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  • Tyson Andrews
  • July 25, 2025

Running your business on NetSuite gives you a powerful foundation—but when it comes to customer payments, that foundation can feel disconnected. The typical payment experience is spread across multiple systems: order confirmations in one email, invoice PDFs in another, and payment links sent separately through a third-party processor. Customers are expected to jump between tools, manage logins, and figure out where to go to complete a transaction. This fragmented process not only slows down payments but also creates unnecessary friction for your customers and manual overhead for your team.

Online Pages offers a more efficient alternative. It’s a complete extension of your NetSuite environment—built to show real-time order details, surface open invoices, and collect payments on the spot, all without logins or third-party tools. With one secure page, everything happens in one place, seamlessly connected to your NetSuite environment.

In this post, we’ll explore how Online Pages eliminates common inefficiencies in the post-sale process, improves the customer experience, and provides businesses with a streamlined, secure way to manage payments through a unified NetSuite payment portal.

The Challenge

Many NetSuite users face the same challenge: while NetSuite serves as a powerful back-office system, sharing information with customers or collecting payments typically involves stitching together various tools.

Customers may receive a confirmation email with no way to check live order status. Teams often send invoices as PDFs without providing a direct path to payment. When they include payment links, those links typically route users to a third-party platform disconnected from NetSuite. As a result, finance teams manually reconcile transactions and respond to support requests about invoices, due dates, or order status.

These extra steps don’t just delay payments—they erode trust, introduce human error, and pull your team away from higher-value work.

The Solution: A Centralized NetSuite Payment Portal

Online Pages solves these challenges by creating a unified payment experience that eliminates the need for external platforms or customer center logins. Instead, you can provide customers with a secure, one-click link to a live portal page that includes:

  • Open invoices with line-item detail and real-time status
  • Embedded payment forms powered by Braintree
  • Downloadable PDF copies of invoices, packing slips, and receipts
  • Linked order information for context and transparency

The portal connects to NetSuite in real time, ensuring the information is always accurate. You maintain control over branding, data visibility, and workflow logic. And with token-based access, customers don’t need credentials—just a secure link that brings them directly to their personalized view.

From Viewing to Paying: A Portal That Drives Action

Beyond visibility, Online Pages empowers users to take immediate action. You can customize each page to include only the most relevant data, tailored to the individual customer or account. Everything is presented clearly and intuitively—on desktop or mobile—so users can complete their transaction quickly and without confusion.

Internally, this reduces the volume of invoice-related support requests and eliminates the need for manual reconciliation. Payments are automatically recorded in NetSuite and matched to the correct invoices, which means your finance team doesn’t need to review a payment dashboard from another platform or chase down updates.

Streamlining the Order-to-Cash Cycle

What makes Online Pages especially powerful is how it supports the entire order-to-cash cycle—not just payments. Once an order is fulfilled, the portal can surface the related invoice automatically. From there, the customer receives an email link that takes them straight to a live, branded page where they can view their invoice and submit payment on the spot.

This not only improves cash flow but also reduces delays between order completion and invoice collection. By eliminating unnecessary steps and disconnected systems, you can accelerate revenue recognition, reduce Days Sales Outstanding, and improve the overall experience for both your customers and your team.

Departments across the business benefit:

  • Sales teams spend less time chasing unpaid invoices
  • Finance gains better visibility and faster reconciliation
  • Support handles fewer billing questions and document requests

It’s a complete, self-contained portal experience that enhances every stage after the sale.

No Integrations Needed—Just One System That Works

One of the biggest advantages of Online Pages is what it doesn’t require. There’s no need to maintain a separate customer portal, custom integrations, or third-party payment gateways.

Everything runs directly through your NetSuite environment using saved searches, standard records, and native workflows. You can build pages quickly using drag-and-drop tools and configure logic based on roles, customer segments, or transaction status.

Online Pages also supports PCI-compliant Braintree integration, allowing you to collect payments securely through tokenized fields without handling raw card data. This ensures a safe, seamless experience for customers and a simplified compliance model for your business.

And because customers access their page through secure, token-based links, there’s no need to manage usernames, passwords, or role permissions—another layer of complexity removed.

Why Online Pages Is the NetSuite Payment Portal You’ve Been Looking For

The process of paying an invoice should be easy. Yet for many businesses, it remains one of the most fragmented parts of the customer journey. Between static documents, disjointed systems, and unnecessary manual follow-ups, even a simple payment can become a multi-step effort for everyone involved.

Online Pages simplifies this experience by providing a single destination where customers can take meaningful action. Users can review their order history, download invoices, and submit payments without external tools or logging into NetSuite. By consolidating these interactions into one portal, businesses improve payment turnaround, reduce support overhead, and present a more cohesive and professional brand experience.

Rather than bolting together multiple solutions to handle what should be a single workflow, Online Pages provides the structure and flexibility to manage everything from order to payment in one place. It’s a modern, practical approach to streamlining post-sale interactions—built specifically for companies that want to get more out of NetSuite. Contact us to learn how you can install this solution in your NetSuite environment.

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