Take your first payment

Cash and gift cards work from the moment you sign up. Cards need one thing first, and it's the single highest-value ten minutes in your setup — because connecting a payment account switches on a lot more than a button at checkout.

Connecting the account

Go to Settings → Payments. Have your business details and the bank account you want paying to hand.

What appears once it's connected

This is the part worth knowing before you decide to leave it until next week. Connecting the account is what makes all of this possible:

• Card and Card reader at checkout, alongside cash and gift card.
• Card readers, if you want a physical terminal on the desk.
• Deposits at booking and a card on file, which is what late-cancel and no-show protection needs to actually charge anything.
• Selling online — gift cards, packages and memberships from your public page.

Until then those things aren't hidden behind an upsell; they simply aren't offered, because none of them can work without somewhere for the money to go.

Where the money actually goes

Every card charge is created on your Stripe account. RewireBox never holds your takings and adds no percentage of its own on any plan — Stripe's processing fee comes out of each charge, and that's the whole story.

Stripe then pays out to your bank on your account's schedule. There's no payout list or bank balance inside RewireBox, deliberately: that lives in your Stripe account, because that's where your money is. What RewireBox answers is what you sold and what was collected; what Stripe answers is when it lands.

Then ring something up

The fastest way to know it works is to use it. Go to Sales, press New checkout, add anything, and take a payment. A sale you charge yourself a dollar for and refund afterwards tells you more than reading another page will.