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# Use Customer Billing or set Property Billing

Every property starts with Customer Billing. That means the payment terms, tax-exempt status, autopay, processing-fee waiver, billing address, and payment methods set on the customer apply to the property too.

If a property needs different billing details, open the **Billing** panel and choose **Set Property Billing**. The form starts with the customer's current settings so you only need to change what is different. The billing section title shows which settings are in effect: **Customer Billing** or **Property Billing**.

Use **Edit Customer Billing** or **Edit Property Billing** to change the settings currently in effect. To switch a property back, choose **Use Customer Billing** and confirm. This removes the billing settings saved specifically for the property; future customer billing changes will apply to it again.

If your business allows processing-fee waivers, both forms also offer **Never charge processing fees**, which makes new invoices start with fees waived. When you turn it on and open invoices still charge fees, Save asks whether to waive fees on those open invoices too; otherwise invoices that already exist don't change. Like payment terms, Property Billing's choice overrides the customer's, and **Set Property Billing** starts from the customer's current choice. See [Waive processing fees on an invoice](/revenue/invoices/waive-processing-fees-on-an-invoice.md).

If your business has Purchase Order capture turned on (the Custom Fields tab under Settings → Quotes or Settings → Invoicing), both forms also offer a **Default PO Number** that prefills onto new quotes and invoices — the property-level value overrides the customer's. See [Custom fields and PO numbers on quotes and invoices](/revenue/quotes/custom-fields-and-po-numbers-on-quotes-and-invoices.md).

The property's Billing panel also holds a **Purchase Orders** section showing the saved purchase orders usable on that property — its own plus the customer-wide ones (see [Put a customer purchase order on an invoice](/revenue/invoices/put-a-customer-purchase-order-on-an-invoice.md)). This section only appears when your business has Purchase Order capture turned on and you have View Invoice; adding or editing a purchase order also needs Create Invoice. Collapsed, the Billing row shows a short summary of the terms, custom prices, and purchase orders in effect.

You can ask Essential whether a property uses Customer Billing or Property Billing, and what those terms are.

> **Where to find it:** On the property page, expand Billing, then open the menu in Customer Billing or Property Billing

## Related guides

* [Add or manage contacts on a property](/customers-and-work/properties/add-or-manage-contacts-on-a-property.md)
* [Adding an asset group to a property](/customers-and-work/properties/adding-an-asset-group-to-a-property.md)
* [Create a property](/customers-and-work/properties/create-a-property.md)
* [Move a property to another customer](/customers-and-work/properties/move-a-property-to-another-customer.md)
* [Property files and who can see them](/customers-and-work/properties/property-files-and-who-can-see-them.md)


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