Plannit's payment schedules give you the flexibility to offer an automated cash discount to those clients that choose a payment method outside of Plannit Pay and to charge a convenience fee to recoup the processing fees if they use Plannit Pay.

Here are the steps:

To automate the process, we recommend that you update your price catalog to reflect the price with a mark-up equivalent to the convenience fee. For instance, if the item is $100 and you have a convenience fee of 3%, the new price in the catalog should be $103.

To automate the process, all you have to do is send quotes where your client will be asked to choose a lower amount if (s)he pays cash or a slightly higher amount if paid with a credit card.

Here is how a typical payment calendar would look like if you want to take advantage of the convenience fee option:

Create a first payment calendar with a cash discount as follows (the example illustrated below is for a 30% payment due upon approval and the balance at the end of the job, but it works for any type of calendar):

The client will receive the quote through the portal as usual and will see the following, as per the image below. If (s)he chooses the option with the discount, it will offer ONLY those payment methods you had selected in the calendar (see below):

And when the client receives the invoice upon approval, this will be the message, because Plannit Pay will not be offered:

If the client selects the second payment calendar, here is what appears:

And the payment window will then be as follows, since the payment calendar offered these options:

In Plannit, you are always be able to see what payment calendar has been chosen by the client to properly answer their questions in the payment calendar section of the quote, as seen below: