Managing client billing just got easier. 

Say goodbye to pinging your clients about monthly subscription payments. Today, we’re proud to announce the arrival of client payments for everyone on Freelancer and Agency Workspace plans. Now, you can invite your client to securely add their credit card to cover costs for their site, including new site plans, bandwidth overages, and other site add-ons. 

As part of this launch, we’re also introducing seamless transfers. Sites built and hosted in your Freelancer or Agency Workspace and paid for using client payments, can now be transferred to your client’s Workspace without affecting key site settings.

Client payments is especially valuable if your client prefers giving you full control to manage and maintain their site in your own Workspace. This means you can spend more time building while Webflow handles the billing. If your client eventually wants full ownership of their site in their own Workspace, you can use seamless transfers to move it over without affecting the site plan.

‍Here’s a summary of what you can expect:

Key Benefits

• Delegate billing to clients: Your clients can securely add their credit card on file to pay for new site subscriptions, additional bandwidth, and other site add-ons like Webflow Analyze, Optimize, Localization, etc. 
• Maintain control: Once your client adds their card on file, you can keep managing the site’s design and hosting while delegating billing to your client. You can control their access level, but only they can cancel or upgrade their site plan.
• Benefits for Certified Partners: If you’re part of the Certified Partner Program, your partner code will be automatically applied to any new site plan in your Freelancer or Agency Workspace using client payments, allowing you to earn rewards for any of those sites. 
• Simplify site transfers: With seamless transfers, sites can move from your Workspace to your clients’ Workspace without affecting site settings or pricing plans.

Enabling client payments: 

• For new sites: When creating a new site, simply invite your client to set up client payments. Once they accept, their credit card will be securely added to cover site costs.
• For existing paid plans: Downgrade the site to the Starter plan temporarily. Be sure to coordinate a time to do this with your client to minimize downtime. Then, go to the Plans page, and enable client payments.

Initiating seamless transfers:

• Ensure that client payments is set up for the site you’d like to transfer.
• Select the relevant site, go to Billing, then choose Transfer site
• Enter your client’s email address. They’ll receive an invitation in Webflow and via email to accept the transfer request. 
• Once the client accepts, they’ll be prompted to reauthorize Webflow apps to maintain integrations. Then, the site will appear in your client’s Workspace! 

Learn more about the ins and outs of using client payments and seamless transfers by checking out this Help Center article.

For the full story about the new feature and what this means for agencies and freelancers, check out this blog post.