Take a deposit to hold the day
Hold a Saturday for a tidy-up and have the client go quiet, and that is a day you could have filled. Soopaspace takes a deposit by card the moment someone books a job you list with a price, so the day is paid toward before you turn down other work for it.
Free to start with your booking page, bookings and clients. Everything else is one paid plan: £9.99/month billed yearly, or £12.99 monthly.
How it looks
A £15.00 deposit is taken now by card. The remaining £45.00 is paid on the day.
Pay £15.00 depositOctober
Illustrations of the product. Names and amounts are examples.
A deposit on the jobs you book directly
For the jobs you list with a set price, a tidy-up, a hedge-cut, a one-off visit, you can put a fixed deposit on each one, taken by card as the client books. The rest is paid when the work is done, so a booked day is committed to rather than pencilled in.
- A fixed deposit on the services you price up front
- Taken by card when the client books
- Taken by card; clients paying cash or transfer pay their way
- The rest paid once the job is done
For bigger quoted jobs, the quote does it
When a job needs pricing first, a clearance or a bit of landscaping, that goes through a quote and the deposit is taken when the client accepts. A deposit on a directly-booked service is the quicker version of the same idea: the money that turns a maybe into a day you can count on.
- Priced jobs take a deposit at booking
- Quoted jobs take theirs when the quote is accepted
- Either way, the day is paid toward
- No Saturday held for a job that goes cold
Try it on your own business
Start free with your booking page, bookings and clients. No card, no time limit.
Common questions
- Can I take a deposit on a garden job without sending a quote first?
- Yes. For jobs you list with a set price, a deposit is taken by card when the client books, with the rest paid on completion. Bigger jobs that need pricing can take their deposit when the quote is accepted instead.
- What happens to the deposit if a client cancels?
- Soopaspace records it as received against the booking. Whether to refund it is up to you, and refunds are made from your dashboard.
Go deeper
For your line of work, specifically
- Quoting and rounds, built for gardeners
- Book your garden rounds on repeat
- Quote for the bigger one-off jobs
- Invoice a job, get paid by card
- The areas your round actually covers
- Hold the day you set aside for a job
- Every garden remembered, regular or not
- Sell a garden tidy as a gift
- A garden care plan that pays every month
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One paid plan, one price
One app for the whole of it
£9.99/month, billed yearly
or £12.99 a month. Cancel any time.
- A booking page you edit on the page itself
- Fixed-price appointments, quoted jobs, or both
- Group events, courses & waiting lists
- Bundles, offers, discount codes & gift vouchers
- On-demand services: paid now, delivered later
- Reminders, two-way calendar sync & self-service rescheduling
- Quotes & invoices, with overdue ones chased politely for you
- Money, P&L, expenses & mileage
Free plan: your booking page, bookings and clients, with no card and no time limit.