Overview 

This tutorial explains what the advantages are to using a merchant account that is integrated with StudioCloud as well as how you can use a merchant account that isn't integrated.

Advantages To Using Integrated Merchant Accounts

StudioCloud has developed a tight integration with our partner merchant accounts which provides the following features:

• ePayments
• Manually sending ePayments to clients by email or text message would not be available
• Client Portal Payments
• Having a client pay payment plays or outstanding invoice balances from the client portal would not be available
• CloudForm Payments
• Having clients select items from a cloudform and pay for them in the cloudform would not be available
• CloudBooking Payments
• Having clients book a session and pay either the session fee or the entire session would not be available.
• Payment Plan's Payments
• Automatically charging a clients saved credit card based on the payment due dates would not be available
• Saving Credit Cards
• Manually saving a client's credit card for later processing would not be available
• Automatically saving a client's credit card for later processing when they pay a session fee would not be available
• Gift Cards
• Create gift cards for clients with physical gift cards would not be available
• Mobile App Payments
• Processing credit cards using StudioCloud's mobile app
• Refund Payments
• Refunding credit card payments would not be available