How your party rental booking website works for a customer
On your party rental booking website, a customer starts with their ZIP. They add rentals, pick an open day, and add the party's times and address. Check my date shows the whole price and the deposit due now. They fill in their details, sign your rental agreement and pay the deposit on Stripe's secure page.
0:00Start with a ZIP. Your booking page asks What is your ZIP code? The customer taps Show my rentals and sees what you can deliver to them.
0:07Add a rental. They tap Add on what they want for the party.
0:10Pick an open day. The calendar shows which days are open for what's in the cart. A booked day is crossed out, so they pick another.
0:18Add the times and place. They add when the party starts and ends, and the address where it is.
0:23Check the date.Check my date shows the whole price before they pay: the rentals, delivery, the total and the deposit due now.
0:31Add their details. Their name, email and phone, and two questions: what you're setting up on, and how they heard about you.
0:38Sign the agreement. Your rental agreement is in the form, with their date in it. They type their name to sign and tick that they agree.
0:46Book the date.Book this date holds the date while they pay the deposit, and shows until when.
0:51Pay the deposit. The deposit link shows what's due. Pay now takes their card on Stripe's secure page, and the money goes to your own Stripe account.
Good to know
The ZIP decides what shows. Customers see what you can deliver to them. The page says which ZIP it's showing, with Change beside it.
The hold has an end time. After Book this date, the page shows the booking number and when the hold ends. The deposit link is emailed to the customer too. Your Hold unpaid bookings for rule sets how long. Your online booking rules shows it.
The rest comes later. Under the deposit, the price panel says the remaining amount is due before the rental.
Papalocal's share of the deposit. Papalocal keeps 1.25% of it, and Stripe takes its processing fee. The rest goes to your own Stripe account. The full price is under What it costs.
Pinewood Party Rentals, the customer, the address and the prices in the video are made up.
Written with AI from this video's script and screens.
Your booking page is one part of running your rental company on Papalocal.
The everything app. As simple as you want it, or as complete as you allow it to be.
Looking for an online booking system with a deposit? Your booking page sits beside your items, rules, delivery fees and website.
The plan holds, in one place:
Your customer list: each lead and customer, with their quotes and jobs on one page
Quotes, jobs and schedule
Invoices and pay links
Your website, on a domain you own
Google Business Profile sync, for your first location
Reviews: links, QR codes and an embed
Time clock, team chat and training
The same account holds your own side too: music, books, messages, your money and your people. Some of it has paid upgrades.
Free to sign up, no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them.
Once you turn the plan on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee. It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Papalocal's founder, Garret Merkley, has started 7 local service businesses in 16 years. He bought one, sold one and closed some.
Book this date holds the date while the customer pays the deposit. Pay now takes their card on Stripe's secure page, and the money goes to your own Stripe account.
Can customers sign the party rental contract online?
Yes. Your rental agreement is in the booking form with their date in it. They type their name to sign and tick that they agree.
What does the customer see before paying?
Check my date shows the whole price: the rentals, delivery, the total and the deposit due now.
What if the day they want is booked?
It's crossed out on the calendar, so they pick another day.
What does it cost?
It's free to sign up, with no card. Your account and your business page have no monthly charge. One thing is on from the start: AI replies to your reviews, $0.15 each plus AI usage. You can pause them. The plan starts only when you turn it on: $30 a month (one person; each added employee is $10 a month), plus 1.25% of payments your customers make through Papalocal, plus Stripe's processing fee.
How is it billed, and can I cancel?
It's billed daily from a prepaid balance. Once your card is saved, it's charged a top-up within the hour, and again each time the balance falls under a month's charges plus 15%. You choose the top-up amount ($25 or more; $100 until you change it). You can cancel the plan online after its first 30 days; cancel any add-ons on it first.
Will Papalocal find me customers?
No. Papalocal gives you the tools. Finding customers is your work.
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