You might decide you want to make your restaurant fully ticketed, meaning every customer must prepay for their meal before attending their booking. This would be very useful is you are a set menu style of restaurant.
You can easily do this in simpleERB with our payment rules using Stripe integration.
After setting up the Stripe integration (see more information here), you need to go in to the payment rules setting and set it up so payment is applied to every booking. See our video about payments/card capture here.
From the example payment rule image below, every booking made will request a pre-payment of £25 per person.
When booking via the widget, the customer will be directed to your payment gateway provider to securely supply either card details or to make the payment.
If booking via telephone, the customer will receive a link to make the payment and advised of the due date to secure a confirmed booking.
Telephone bookings are also sent reminder emails to prompt them to make the payment, according to the set due date.
If you decide to become a fully ticketed restaurant, we highly recommend updating your booking terms and conditions policy in simpleERB here. It would also be advisable to add a permanent customer message (see example images below) to appear to online widget booking users and ensure your staff are advising telephone bookings of the conditions.
*We currently integrate with the following payment providers to securely process and manage the payment process; Stripe and takepayments. Please be aware that the payment provider will charge you a transaction service fee on all payments processed.