Maple supports hierarchical accounts to enable parent-child billing relationships as a comprehensive solution designed to manage complex billing relationships within an organization. This mechanism is also common with reseller billing, where a software provider bills their partners for multiple deployments of the product.
This mode still enables child accounts to control and manage their payment methods, while giving visibility to the parent about subscriptions and invoicing.
For instance, a franchise company may want to view the spend of their franchisees.
Maple enables consolidating invoices from associated child accounts into a single parent invoices for ease of billing and administration.Rollup invoices can be generated at any desired frequency and net payment terms. These rollup invoices can also include parent specific charges, credits, discounts and one-time charges. Taxes for the rollup invoice are accurately determined based on the child and parent jurisdictions as well. If there are multiple currencies involved, separate invoices per currency are generated for the parent account.Hierarchical accounts can be configured and managed through the API as well.