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Booking and deposits

The deposit holds the booking.

Your customer picks an open time on your website. It is held while they pay the deposit, and confirmed when the payment clears.

Start See a booking held

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A sample booking

One booking, in your customer's own steps

Your customer picks an open time.
Pick a time1 of 3

Hold a time. You will pay a deposit on the next screen. The rest is settled with us.

Start
- 8:00 AM
- 9:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
Ends about 11:00 AM
The time is held while they finish.

Your details2 of 3

When
Saturday · 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Party
2 guests · 2 hr

NameEmailPhone

Holding your time…
Two people can never book the same last opening.
Another customer, a moment later

Pick a time1 of 3

Hold a time. You will pay a deposit on the next screen. The rest is settled with us.
That time was just taken. Here is what is still open.
- 8:00 AM
- 9:00 AM
- 10:00 AM
The deposit holds the booking.

Review and pay deposit3 of 3

When
Saturday · 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Session total
$120.00
Due now
$30.00 deposit

The deposit comes off your session total. You pay the rest with us.

Booking policy Your policy, shown in full.

We are holding this time for you while you check out. Card payment is on Stripe's secure page.

Agree and pay depositTaking you to secure payment…
Confirmed when the payment clears.

Confirming your booking…

Your payment is in. We are locking in your time.

Your booking

Saturday · 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Status: Confirmed

Then the confirmation, under your name.

The confirmation email · a sample

FromYour business

Your booking is confirmed

When: Saturday · 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Party: 2 people

Our policy, as agreed at booking:

Your booking policy, in full.

Reply to this email to reach us.

It goes out under your business's name, and a reply comes to you. The booking is confirmed when the payment clears, not when a browser says so, so it lands even if a phone dies at checkout.

What you set, and what comes to you.

Every step above is live on a real business's own website. The words in each window are the booking window's own, lightly edited; the times and amounts are a sample.

Nothing extra for your customer.

They pay your price and nothing on top: no booking fee, no surcharge. The card is typed only into Stripe's secure page, so your website and BeargrassAI never see a card number.
Your policy, before they pay.

The window shows your booking policy in full, and your customer agrees to it before paying the deposit. Without a policy, it takes no money.
The rest, when they arrive.

They pay the rest with you when they arrive. A deposit comes off the bill at the counter; if it covers the visit, nothing more is charged. How the counter works
Changes come to you.

Your customer can't move or cancel a booking online. They call or email you, you move it at the counter, and they get a fresh confirmation for the new time.
The whole place, for a group.

A group can book the whole place for a set time, with a deposit. The deposit holds the date, and you call them to settle the rest.
Time at your own place.

It books time at your place. If you go out to your customers instead, we work out together how bookings should come in, and how booking reaches your website is part of that conversation.

Commerce · what it costs

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

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

4.6% for the 406.

Bookings and payments on your own Stripe, built for your business as a project. The setup and the quote are worked out together, in a conversation.

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/booking/: the page I was reading: Booking and deposits.
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.

The deposit holds the booking.

One booking, in your customer's own steps

Then the confirmation, under your name.

What you set, and what comes to you.

Nothing extra for your customer.

Your policy, before they pay.

The rest, when they arrive.

Changes come to you.

The whole place, for a group.

Time at your own place.

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

Start with the Directory. Go further when you are ready.