A wooden counter by a window at last light, a card reader and a tablet on it, the mountains outside

Bookings and payments on your own Stripe.

Bookings with a deposit on your own website, and cards at your counter. Every card payment lands in a Stripe account in your name.

Start See it work

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A sample week of bookings

Your week, open on your own website.
Customers book a time and put a deposit down.
Two people can never book the same opening.

When the payment clears

Confirmed when the payment clears, even if a phone dies at checkout.

A sample confirmation

From: your business

Confirmed

Your booking is confirmed

What: A private room
When: Saturday, 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Party: 6 people

Reply to this email to reach us.

A sample. It goes out under your business's name, and replies come to you.

Where the money goes

Every card payment lands in your own Stripe account.

Online · when they book

The deposit, on your website.

At your counter · on the day

The rest, on a card reader. The deposit is already counted, and tips are available.

In your name

Your Stripe account

The card goes to Stripe, never to your site or to us.

Then

Stripe pays it out to your bank, on your account's own schedule.

Our part

Only our fee comes to us. We checked that against Stripe's own records.

Each part, in full

Four questions owners ask next.

The rate

What Commerce costs

4.6% + 30¢ on each card payment, on domestic cards.

4.6% for the 406.

Cards from other countries cost more, and that extra is passed through. Cash carries no fee.

No monthly fee for Commerce. Our part comes out of each card payment, so there is no second bill for the software.
Your customer pays nothing extra. Cash and tax carry none of our part. Tips are available.

What it costs, in full

Built for your business, as a project.

Commerce starts with a conversation: what you sell, how you take bookings today, and whether you need online booking, the counter, or both. Then we set it up with you.

Online booking is for time at your own place: a room, a bay, the whole venue. If you go out to your customers, we work out together how booking should work. How it reaches your website is part of that conversation too.

It runs today at a real business: bookings with deposits on its own website, cards at its counter, and the money in its own Stripe account.

The setup and the quote are worked out together, in a conversation.

Commerce is part of our custom work, with the builds we quote per job.

Talk to us

Talk to your AI about this

Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whatever you use. It brings this page with it, and tells your AI where to read the rest.

I'm looking at BeargrassAI (https://beargrassai.com/). BeargrassAI helps owner-led rural small businesses get found and described truthfully, by people and by AI. One person, Mark Ulett, in Columbia Falls, Montana. Help me decide whether it fits my business.

Read before you answer. Open each link yourself; do not guess what it says, and tell me if one will not open.

1. https://beargrassai.com/commerce/: the page I was reading: Commerce.
2. https://beargrassai.com/llms.txt: who BeargrassAI is, when it fits, every price and the facts.
3. https://beargrassai.com/llms-full.txt: every page in full, if you can read a long file.
4. https://beargrassai.com/pricing/: what each thing costs and what it includes.
5. https://validated.directory/b/beargrassai: BeargrassAI's own record in its directory, the kind of record a business gets.
6. https://beargrassai.com/directory/: the Directory, step one.
7. https://beargrassai.com/scout/: Scout, step two.
8. https://beargrassai.com/diy/: DIY, step three: the kit, hosting and the tools.
9. https://beargrassai.com/custom/: custom work, bookings and payments.
10. https://beargrassai.com/about/: who builds it and answers the phone.

How to weigh it:
- Check each claim against the page it comes from, and name the page.
- Work out what it would cost me in a year from the pricing page, not from memory.
- Look at BeargrassAI's own directory record as an example of what my business would get.
- Say plainly if it does not fit, or if something simpler or free would do.

First, ask me three or four questions about my business: what I do, the towns I serve, who my customers are, and what they ask before they call. Wait for my answers. Do not guess.

Then tell me, in plain words:

One. Whether BeargrassAI fits my business, and which of its offers, if any.
Two. What it would cost me in the first year.
Three. What I would have afterwards that I do not have now.
Four. Anything you could not check, and how I could check it.

Nothing is sent anywhere. It goes to your clipboard.