If you manage orders in-store or on-the-go with the Booqable mobile app, you can also handle order payments directly from your phone. This article walks you through the available payment options and how they work.
The following article will guide you on the two ways you can take payment for your rental orders through the Booqable mobile app.
How it works
There are three ways to take payments in the Booqable mobile app:
Payment requests – send your customer a link or QR code to pay online.
Manual payments – register an offline payment (cash, bank transfer, etc.).
Direct card payments and authorizations – charge a saved payment method, or create an authorization to capture or release later.
Send a payment request
Payment requests in the Booqable mobile app can achieve the following:
Generating a QR code that the customer can scan with the smartphone camera, bringing up a Stripe payment terminal for the customer to fill in their credit card details and confirm a charge.
Creating a shareable link for the payment amount, for you to send to your customers through email, text message, or social media channels.
Login to your Booqable mobile app, and open up a new or existing order.
In the order's screen, click the payments icon, as seen in the image below.
3. Click the Register Payment button to bring up the payment options available.
4. Select Manual payment; to register a cash, bank transfer, cheque, voucher, or card payment through a provider other than Stripe.
Select Payment Request to send the customer a payment link, which they can open and pay through their credit card in their own time.
5. Click the screen with this page appears, to choose how this payment link is sent to your customer. You can edit the value of this payment link by editing the price of the order.
💡Note: You currently cannot send a payment link for a portion of the order subtotal, like you can in the browser version of your Booqable order screen.
6. If your customer is in person with you, or your team, they can scan the QR code that will appear to pay for the order immediately.
This will bring up a Stripe payment terminal on their phone, where they can enter in their credit card details, and confirm to pay. These funds will appear in the Stripe account you have connected to your Booqable account.
If your customer is not in person with you, choose to send the payment link via Email, Message, or choose Share to create a shareable link to send through social media channels.
💡Note: Once the customer has paid through the payment request, the payment due status will be automatically updated to a green 'Paid' status.
Cancel a payment request
In the order screen, click into the Payment screen (as seen below).
2. In the Payments screen, click the View payments button.
3. Click the arrow next to the latest payment request, and choose Cancel request.
Register a manual payment
1. Click into an order from the app's homepage and click Pay on the bottom on the screen.
2. Choose Manual payment from the drop down menu that will appear on the next page and set your Order amount, Security deposit amount (if any), Date, and Method.
3. Click Receive to register this payment, and you will see the order's payment status has been updated.