Accepting Payments Online

September 08, 2023

Updated September 8, 2023

Practice Better allows you to accept online and in-person payments with our Practice Better Payments feature. You can process and collect payments easily within the portal or in person with our dedicated payments terminal. You also have the option to require payment on your booking page and automate installment payments. You can set up your Practice Better Payments account on the portal by entering your credentials.

Set up Practice Better Payments to collect payments easily or link your Square account

Practice Better Payments enables you to accept, manage, and track your in-person and online payments right in Practice Better. Learn about Practice Better Payments on our FAQ page.

Once you’ve set up your payments account on Practice Better, as a practitioner, you’ll be able to add client credit card information into records and even process payments directly from your portal.

Create an invoice to bill a card saved on file

Learn more about billing a card on file.

You can also collect payments or deposits during the booking process by enabling a setting that requires payment on your booking page. Clients are then required to make a payment to successfully request a session with you.

Configuring your payment settings for your services
Requiring payments on your booking page

Learn how to require payments at the time of booking.

If you’re on the Pro, Plus, or Team plans, you can create automated payment plans that will automatically process your clients’ monthly installments based on the payment schedule that you’ve set up. You won’t have to remember to manually charge your client’s credit card anymore.

Set up your payment plan to automatically charge your client’s credit card

Accepting online payments through Practice Better will also make your clients’ lives a little easier too! Clients will be able to pay their invoices directly from their invoice notification emails or from the Client Portal.

Example of an Invoice Notification email

Clients can also enter and store their credit card information in the Client Portal to streamline their payment process simply by adding their billing information once.

Adding billing information from the Client Portal

If you want to consolidate and streamline your payment processes, we highly recommend Practice Better Payments. This feature will allow you to collect payments within one application in various ways and simplify the payment procedure for your clients.


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