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title: "Taking payment for a booking"
slug: "processing-booking-payment"
updated: 2026-02-16T04:29:58Z
published: 2026-02-16T04:29:58Z
canonical: "support.bookingtimes.com/processing-booking-payment"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Taking payment for a booking

BookingTimes supports several quick and easy payment options, from credit cards to vouchers. See the article below for a brief overview of taking payment and after-payment activities, such as emailing invoices.

## Taking payment

### Steps

1. Navigate to the **Bookings** menu
2. Select the relevant booking
3. Click **Pay Now**
4. Enter payment details (Tip: click on the payment type to pre-populate the amount due. e.g. “Credit”)
5. Click **Save Payment** or **Charge Card** (for Credit)

#### Entering payment details

The payment detail screen lets you spread the payments across multiple sources. The outstanding amount to yet be allocated is displayed in red.

![httpss3-eu-west-1amazonawscomcdnsupportheroioarticle2361fc914c08-43cb-4a2d-8308-7a8272d69930.png](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/image-1686198942208.png)

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#### Entering credit card payment details

When you click the **Process Credit Card** section it will expand and a **Charge Card** button and **Save Payment** link will appear (depending on your permissions - see more information in the Taking credit card payments section below).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/Taking%20payment%20-%20credit.png)

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## Taking cash payments

### Steps

1. Enter the value in the *Cash* field
2. Click **Save Payment**

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## Taking credit card payments

### Steps

1. Enter the value in the *Credit* field
2. Expand the **Process Credit Card** box enter the card details
3. Click **Charge Card** button

**Important - difference between “Charge Card” vs “Save Payment”**

Clicking the **Save Payment** link will **not** process their credit card. Only **Charge Card** will.

**Save Payment** is generally used to record a credit payment via a physical credit card terminal. For these transactions, no Transaction ID will be assigned to the payment. They're only assigned when payment is taken through BookingTimes itself via the **Charge Card** option.

If you'd like to turn off the **Save Payment** option you can do so via **Setup > Accounts & Security > Manage Permissions** and update turn off the **Record Manual CC Payments** permission for those staff members.

  
  

![](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/Role%20permission%20-%20manual%20cc(1).png)

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## Emailing invoices

Please refer to the [Emailing an invoice](/v2/docs/emailing-an-invoice) article.

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## Tracking payment

Upon payment completion, you can see payment information at the bottom of the booking detail screen. If payment was taken by card through the BookingTimes system, the transaction ID will be visible for tracking on the bottom right.

![Taking payment credit card tx ID](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/Taking%20payment%20credit%20card%20tx%20ID.png)

The payment details can also be seen on the Client's history tab showing you all the bookings they've made and their payment status.

![Taking payment credit card history](https://cdn.document360.io/6926c75e-9b20-4216-bf9f-d7ca1df9c74f/Images/Documentation/Taking%20payment%20credit%20card%20history.png)

Finally - any online payments can be tracked if they’re still with the payment processor via the various **Payouts** reports. Please refer to [Payouts](/v2/docs/payouts#view-payouts-and-pending-payouts) article for more details.

## Related

- [Paying for a voucher and booking at the same time](/paying-for-a-voucher-and-booking-at-the-same-time-1.md)
- [Paying for multiple bookings at the same time](/paying-for-multiple-bookings-at-the-same-time-1.md)
- [Taking partial payments](/taking-partial-payments-1.md)
- [Refunding a booking or course](/processing-a-refund.md)
- [Making a booking](/making-a-booking-1.md)