.
   - Fixed amount: an amount in your accounting currency.

Each fee needs a percentage, a fixed amount, or both, and you can add one fee per collection
method. No fees are added to invoices until a revenue group is chosen.

Once saved, your fees are listed in the Invoice Fees section of Invoice Settings:

## How fees appear on the invoice

The fee is added at the bottom of the invoice, with VAT like any other line.

- A **percentage** fee is calculated on the invoice total excluding VAT, and the percentage
  is added to the description, e.g. "Card fee (2.5%)".
- A **fixed amount** is converted to the invoice currency using the exchange rate on the
  invoice date.
- If a fee has both, the invoice gets two fee lines.

Because the fee is added to every invoice, a percentage fee grows with the invoice, and it
is charged again on every renewal.

### Example

With a 2.5% fee for Payment Card and a 100.00 DKK fee for Invoice, a 400.00 DKK
subscription is invoiced like this:

| Paid by         | Description     | Price           |
| --------------- | --------------- | --------------- |
| Payment Card    | Basic           | 400.00          |
|                 | Card fee (2.5%) | 10.00           |
| Invoice         | Basic           | 400.00          |
|                 | Invoice fee     | 100.00          |

Invoice previews include the fee, so you can check the total before the invoice is created.

## When no fee is added

Fees are only added to regular invoices, not to:

- Credit notes
- [Reminder fee](https://www.fenerum.com/en-DK/docs/organization/settings/invoice/reminder-fees.md) invoices
- Invoices with a total of zero or less
- Invoices charged to a reseller
- Invoices whose collection method has no fee
- Accounts that are exempt from invoice fees

## Exempting an account

To stop charging fees to a specific account, edit the account and clear
**Is charged invoice fees** under the advanced options. New accounts are charged invoice
fees by default.

In the API, this is the `is_charged_invoice_fees` field on the [Account](https://www.fenerum.com/en-DK/docs/api/account.md).

## Crediting an invoice

When you credit an invoice, its fee lines are credited too and booked to the same
accounts as the original fee.

**Note: Check your local rules**

Rules on charging fees for card payments and invoices vary between countries. Check your
local rules and customer agreements before you add invoice fees.

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