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# How to send Live Invoice Statements to clients
> Learn how to send Live Invoice Statements to clients in ServiceM8.
Automatically send a live statement to your customers every week, two weeks, or at the start of the month using the Live Statements automation.
## First, turn on the Live Statements automation
Ensure you've activated the Automations Add-on in Settings > ServiceM8 Add-ons. Then go to Settings > Automation, and enable Live Statements.
## Set the frequency at which you would like statements to be sent
## Configure your email template
Once the Live Statements automation is enabled, statements will be sent to the customers for which you enable the "Send Live Statements" option.
## To activate Live Statements for a client, open their Client card. In the Billing Details tab, tick "Send Live Statements"
## You can also activate Live Statements for several clients simultaneously, in Clients
Individually or bulk select clients using the check boxes, then click Actions > Apply Live Statements.
On each Monday, second Monday or on the 1st of each month (depending on the frequency you set), a Live Statement link will be sent out to clients with the "Send Live Statements" option, who have outstanding invoices.
For invoices to appear on the Live Statement:
* the job status must be Complete;
* the invoice must be outstanding i.e. unpaid; and
* the invoice must have been sent to the client via email, **including** the \{document} merge field which converts to an online invoice link **OR** the invoice has been Approved. [See here for more info.](/help-center/servicem8-add-ons/automation/how-to-add-invoices-to-live-statements)
Once paid, invoices will continue displaying as 'Paid' on the statement for 14 days, before automatically being removed.
## How to see processed & scheduled Live Statement automations
To see which clients have recently been sent their Live Statement, as well as scheduled sends, go to Settings > Automation, and click the linked values in the Scheduled & Processed columns.
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While Live Statements send automatically to enabled clients, you can also link to their URL Live Statement in manual follow up communication with your clients using the \{statement} merge field in your email & SMS templates — [see here for more info.](/help-center/servicem8-add-ons/automation/how-to-send-clients-a-link-to-their-live-statement)