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Handle prepayments, deposits and giftcards
Handle prepayments, deposits and giftcards

Your guests have different kinds of prepaid deposits online and you want to deduct this from their bill before payment

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โ€‹Prepayments in general
We recommend the following flows but you have to verify with your accountant how they went it to work:

  1. Create a tender type called "prepayments"

  2. Create the product with a 0 price and add the term "prepaid" to the product name

  3. You can now select the product and check it out under the tender type called prepayments. The rest of the bill can then be paid by card/cash/giftcard.

  4. Alternatively you can also deduct the giftcard from the bill with our product discount feature in example 1


Depending on how you work you can think about one of the two below methods:

Example 1: Presenting the guest with a bill before actual payment
In scenarios where your guests have prepaid a deposit online e.g. when they made their reservation you want to easily present them with a bill where they clearly can see on the bill that their deposit have been deducted from their bill:
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Example 2: Recording prepayments upon payment
In scenarios where your guests have prepaid a deposit online but they do not tell you before they have to pay - you can deduct it and print a bill for them:

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