Like a player scoring a deciding goal, Mews Payments is the tool that changes the game for your financial transactions. A tool that is fast, flexible and secure, just like a high-performing athlete. Imagine that Mews Payments is like your best striker, ensuring smooth payments, saving you valuable time and elevating the guest experience to champion level. Just like in competitive sport, where accuracy and strategy lead you to victory, Mews Payments helps you score points with each successful transaction.  

Depending on your accepted payment methods, your guests can make payments: 

• By card, online or through a terminal  

• In cash  

• Via an external payment type, such as a wire transfer  

In order to ensure data security, we are PCI compliant and we do not authorize card data capture in non-secure fields. When you add a payment card to a guest profile, the card is tokenized. A commission is applied to every new payment card that is added (if the same card is captured again, Mews will recognize it and you will not be charged a second time).  

Mews, like an experienced coach, aims to alleviate your workload, so that you can perform and focus on key tasks. Once your game strategies are set and in place, you will have more time to cater to and interact with your fans, i.e. your guests. Mews streamlines your daily routine, allowing you to focus on what is essential: offer remarkable experiences to your guests. ‍ 

This is why you have the option to automate payments. You can choose when payments should be triggered, the amount, and also schedule your preauthorizations.  

Deposits are also easy to manage. When you receive a pre-payment, you can create a new deposit (for the same amount as the pre-payment) and link the VAT rate to your bookable service. 

Each deposit is created with two revenue items: 

• One with a positive value, which is a pre-payment that mimics the value of all items on a bill that are to be closed with the deposit  

• One with a negative value, which mimics the payment, allowing you to settle the item without accounting for revenue and tax twice  

Please note that before you can create deposits, you need to configure your accounting categories.  

There will be times when you will need to refund your guests. A refund needs to be made via the original payment method. You will need to identify whether the initial payment was made by cash, Terminal or via Mews Payments. With Mews Payments, the refund cannot be sent to a different credit card than the one that was used in the initial payment, even if it is linked to the same profile.  

To track all your payments, your best teammate will be the Payment report. There, you have an overview of all payments, including refunds and chargebacks, that were created, cancelled or settled during a given time period.  

Keep an eye out for our next posts, we will soon talk about invoicing and billing!