cardinal

set up a recurring billing schedule for a member, retainer, or monthly service.

for seasonal customers (lawn care over winter) or members on temporary leave. pause beats cancel — keeps history intact and resume is one tap.

(coming soon) cardinal phase 1 only handles the schedule itself — billing, dunning, and churn analytics ship later. this article previews how the mrr + churn view will work.

(coming soon) cardinal phase 1 only handles the schedule itself — billing, dunning, and churn analytics ship later. this article previews how dunning will work once the cardinal → pawpaw cron-fanout lights up.

cardinal handles recurring money. crawdad handles recurring jobs. junebug handles recurring appointments. picking the right one keeps the schedule from being tracked in two places.

phase 1 ships the schedule itself. cron-driven occurrence-fanout to pawpaw is on the way — once it's live, every cycle mints a pawpaw invoice and runs it through stripe automatically.

cardinal supports four kinds. picking the right one tells the suite which other module fires the actual occurrence on cycle day.

for customers who cancelled or signed up by mistake. delete removes the schedule entirely. past invoices it generated stay on the books — only the schedule goes.

for a customer who renegotiated terms ("$300 → $350 starting next month") or wants a different cadence ("monthly → quarterly"). edit updates the schedule going forward.

for businesses with a mix — billing-kind retainers alongside job-kind weekly visits. the kind filter narrows the list to one type.

the subscription list orders by next-run date so the most-imminent cycle is on top. great for a quick "what's billing this week?" scan.