# Add a payment term

Create a term from one of the four due date rules, then make it the default, turn it off, or delete it.

Adding a term is choosing a rule and, for Net Days, a number. The name fills itself in from those two, so most terms take one field of actual typing.

![The payment term form, with a required Name field and a required Due date rule list, and a day count field that appears for the Net Days rule.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/storefront/payment-terms/term-form.png)

*Choose the rule first: the name fills itself in from it.*

- Open Storefront Settings and select **Payment Terms**.
- Select **Term**.
- Choose a **Due date rule**. The hint beside each says when it falls due.
- For a Net Days rule, enter the number of days.
- Check the **Name**, which is suggested from the rule and the day count, and change it if your customers call it something else.
- Save the term.

> **Note:**
>
> **The name stops following the rule once you type your own**
>
> Change the rule or the day count and the suggested name keeps up. Type a name of your own and it stays put from then on, because the assumption is that you meant it.

## A rule that is already taken

Due on Receipt, Due End of the Month and Due End of Next Month can each exist only once, so a rule already in use is not offered again. Net Days is always available, because the day count makes each one distinct.

## Make a term the default

Open the actions menu on an active term and select **Set as default**. The star moves to it, and new documents start on it.

## Turn a term off

Select **Deactivate** in the actions menu. The term stays in the list and stops being offered on new documents; anything already using it is untouched. **Activate** puts it back.

> **Tip:**
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> Prefer deactivating to deleting. A term that stops being offered leaves every document that used it readable, which matters when somebody asks in eighteen months why an invoice was due when it was.

## Edit or delete a term

**Edit** reopens the form. **Delete** removes the term and asks you to confirm.