Bookings
Chase unpaid payment links
Set how often guests are reminded to pay, what happens at the deadline, and manage unpaid links on Outstanding Payments.
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In short: set reminder timing and the deadline action in Payment Reminders, and chase unpaid links on Outstanding Payments.
Set the reminders
- Go to Bookings › Main Settings › Payment Reminders, then choose your venue.
- Under Reminder cadence, set the three reminders in minutes, hours or days before the deadline.
- Under When the deadline passes, pick Cancel booking and email guest, Cancel booking, notify staff only (you call the guest) or Mark payment expired, leave booking active (you decide).
- Click Save changes.
Manage unpaid links
- Go to Bookings › Outstanding Payments. It starts on All venues, so pick one in the venue filter to narrow it.
- Open Payment actions on the guest's row.
- Choose Resend reminder now, Extend deadline or Cancel payment link.
- To extend, pick the New deadline and click Extend deadline. Pending reminders are rescheduled against the new deadline.
Good to know
- When the deadline passes only applies to links added with Auto-cancel the booking if not paid by deadline ticked.
- Defaults are 3 days, 1 day and 2 hours before the deadline. Reset to defaults puts them back.
- The same reminders cover deposits, card-on-file requests and pre-order payments.
- FOH, Bookings Manager, Marketing and IT cannot see Outstanding Payments or Payment Reminders.
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