Online Booking Deposit Option

It is possible to configure the online booking system to provide an option for the customer to pay either a full amount or a deposit.

The amount of the deposit, is calculated by either fixed amounts or percentages of the booking services.

For example:

• Course - £100 fixed amount

• Registration Fee - 100%

• Accommodation placement fee - 100%

The ‘control' settings are based on each Service.

There is also a rule setting on Portal Settings (whether to include all bookings, or just the first bookings) and the number of days prior to start the deposit is required.

Configuration can include how the deposit is calculated, and how many days prior to a course starting the deposit is allowed as an option - for example, if the course starts shortly, deposit is not offered.

Deposit Calculation Type

There is a portal site wide setting on each ‘site' which controls how a deposit is calculated.

First Course/Accommodation

The first course and first accommodation (chronologically) are used to calculate the deposit amount.

All Bookings

All bookings are used to determine the deposit amount

Deposit Calculation Value

On each Service there are two fields - Portal Deposit Type and Portal Deposit Qty.

Portal Deposit Type is either Amount or Percent

Portal Deposit Qty is the value of the Amount or Percent

Default Deposit

In the event any of the input services have a NULL Deposit Type and/or Value, then the total value of that Booking will be used to calculate the Deposit.

This can be used, for example, to require full payment of first course and/or first accommodation bookings.