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Payments for Booking Facilities & Deposits

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What platform do you use to support payments for booking facilities & deposits? Currently we seem to be reliant on BACs payments & Cheques which seems sub-optimial. Is it realistic to expect this to be online service and vast majority logging in paying etc (getting automated receipt/invoice etc)?
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A simple way would be to set up a paypal account and then intergrate it into your pc website You can take amounts online from credit or debit cards and issue invoices. Paypal does the coding for putting onto your website as well. A small fee is payable on transactions and monies can be transferred into the PC bank account or back to hirers in the matter of deposits returned, and can be kept seperate from PC accounts if required.
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There are a number of packages used by village halls to automate their processes, such as Hallmaster and LemonBooking. Both of these are easy to use and well-supported.
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Hallmaster is a fantastic package; we use it a lot.
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