Split payment allows customers the opportunity to split the cost of the booking with one another. Split payment is available for single bookings, multiple bookings in a single transaction, and package bookings. Split payment can be done during the Checkout process on both your website and on your Xola Dashboard.
What's covered in this article:
- How to enable
- How to set up
- Split Pay for check out
- Split Pay for back office
- Split Pay functions after the booking is made
How to enable
- Navigate to the Xola App Store by clicking the App Store tab in the upper right hand corner.
- Locate Split Payment and select the App Store tile.
- Click the green INSTALL button
If you need help in getting access to this feature, you can reach out to support@xola.com
How to set up
- Navigate to Products > Listings > Global Settings > Checkout Preferences. Here, you’ll find the option to enable Split Payment.
- Decide when payment is due:
- This setting will allow other groups to split payment and add themselves to the booking up until your desired cutoff time. If you’d like to allow split payment all the way until your event’s start time, put “0” in as your value.
- You have the option to automatically charge the organizer’s credit card for any outstanding balance at the cutoff time.
- NOTE: This feature will only work when the customer is using the Checkout, and will not charge the card automatically if the booking was made in the Back Office.
Note: If you choose not to enable this option, the booking will have a balance due for any amount that has not been paid. If there is a balance on the booking, an email will be sent to the organizer 24 hours before the event letting them know the remaining amount is due.
When you choose to have a payment deadline and charge the credit card on file the customer gets the following reminder email:
Note: If your customer's card fails to charge for the final amount, you and your customer will be sent an email to notify you of this.
Split Pay for Checkout
Once enabled, an option will appear on the Payment Details screen of checkout that allows your customers to Split Payment.
Customers must enter their credit card details in order to proceed with a Split Payment. This information is saved to the booking in Xola, just as if they had paid normally.
After confirming their card details, they will be presented with the option to choose how much of the booking they are paying for. Customers can either enter an arbitrary amount or use the help calculate link.
In the help calculate workflow, customers can calculate a suggested payment amount either by quantity or by even split. This window will save an amount for the customer, but will not charge them yet.
By Quantity:
Even Split:
Note: When using Split Pay the organizer's card will show a pending charge for the full amount and will be removed as soon as any payment has been made by a guest. They will see a warning of this upon Checkout: "Your credit card statement may show a pending charge for the full booking value of $xx.xx. This pending charge will be removed as soon as any payment has been made by you or your guests. The time taken to remove this charge will vary by bank.”
Split Pay in back office
An option will appear on the Payment Details screen of checkout that allows you to Split Payment for bookings made in-person or over the phone.
Once checked it will allow you the option to collect the payment amount now or make the reservation without payment.
If you proceed with taking the collect payment amount now toggle, you will hit proceed to payment button and will be presented with the option to choose how much of the booking they are paying for. You can either enter an arbitrary amount or use the help calculate link.
Note: If you have another guest that is wanting to be added to this booking, you would select Pay and Add Another Guest or if not, you select Pay and Finish
If you proceed with making the reservation with no payment taken, you will enter in credit card details and select the Reserve button.
Note: When using Split Pay the organizer's card will show a pending charge for the full amount and will be removed as soon as any payment has been made by a guest. They will see a warning of this upon Checkout: "Your credit card statement may show a pending charge for the full booking value of $xx.xx. This pending charge will be removed as soon as any payment has been made by you or your guests. The time taken to remove this charge will vary by bank.”
Split pay functions after the booking is made
In addition to a Confirmation email, the customer will receive a Booking Invitation email. The Booking Invitation Email contains a button that allows anyone to Split Payment and join the booking. Customers are instructed to forward this email to anyone they would like to Split Payment with. This functions the same way with both per person and per outing pricing.
When another customer joins the booking, they will be prompted to fill out questionnaires and sign waivers (if enabled). They will also receive confirmation, reminder, and review emails.
Split Payment will also create a new customer record for each customer that pays (you can find these in the Customers tab).
Additional booked groups will appear on the Purchases tab, underneath the Organizer (the customer that made the original booking).
You can also add guests to the Group by going to the Purchases tab and selecting the +Add to group button. This allows you to take customer's information, credit card details, and help them pay for their part of the booking.
In addition by clicking on the 3 dots by the guest's name you can: message the individual guest, rebook the individual guest, send that guest's invitation email, resend the confirmation email and remove a guest from the booking (you cannot remove the Organizer from a booking, only the guests)
Removing a guest
If a guest calls you and needs to be removed from a split pay booking, you can remove them from the booking and return the payment by clicking on the 3 dots next to the guest name and click Remove from Booking
This will ask you to return the payment :
Once you click Remove, this person will still appear on the booking details page, but now under Removed
After removing from a booking, by clicking the 3 dots next to the guest's name you can message the guest, rebook the guest, and even add the guest back to the booking if needed.
Note: Bookings that are made with the Split Pay feature cannot be switched to a new experience. The booking itself would need to be canceled and the customer rebooked.