Payments
Activate Stripe, create plans, record manual payments and keep track of what is due.
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Card payments
- Enable online payments with Stripe and track your payouts Connect your academy's Stripe account from Settings, read each verification status and check in Payouts how much money reaches your bank and when.
- How to create a subscription plan Create online or cash plans from Payments > Plans: price with VAT, billing frequency, enrollment fee, trial days, family pricing and class limits.
- Sell day passes and one-time courses A day pass provides access on the selected date in the academy's time zone. It ends when that calendar day ends; it does not necessarily represent just one class. A one-time plan sells a For: Owners, Teachers
- Create class vouchers and approve requests Open Student Billing > Vouchers. A voucher type defines the product's conditions; an assigned voucher is one student's actual balance. Creating a type does not automatically give anyone For: Owners, Teachers
- Create discount codes for plans and day passes Create percentage or fixed-amount discount codes with a duration, a usage cap and an expiry date, and learn where students enter them at checkout.
- Collect payments by link or QR code and share signup checkout MatGoat distinguishes a payment link for an existing student from the academy's public signup-and-payment link. The first starts from a specific student record; the second begins
- Assign, change or remove a student's plan Open the student's profile and select the payments tab. Review the current plan, payment method and any pending change before choosing another option. Assigning access, recording a payment
- Set the first charge: full month, proration or payment at reception An administrator configures these options in Settings > Payment options. A subscription's first amount can differ from its normal fee because of the joining date, enrollment fee, trial or
- Require an active plan to book classes An administrator can open Settings > Payment options and choose what happens when a student tries to register without the required coverage. Before enabling blocking, review the assignments
Manual payments
- Payment Control: the monthly payments grid Open Student Billing and select the payments tab. The grid combines students and months to review fees, covered periods and outstanding issues. You need permission to register payments; an For: Owners, Teachers
- Record a cash, bank transfer or Bizum payment Open Student Billing and select Register Payment. Teachers need permission to register payments. The complete form lets you explain what was collected and which period or item it covers, For: Owners, Teachers
- Receipts, Stripe invoices and payment exports MatGoat brings together manually recorded payments and Stripe collections, but their documents serve different purposes. Before downloading or sharing information, identify the transaction, For: Owners, Teachers
- Track pending payments and automatic reminders Open Student Billing > Pending Payments. This page requires permission to register payments and brings together situations needing review: unpaid fees, students without plans, expired plans For: Owners, Teachers
- Collect annual fees for insurance, registration and other charges From the payment-control page, open Annual fees. This tool manages items such as insurance or annual registration with their own dates and charges. Paying an annual fee does not replace For: Owners, Teachers
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