Every seat paid in full before day one.
Take a deposit at booking and let attendees pay the rest over time, on a plan that ends before your start date. It runs from a checkout on your website or a deal in your CRM, with no lender and no interest.
Sound familiar?
The venue wants its deposit months out.
Your bills come due long before the last attendee has paid.
Someone booked late and the plan doesn't fit.
Five monthly payments won't land before a start date seven weeks away.
Balances are tracked in a spreadsheet.
Someone checks who's paid against the attendee list before each event.
A card declined and nobody noticed.
You find out the week before arrival, when the seat can't be resold.
Someone moved to a later date.
Now the payments made and the ones scheduled all need reworking by hand.
Card fees come off every payment.
About 2.9% of every card payment goes to the processor, on each seat you sell.
Set the final date once. The plan fits around it.
You set the deposit, the frequencies you allow and a final date. Attendees pick how many payments fit before it, so someone booking in June sees fewer payments than someone booking in March, and nobody's last payment lands after arrival.
- A deposit as a flat amount or a percent
- Weekly, every two weeks or monthly, whichever you allow
- A plan builder that embeds on your website, so attendees choose without a call
- Or a plan built from the deal in HubSpot or Pipedrive, for groups and corporate bookings
- Reminder emailed
- Payment 1 · paid by card
- Payment 2 · paid by card
- Payment 3 · card declined
- Admins notified · bank transfer offered
- Paid by bank transfer · $400.00, no card fee
Charged on schedule, with time to act.
Each payment is charged on its date to the card or bank account the attendee saved at checkout. When one fails, your admins get an email while there's still time to follow up. If someone moves to a later date, refund, split or recalculate what's left.
- Email reminders before or after each due date
- Failed-payment alerts and a daily summary for admins
- Bank transfer beside card, with no card fee on a bank transfer
- A card surcharge where your state allows it
- Each program or brand paid into its own Stripe account and books, if you need that
Questions.
Does it handle registration, rooms or seat limits?
No. Paycove handles the money: deposits, plans, reminders and the record of who has paid. Keep your booking or registration tool for rooms, seats and waitlists.
Do we need a CRM?
No. A plan can start from a plan builder on your website, a quote or invoice, or our API. If your bookings run through HubSpot or Pipedrive, it can start from the deal too. Payment plans without a CRM.
Is Paycove a lender or a buy-now-pay-later service?
No. You offer the plan yourself and you're paid as the attendee pays, into your own Stripe account. There's no credit check and no interest.
What happens when an attendee misses a payment?
Your admins get an email when a scheduled payment fails, and the attendee can pay by bank transfer from the same page. Plan payments aren't retried automatically. Whether the seat is released is your call.
What if someone cancels or moves to a later date?
You can refund a payment, split one, recalculate what's left or change a date by editing the schedule. Write your cancellation terms before you take the first deposit. How to set up a retreat payment plan.
Is a long payment plan a loan?
It can be, depending on the number of payments and whether there's a finance charge. Is a 0% plan a loan? explains the federal test. Check your own situation with counsel. This is general information, not legal advice.
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