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## Resource: wix-billing-backend



## Article: Introduction

## Article Link: https://dev.wix.com/docs/velo/apis/wix-billing-backend/introduction.md

## Article Content:

# Introduction
The Wix billing API allows you to manage billing of your customers, using invoices and price quotes.     

Learn more about how you can [create and manage invoices](https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-invoices-about-wix-invoices)
and [create and manage price quotes](https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-price-quotes-creating-and-sending-price-quotes-to-clients).

 With the Wix billing APIs, you can:
 - Manage [invoices](/invoices/introduction).
 - Manage [price quotes](/price-quotes/introduction).
 - Create custom handling in response to backend [invoice events](wix-billing-backend/events/introduction).
 - Create custom handling in response to backend [price quote events](wix-billing-backend/events/introduction).
 
 To use the Wix billing APIs, import `wixBillingBackend` from the `wix-billing-backend` module:

   ```javascript
   import wixBillingBackend from 'wix-billing-backend';
   ```

## Before you begin

 It’s important to note the following points before starting to code:    

 Invoices is an online payment request system and not an accounting service. 
 In order to accept payments from customers in Wix Invoices, you must set up a [payment method](https://support.wix.com/en/article/accepting-payments-an-overview).
 
## Terminology

- **Price Quotes**: Wix Price Quotes allows you to send professional price quotes to potential customers.
  You can convert price quotes into invoices. 

- **Invoices**: Wix Invoices is a payment request system which allows you to create, send, track and manage invoices (requests for payment), as well as receive payments online.