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What Is a Payments API? A Developer's Guide to Integrating Payments
A payment API is a way for software to securely send, receive and manage payments. Pinch makes integration simpler with flexible APIs and local support.
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How to Help Clients Get Paid Faster as an Accountant
Accountants can help clients get paid faster by moving them off manual invoicing and onto automated collection methods like direct debit. This reduces reliance on clients chasing payments manually and removes the delays caused by bank transfers, cheques, and forgotten invoices.
Taking Deposits and Progress Payments for Pool Installations and Renovations
Pool builders automate deposits and progress payments by connecting their accounting software to a payments platform, setting up one customer authorisation per job, and raising each construction milestone as its own invoice that collects automatically. This replaces manual follow-up at every stage and smooths the lumpy cash flow that comes with
How to Set Up Automated Invoicing and Payment Collection for Your Marketing Agency
Automated invoicing removes the manual work of chasing clients for payment. It connects your accounting system to a payment platform so invoices go out, get paid, and reconcile without you touching a spreadsheet or sending a follow-up email.
The Best Way to Manage Payments for Your Pool Maintenance Business
Pool maintenance is a repeat-visit business. You service the same customers week after week, yet many pool businesses still send invoices manually and wait to be paid.
Are Instalment Payments and Buy Now, Pay Later the Same Thing?
Instalment payments and buy now, pay later (BNPL) are not the same thing. While both methods allow customers to split the cost of a purchase over time, they operate on different financial models, carry different fee structures, and serve distinct business purposes.
Payment Plans for Businesses: Types, Benefits, and Risks
A payment plan is any arrangement that lets a customer pay a total amount over time instead of all at once. The structure can vary: amounts, timing, and duration might be fixed upfront or agreed more flexibly depending on the situation. Instalment payments are a specific type of payment plan where the total is split into equal chunks paid at set
How to Add a Payment Link to Invoices from Your Accounting Software?
Getting paid should not require awkward follow-ups, manual bank transfers, or customers hunting for your BSB and account number like it's a treasure map.
Embedded Payments Explained
If you've ever paid for a ride without opening a wallet, booked an appointment and settled the bill in the same screen, or had your SaaS platform automatically collect a subscription without redirecting you to a separate checkout — you've already used embedded payments.
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Can SaaS Businesses Pass On Credit Card Surcharges in Australia?
If you run a SaaS business in Australia and collect payments from customers, credit card surcharges have probably crossed your mind. Do you absorb the processing cost yourself? Do you pass it on? And what are you actually allowed to do under Australian law?
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Pinch vs GoCardless vs Stripe in Xero: Which Payment Option Actually Combines Both?
Pinch is the only major Xero-connected payment platform that processes both BECS direct debit and card payments through a single integration. GoCardless handles direct debit collection. Stripe handles card payments. Businesses that want to offer customers both usually connect both, which means two logins, two fee structures, and two reconciliation
