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The Payments forum is your dedicated space to share ideas related to payments - where all things fintech come together. The forum categories:

  • Automations: Share anything we can automate in accepting or consolidating payments
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  • Financial services: Explore ideas related to Mews financing and additional financial services we offer
  • Payment methods: Propose new payment methods or enhanced functionalities for existing ones
  • Rules and policies: Share ideas about the workflows you need to support
  • Other: You have something that doesn’t fit into the other categories? Put it here

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  1. We have a lot of guests and travel agents that request to receive a link closer to the check in date, and it would be wonderful if we could schedule the payment link to be sent, rather than manually checking each outstanding payment and reaching out to the guests.

    A scheduled payment link would automate a lot of payment processes.

    16 votes
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  2. As we have learned from a support inquiry, currently VCCs are charged only at the day of arrival for certain sources (Agoda, Expedia, booking.com, hotelbeds, webbeds) instead according to the respective rate's payment policy.
    Even though it might be a reasonable default, it would be appreciated to be able to opt for policy based processing, instead of a hard-coded day of arrival charge, on a per source base, as this can off-set cash-flow quite a bit if allowed VCC charges are not processed manually (and having to deleting the scheduled payment, btw). See also communit thread at https://community.mews.com/product-best-practice-7/automatic-charging-of-virtual-credit-cards-for-prepaid-reservations-1827

    6 votes
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  3. enabling links for preauthorization (not only for CC charge)

    14 votes
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  4. We have a lot of guests who get double charged because we use the Scheduled payment option. When they get the chance to pre-pay, the system does not remove the scheduled payment, but only creates a task, so we manually have to remove it. It would be a great feature if the automatic settlement would be removed automatically instead of just making a task.

    8 votes
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  5. When a payment link has expired, we would like to have the availability to resend the payment link or extend the deadline without having to remake the entire link. This would make it easier when a guest forgets to pay by the expiry date.

    If we could extend the deadline, it would be ideal if the guest would receive an update of this as well.

    26 votes
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  6. Improvement flow request:

    Current payment automation is still being triggered at the customer profile and does not make any distinction if there is a routing rule in place or if the bill will be owned by a different customer or company.

    This can cause the wrong profile to be charged or the wrong amount due to be displayed (kiosk) because payment will sit in the Unpaid Items/Deposits section first.

    33 votes
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  7. Enhance Mews’ payment processing capabilities that allows to:

    Consume structured payment data from Booking Engine via existing API.

    Recognize external payments processed via PSP and properly flag them as settled within Mews.

    Prevent Mews from triggering settlement policies when a deposit policy is applied.

    1 vote
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  8. It is worth considering to automatically move completed "payments requests" and Mews Payment refunds to their relevant Open Bill, where the concerned stay items are already, at least.

    Currently, they all go to the Unpaid Section of the billing screen and the user is then tasked to move the items manually.

    1 vote
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  9. Currently Payment Links process payments in full.

    It would be nice to also allow properties to send requests for pre-auth. when a payment is not yet necessary to be captured.

    2 votes
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  10. When you send a payment link to a checked out guest, it would be great if the payment was posted in the same bill as the items. As it is now it openes up a new bill and we have to move them togheter and close. It would also be great it the bill could be closed.

    1 vote
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  11. In Switzerland, invoices can be issued with Qr codes. As soon as the customer pays, you have the option of downloading a confirmation from the bank in the form of a file and importing it into another program such as Mews. The bank's file contains all details such as date of payment, amount, currency, customer, etc.

    We would be pleased if Mews would offer an import of such files.

    1 vote
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  12. At the Point of Sale or Via Billing or Payment Screen: When you make a purchase in a foreign country, the payment should offer visible conversions of the transaction amount before the user posts it - especially for cash transactions.

    Real-Time Conversion: The conversion happens instantly, showing you the amount in both the local currency and your home currency.

    1 vote
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  13. I would like mews to send proforma bills to the guests automatically 24 hours/ or xxx time (to be determined per property) before departure, to avoid long time at check-out of reviewing items and solving potential problems quicker.

    2 votes
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  14. Our guests make a down payment at the moment of booking of 50%, and for the second half of the payment, we have to send out manually a payment link. It would be great if Mews could create a payment llink automaticallly (xx) weeks before arrival of the guests. It would safe a lot of time. following up on this, it would be great if there was the possibility to automatically get a task if the bill is still open 10 days before arrival.

    2 votes
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  15. Once a guest has checked out of your hotel could we have an automated email sent to the guest with an invoice? Could the invoice be sent in PDF or at least have the option of the sending format? We currently have so many calls from guests requesting Invoices.

    22 votes
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    Hello from the Mews product team. Thank you for your suggestion, we have updated your request and set it as one to be upvoted by the Mews Community. Remember you can share a link to your request so that your colleagues can also upvote your suggestion.

  16. Nightly pre-auth rules ($X.XX per night)

    3 votes
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  17. It would be useful to be able to create custom scheduled payments within the payments section, since sometimes the automated payment fails and disappears (it would be useful to create it again) and sometimes it is necessary to modify it (for example if the originating OTA activates the virtual card only in the check-in date).

    4 votes
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  18. We accept Visa and MasterCard but not Amex cards. However, if customers use their Amex card via App pay, Mews payment initially accepts and checks this and only later rejects it. In the meantime, the amount appears to have been debited from the guest, which regularly leads to difficulties

    2 votes
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  19. Payment requests can be used for custom booking engine to integrate Mews Payments and offer on session payments. The payment request can be created through the API, the ID returned can then be used to embed the webpage into the custom booking engine. It's not great for the guest journey that when the payment request is created, an email is send to the customer as the payment request webpage is also offered on session. An optional parameter for the email send would be solve this problem.

    4 votes
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