Auto Charge Retainer Invoices

Auto Charge Retainer Invoices

Why in the world does Zoho Books not allow you to automatically (or at the very least manually) charge a Retainer Invoice to a customers credit card on file?

This is a REAL pain because everytime we generate a retainer invoice we have to manally go to our merchant and charge the credit card and then apply that payment to the Retainer Invoice in Zoho.

What is the purpose of not allowing you to charge the retainer invoice like you do with a regular invoice like in Zoho Subscriptions? I don't need the extra work doing it manually and I certainly don't need to bother a customer to pay for it when they have already entered a credit card on file.

This just might end up being a deal breaker here... !!!

Is there a workaround?