Money up front, sent automatically: describe your deposit rule and Taskade Genesis builds a booking app that generates a hosted Stripe Checkout link the moment a request is confirmed, tracks who has paid, and chases the ones who have not. No payment plugin, no custom server, no invoice you have to remember to raise.
The Quick Apps Booking is a live Taskade Genesis app you can use right on this page. It is a guided booking flow rather than a deposit tracker, so treat it as the base: press "Use this app" to clone it in about ten seconds, then add the deposit amount, the payment status, and the Stripe step described below. You use a finished app before you commit.
The payment step is real product, not a promise. The Stripe Checkout Session action takes a price, line item, or product ID and returns a hosted Stripe URL your customer pays on. It runs inside a normal automation, which means the deposit link can be triggered by a form submission, a status change, or a button. There is no backend to build and no webhook plumbing for the success screen.
What the build gives you: a deposit amount per service, a payment status field on every booking (Unpaid, Link Sent, Paid, Refunded), an automation that fires the Checkout link when you confirm, a reminder that re-sends the link if it goes unpaid after a set delay, and a clear table of money committed against money received.
The same data renders across the views you need:
- Table view for deposit amount, payment status, and balance owed, sortable by who has not paid
- Board view to move bookings through Unpaid, Link Sent, and Paid columns
- Calendar view to see which of this week's bookings are still unsecured
- Plus List, Mind Map, Gantt, and Org Chart across the rest of the 7 project views
Automations run the money. A field update trigger on status Confirmed calls the Stripe Checkout action and emails the link through Gmail. A delay action waits 24 hours, then a filter checks whether payment status is still Link Sent and sends one polite nudge. The Stripe integration pulls payment events back in so the record marks itself Paid. Across 100+ bidirectional integrations, Stripe and Gmail pull in while Slack and SMS push out. Automations are a paid-plan capability; the Free plan includes 10 flow runs in total so you can prove the flow before upgrading.
The AI agents in the app carry 34 built-in tools including persistent memory and file analysis. The Deposits agent drafts the payment request in your tone, adapts it for a first-time customer versus a regular, and summarizes unpaid bookings for you every morning.
There is a second reason deposits are worth the effort, and it is not the cash. A deposit is the cheapest no-show insurance available. A customer who has paid something, however small, turns up at a dramatically different rate than one who has only clicked a link, and the difference shows up in your week within a month. Start with a small figure that covers your cost of holding the slot rather than the full price of the service, and raise it only if the pattern says you should.
Clone the app and it is yours: your Stripe account, your customers, your records. Nobody takes a cut of the booking and nobody holds the data.
Learn the payment action itself in Learn, connect your account with the Stripe integration guide, see how invoicing flows are built in Learn, and browse live payment apps in the Community Gallery. Pair this with the request and confirm form that creates the booking, and final balance collection for the money owed after the appointment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Stripe Checkout really built in, or do I need a developer?
It is a native automation action. You pick Stripe Checkout Session as a step, give it a price or product, and it returns a hosted Stripe URL. There is no server to run and no webhook to hand-wire for the success screen.
Which Stripe account receives the money?
Yours. You connect your own Stripe account through the Stripe integration, and payouts land exactly where your Stripe payouts already land.
Can I charge a different deposit per service?
Yes. Store the deposit amount on the service record and the automation passes it into the Checkout action, so a 30-minute consult and a full-day booking can ask for different amounts from the same flow.
What happens if the customer never pays?
A delay step waits, a filter checks the payment status, and a reminder goes out with the same link. You can add a second branch that flips the booking back to Requested after a set window, which frees the slot for someone else.
Does the booking mark itself as paid?
Yes, when the Stripe integration is connected. The payment event comes back in and updates the record, so nobody has to reconcile a spreadsheet against a Stripe dashboard.
Can I offer pay-in-full instead of a deposit?
Yes. The same action can request the full amount. Many operators run both: full payment for short sessions, a deposit for long ones, chosen by a branch on the service type.
Does this handle refunds?
Refunds are issued in Stripe, and the record carries a Refunded status so your booking history and your cancellation policy stay in agreement. Use the reschedule and cancellation flow for the customer-facing side.
Do I need a paid plan for this?
Automations run on paid plans, starting at Pro, which is $10 per month billed annually and the popular choice. The Free plan gives you 6,000 one-time AI credits and 10 flow runs total, which is enough to build the app and watch the payment flow work once.
