Take card payments with Stripe
Connect your own Stripe account once and every invoice gets a Pay button — on Free too.
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Clients can pay your invoices by card on every plan, including Free. Payments land in your own Stripe account and pay out to your bank; PaloWorks never holds the money.
- In Settings, find “Get paid online” and choose “Connect Stripe”.
- Complete Stripe’s own sign-up. If you stop part-way, “Finish Stripe setup” picks up where you left off.
- When “Accepting payments” and “Payouts to your bank” both show as ready, your invoices offer a Pay button.
PaloWorks fee when a client pays online: Free 1%, Pro 0.5%, Studio 0.1% — Stripe's processing fees are extra, and the money goes straight to your Stripe account. The fee is the same whether the client pays by card or by bank debit, because Stripe sets one fee per checkout. The details are in the Terms of Service.
“Open Stripe dashboard” takes you to Stripe for payouts and for refunding a client. Two exceptions happen in PaloWorks: a payment the client has disputed can be refunded from Reports → Disputes, and money you gave back for a payment you recorded by hand is noted on its invoice with “Record a refund you sent back”.
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- Getting paidSplit the fee: payment schedules, deposits, and prepaid balancesBill a job in slices — on signature, on a date, on delivery — take a deposit, or draw invoices down from money paid up front.
- Getting paidAutomatic invoice remindersSet follow-ups for unpaid invoices, pause them when needed, and keep payment status current.
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