Having access to an easy to use credit card system has been a great bonus to so many of our customers. Being able to accept credit cards for your online and telephone bookings makes payment simple for you and your customer. It’s easy to take balance payments and make any refunds if you need to all at the click of a button. No more chasing cheques or waiting for bank transfers Stripe does it all for you, click, click….
5 Reasons to use Stripe for card payments
- Quick and easy to setup – Go to the PAY tab in your freetobook account
- Low Cost – In Europe Stripe charges 1.4% for European cards
- Secure – PCI compliance fitted as standard, no lengthy forms to complete
- No monthly charges – Stripe charge per transaction, simple pay-as-you-go
- 92% approval rating – freetobook customers using Stripe love it
Stripe is a faster and a more secure online payment system which enables you to take card payments without the need for a merchant account or a payment gateway.
Freetobook introduced Stripe in 2015 and since then we have had astonishingly high feedback about the service. In fact we are so sure it will be good for your business that we offer a 30 day money back guarantee on the freetobook integration charge.
Still not convinced that Stripe will work for your business ? Take a look at what fellow freetobookers are saying. In Nov 2016 we asked those of you using Stripe to rate the service, results below…. A staggering 92% of the users are very happy with the service.
Here is some of the amazing feedback we received:
“Absolutely love it (Stripe). It has changed my life. It is so easy, great when people cancel, works fantastic… Much less admin for me. It’s a win, win all the way.” – Holly Tree Cottage
“Easy to use, keeps card numbers without being exposed to them and can rebill for balances and deposits. Easy to send payment links for people to make deposits and have a card on file.” – Zen Yard Guest House
“Fantastic! It (Stripe) has turned my business around. No need to chase for a deposit and no need to ask guests for payment in cash. Without being able to take a card payment, I previously lost out on business, as many companies book my accommodation for their employees.” – Home Farm Barn
“So easy to set up…seamlessly integrated with freetobook and offers all of the functionality and features that our bank offered for less cost. 5-stars!” – Terragong 1858
“Using it about 4 months now love it all automatic, and you know if cards securing reservations are valid cards, you can also charge guest stays using the system. Well done freetobook! It so easy to set up and maintain even older users like me have mastered it simply like all freetobook products we use…” – Avlon House B&B
There is nothing more that we can say after those testimonials from freetobookers, other than giving you our guarantee that you will love using Stripe. If not, we offer a full refund within 30 days of paying your subscription. Freetobook charges an annual integration fee of £89 for providing you with this great payment functionality, all of which can be accessed through your freetobook account.
Get your freetobook Stripe integration today !! Click the PAY tab when logged in to your freetobook account.
Biggest issue with Stripe for me is that is cannot process any amount with over 8 digits. Especially currencies such as Rupiah. eg an Indonesian rupiah amount of idr 1,000,000.00 (usd $74.00) cannot be processed. One nights accommodation is typically higher than this. So Stripe is useless in many asian countries.
That is a good point I think Stripe should be able to deal with big numbers in currency.
We are just in the process of purchasing our holiday let and will be using Freetobook on our website. The Stripe testimonials on here look good but there trustpilot reviews are terrible so feeling a bit unsure. What about Paypal – can I use it with Freetobook and what have people’s experiences been like with that? Any thoughts / comments welcome.
Our experience is that PayPal is expensive and has far less functionality. I can only speak for our customers and 92% of the ones using our Stripe integration say it “works well for our business”, PayPal doesn’t have the integration functionality so we don’t have any figures for them.
Have been using stripe for over a year and have been very happy with it. I use it to verify cards and then take payment on POS when guests arrive.
Recently had a few issues with stripe saying the card was declined but trying the card number on the POS it works fine. I contacted stripe and they say the customers card or bank doesn’t allow this kind of payment (not sure what that means). So now i have 4 card alerts on my ftb account. A little annoying, I will keep using stripe and monitor the situation.