Take deposits at booking time

When a Pro plan Booklink account enables deposits on a service, the booking flow on the public booking page adds a payment step. The client picks the service, team member, and time slot, enters their contact details, and is redirected to their chosen gateway (Yoco, Paystack, PayFast, or iKhokha) to pay either the deposit amount or the full service price in ZAR. Once the gateway reports the payment as successful, Booklink auto-confirms the booking, writes it to the provider's Google Calendar, and sends the client their confirmation email. If the client abandons payment, the time slot is released for someone else. When multi-service bookings are enabled, the deposits of all selected services are combined into a single payment. Booklink never stores card details. All card data stays on the gateway's PCI-DSS compliant infrastructure. Gateway fees are paid directly to Yoco, Paystack, PayFast, or iKhokha, and Booklink does not take a commission on bookings. On offerings where the business allows it, clients can instead choose to pay by bank transfer: they see the business's bank details and a payment reference, and the booking is held until the business marks it paid. For bookings the business creates itself, Booklink can email the client a payment link with the amount due. Every booking keeps a list of its payments, online and recorded by hand (cash, card machine, EFT or other), with the total, the amount paid and the balance due.