Part of the Bookings and Reservations kit
You connect your own payment provider. The money goes straight to you. We never hold it, we never decide when you get it, and we take nothing on the way through.
Your money should go to your account, not through ours
Why does it matter who holds my money?
- Whoever holds it controls it
- If your takings sit in someone else's account before they reach yours, they control your cash flow, they set your rate, and leaving costs you a payout cycle. Plenty of platforms in this category earn more from sitting in that gap than they do from the software.
- Not in the payment
- We are not in the payment. There is nothing there for us to take, and nothing to hold over you.
Do I need to be PCI compliant?
If a customer types a card number into a page you own, you are responsible for that page being secure. That means a longer compliance questionnaire, a scan of your systems every three months, and an annual test you pay someone to run.
Your customer never types a card into a page we built. That step is handled by Stripe, which means you fill in the shortest card-security form there is rather than the long one with the quarterly scans and the annual audit.
Roughly two dozen questions instead of a hundred and forty. Most platforms cannot say this, because they put the card fields on your page to keep the checkout looking tidy.
Check your own obligations with whoever handles your merchant account. We are describing the standard, not certifying anyone.
What happens if a customer pays and the slot is gone?
The card is authorised while they book and only taken once the booking is confirmed. If the slot went in those few seconds, the authorisation drops and nothing comes out.
You will not be the one ringing a customer back to explain a charge for something they never got.
What does it cost me to take payments?
Because you keep your own payment provider, you keep whatever rate you have negotiated. We show you what taking payments actually costs you as a percentage of takings, alongside everything else, rather than leaving it in a separate statement you never open.