Learn about Digital Payments

What are Digital Payments? 

Digital Payments allow you to accept credit card payments on your okke invoice. Enabling this feature will add a 'Pay Now' button on your invoices and invoice emails. This lets your customers pay quickly through a simple online portal. okke has partnered with Stripe to enable these instant, digital payments. Enabling Stripe can make it easier for your clients to pay you - so that you can get paid quicker. 

• Stripe has no setup fees, monthly fees, or hidden fees
• Stripe accepts all major credit cards
• Stripe offers secure payment for you and your clients

 

How much does Stripe cost? 

While connecting your Stripe account to okke is free, Stripe does charge a fee per transaction that you can pass on to your customer or carry the cost yourself.

Stripe Fees

For domestic cards: Starting April 1, 2024, the domestic card processing fee will decrease from 1.75% + A$0.30 to 1.70% + A$0.30.  
For international cards: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction

 

Video Walkthrough

 

Set up Stripe:

You can start setting up your Stripe account from within okke. 

1. Select Sales > Invoices in the side menu
2. Click the Options dropdown menu
3. Select Configure Invoices

 

4. Scroll down to Digital Payments and select Set up Digital Payments.

 

5. You will be taken to a Stripe portal, enter your email address. 
   • If you have an existing Stripe account, enter your Password to log into it
   • Or, click on Create a new account instead to make a new Stripe account

 

6. Enter your business details, payout details and support information as needed.

 

7. Review your Stripe account details and click Submit, you'll then be taken back to okke. 

 

How to automatically create Cash Flow entries when digital payments are received:

1. From the Configure Invoices menu, go to Digital Payments and enable the Record payments directly to my Cash Flow toggle.
2. You can then select which bank account and column you would like the payments to be recorded into.  

 

How to enable Digital Payments on your invoices:

1. Once you have set up Stripe Digital Payments. You will see a toggle button at the bottom of all your Invoices called Digital Payments for this invoice.

 

2. Enable the toggle button to:

• add a 'Pay Now' link to your invoice (finalise the invoice, then select Print/Download > Print Invoice to see a preview).

• add a 'Pay Now' button to the invoice email, enabling easier payments for the customer.

3. You can enable and disable Digital Payments on each invoice you create. 

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