Bill Customer with link to payment form?

I'm looking for an option (similar to what Paypal has) to request payment from a customer. The only online solution that I can come up with is to create the customer, place their order (using master password), then email them a link to the login page along w/ the login info. Still seems like a disorganized process for the customer. Are there any better options that I'm missing?

Thanks!
Audra

can you give a little more detailed description of what you are wanting to do?

I am looking to send a bill, that is easily payable on the website, to a customer who purchased something offline. I know that I can create their profile, place the items in the shopping cart, and send a link to the login page with login instructions, but it seems a bit confusing for the customer (especially since they are not necessarily expecting an online bill until I send it.)

Hmmm, maybe if I did all that but created a separate login page, where I changed the names of some of the fields, so that instead of asking for user name and password it was asking for some piece of personal information that I already know...then I could just use those pieces of information as the username and password. Not sure that I know how to do that, but it might work...

Still thinking,
Audra