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Fees and payments

Decide how people can pay you, what toys cost to borrow, and connect card payments.

Who can do this: coordinators and admins. Only an admin can connect Stripe.

This group has three parts: Payments (ways to pay and donations), Hire fee rules and Card payments.

Steps​

Choose the ways people can pay​

  1. Choose Settings in the sidebar, then Fees and payments.
  2. Under Ways to pay, switch on the ones you use:
    • Cash.
    • Card on your own reader: you take the payment on your own card machine and record it in Gizzago.
    • Pay online: joining and balances, by card through Stripe.
    • On account: members can owe a small amount and pay next time. Set Most a member can owe.
  3. Switch on Ask for a donation at the desk for one gentle prompt when someone pays, and type the Suggested amounts (£), separated by commas, for example 1, 2, 5.
  4. Switch on Offer Gift Aid on donations so donors can sign a declaration and you can claim 25p for every £1.
  5. Press Save.
What you'll see

"Payments saved". The desk's Pay panel now offers the ways you chose and your donation amounts. Gift Aid is only ever offered on donations, never on membership fees, because members get borrowing in return.

Add a hire fee rule​

A rule sets what a toy costs to borrow. Each toy uses its own rule, or the default rule.

  1. Under Hire fee rules, press Add a fee rule.
  2. Type a Name, such as "Big outdoor toy".
  3. Fill in the Charge, for example £3.50.
  4. Choose how it is Charged: Once per loan, Per week or Per day.
  5. Switch on Use as the default rule if every toy without its own rule should use this one. Only one rule can be the default.
  6. Press Add fee rule.

If there are no rules, everything is free to borrow.

Connect Stripe for card payments​

Online card payments go through Stripe, straight into your library's own Stripe account. Gizzago takes no cut. Until Stripe is connected, the status reads Not connected and online payments run in test mode: no real money moves.

  1. Sign in as an admin and open Fees and payments.
  2. Under Card payments, press Connect Stripe.
  3. Confirm it's you, with your password or passkey.
  4. Follow Stripe's own steps to connect your account, or create one.
What you'll see

When Stripe is finished, the status reads Connected. If Stripe still needs details, it reads Stripe needs more details: press Finish in Stripe. Coordinators see "Your administrator connects Stripe."