Get paid through Stripe with the Samba booking system

What Stripe handles for your bookings

Samba takes the booking; Stripe moves the money. Every charge runs through your own Stripe account — deposits, later installments, and refunds all work the same way. Payouts follow your normal Stripe schedule and Samba is never in between. Your payment history, your customers and your payout timing stay exactly where they are today.

Deposits and payment plans

Most multi-day trips aren’t paid in one go. Samba can take a deposit at checkout and collect the balance later, either on a schedule you set or as one final payment. Each installment is charged to the card the traveler saved when they booked — nobody has to be sent a payment link, and nobody has to be chased.

Refunds work from inside Samba and go back to the card the traveler used.

Apple Pay and Google Pay

Both can be switched on from your settings once Stripe is connected. Travelers tap a wallet button instead of typing card details, which is where most mobile drop-off happens.

One thing worth knowing: wallet buttons show up on fixed-price trips paid in full. If a traveler is leaving a deposit or choosing a payment plan, they’ll pay by card instead.

What you need to get started

A Stripe account in one of the 40+ countries Stripe covers, and one account per workspace. If you don’t have one yet you can create it while connecting — it’s the same five minutes either way. No engineering, no setup fee, nothing to install.