Eliminate cash transactions & reduce guest damage to your hotel or vacation rental using Charge Automation’s security deposit collection software with pre-authorization.
Automate self check-in online, collect guest info & documents, accept credit card payments & allow selfie ID verification using contactless check-in software for hotels & vacation rentals.
Offer personalized upsells during check-in
Reduce guest queues by
using online check-in
Speed up check-in & booking
processes
Collect guest documents &
signatures online
Collect payments & security
deposit during check-in
Elevate your property security and increase operations efficiency with scheduled damage deposits authorizations that can apply to any booking channel.
Collect partial or full security deposit
Release pre authorization hold
Extend pre authorization hold
Send auto payment reminders to guests
Our damage deposit software integrates with a wide range of hospitality software ensuring that you can access guest data needed and automatically update your PMS, OTA & payment gateway.
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Security deposit is collected in a form of authorization (hold). The maximum holding period for Stripe users is 28 days for Visa and 30 days for Discover/MasterCard/Amex or 7 days for other cards.
Once a booking ended, the Security deposit is automatically released 3 days after check out.
In ChargeAutomation, there are 3 ways of collecting security deposit
By manually sending authorization request link to your customer.
By creating a re-usable authorization link and sharing it to anyone.
By creating auto payment rule for automatic collection.
Our superior detection eliminates fraudulent chargebacks entirely. Zero fraud guaranteed.
Short-term rental companies that use upselling software from ChargeAutomation include CozySuites, PMI, UpStay & Carzi Contactless and many more.
You can define rules, schedule dates and the amount of security deposit authorization for each property or booking channel.
If you detect any damage to the property once the guest has left, you may opt to capture funds from the security deposit authorization. This can be initiated directly through ChargeAutomation.
You can capture the whole amount or a partial amount and leave a brief description for your records.
Security deposit authorizations are automatically returned 3 days after check out.
ChargeAutomation will continue to send automatic notifications to the guest, reminding them of the requirement to provide valid credit card details.
ChargeAutomation is GDPR and PCI-compliant solution. Personal data security is the cornerstone of our operations.
With security deposit authorizations by ChargeAutomation you save on processing fees from your payment gateway. Only a fraction of those fees for using ChargeAutomation’s security deposit software.
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