This article aims to help you understand the different settings of the Automated payments and how best to set them up.

Airbnb always takes the payments from the guests and then transfers the money into your bank account. With Booking.com and VRBO/Home Away however the picture is different. Booking.com allows you to choose whether you will be taking the payments yourself or if they will take care of it. For VRBO/Home Away the case is different. They require you to start making the payments. Once you set up your Stripe account and have connected it to FantasticStay you can create automated payments to do the work for you.

To start go to Apps->Automated payments and then Add new rule.

Now the settings depend on your preferences but here are some settings we recommend.

For the Accommodation payments we recommend that you use 2 rules.

First one is :

Payment type : Accommodation

Charge amount : Custom percentage and choose what % that is

Schedule to : "At new accepted reservation" or a few days after

Choose to be notified on : Success or Failure and type in the relevant email (or emails) that you want to be notified. This way you will always be aware if everything is okay with the payments.

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Depending on how you handle the payments with Booking.com you might also want to add the filter for Source. If Booking.com is going to handle the payments for you choose to charge guests only from Home Away and Direct reservations.