Hi everyone,
Quick question — does anyone know if there’s a way to extract a payment link from Mews without having to send it via email first? I’d like to share it with guests through WhatsApp instead.
Also, if anyone has experience with this, do you know if it would still be GDPR compliant to send the link that way?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best answer by MattJones
Only specific way to get the url is via the API as its encoded through a scripting placeholder in the email…. API guide here: Payments | Connector API - so to answer the query, no there is no native way in mews to copy and paste the payment link without emailing first.
You would need to essentially create an API call to get the payment link, transmit it to whatsapp to send to the guest. As far as aware there are no huge GDPR considerations for this in terms of asking someone to pay via a link HOWEVER bear in mind that the payment link may give access to the whole reservation as it is linked to the guest portal - I cannot recall if it does, but this is something to consider and check (just send yourself a payment link and see if it gives access to the whole reservation). Also ensure privacy policy etc allows for this use of their phone number. Some integrations may already do this so worth having a look at available integrations that have the whatsapp facility as they may already do this.
+1Only specific way to get the url is via the API as its encoded through a scripting placeholder in the email…. API guide here: Payments | Connector API - so to answer the query, no there is no native way in mews to copy and paste the payment link without emailing first.
You would need to essentially create an API call to get the payment link, transmit it to whatsapp to send to the guest. As far as aware there are no huge GDPR considerations for this in terms of asking someone to pay via a link HOWEVER bear in mind that the payment link may give access to the whole reservation as it is linked to the guest portal - I cannot recall if it does, but this is something to consider and check (just send yourself a payment link and see if it gives access to the whole reservation). Also ensure privacy policy etc allows for this use of their phone number. Some integrations may already do this so worth having a look at available integrations that have the whatsapp facility as they may already do this.
Hi everyone,
Quick question — does anyone know if there’s a way to extract a payment link from Mews without having to send it via email first? I’d like to share it with guests through WhatsApp instead.
Also, if anyone has experience with this, do you know if it would still be GDPR compliant to send the link that way?
Thanks a lot in advance!
I don’t have experience with this myself, but I think it should be possible through the API and/or with Zapier.
+3The Payment request API (according to the documentation) only allows to create a request or get a list of created requests, but the API response does not contain an URL for the request. Unfortunately, I doubt that it is possible to get this link in any other way than sending it via the mews mailing system…
Kind regards,
JP.
+1The Payment request API (according to the documentation) only allows to create a request or get a list of created requests, but the API response does not contain an URL for the request. Unfortunately, I doubt that it is possible to get this link in any other way than sending it via the mews mailing system…
Kind regards,
JP.
Payment request URL is within the Data object of the response to the API call. Would have to create, then call for the list of requests and get the URL from the data object i believe.
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