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# Continuous Billing during the Retry Period

For subscriptions (AutoBills) with a Merchant Accepted Payment (MAP) payment method, you can continue generating invoices and accruing balance throughout the retry period. Unless restricted by `InvoiceLifeCycle` Decision Rules, invoices can be generated and posted according to the schedule regardless of the payment status of prior invoices.

Continuous Billing during Retry is also available, as a global configuration option, for non MAP payment methods on AutoBills. When enabled, at the scheduled billing date the new invoice will be posted and the associated balance will accrue against the subscription’s Accounts Receivable balance according to the schedule, regardless of the payment collection status of prior invoices. Each scheduled billing will pursue retry using the existing capabilities, but Subscribe will ensure that the oldest unpaid invoice is always pursued first—preventing a situation where a later period is paid and entitled with an earlier period still in question.

To take full advantage of this feature, the grace period should be greater than the billing cycle. For example, if the billing cycle is monthly, set the grace period to two months, or to however months you want. If the grace period is not longer than the billing cycle, this option will have no meaningful effect.

Use this option only after careful consideration. For more information, and to enable this global configuration option, contact Vindicia Client Support.

The behavior of invoice-paid (MAP) AutoBills is not affected by enabling this option for non MAP payment methods.

If you later decide to disable this option, prior (default) behavior will resume—for non-MAP paid AutoBills, future invoices will not be generated or leave the `Open` status until the unpaid prior invoice is settled.

**Parent topic:**[Modifying AutoBills](../topics/Modifying_AutoBills)


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