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Stored Credit Card Data
  • Just a feature request - because this is the thing keeping me from diving in to checkfront headfirst.  It appears to be a standard of the "big players" of the hospitality PMS game, but not so much supported by the small guys.  Once something with the simplicity of checkfront has it I'm sure it will become a de-facto standard.

    PCI-DSS compliance so you can store and process credit card data!  We, like many other properties, charge a deposit, followed by the rest 60 days before the booking date.  And sending people offsite when it's authorize.net as the payment processor is just kind of tacky.  Also, we like to auth $800 upon check-in and release it upon check-out for any incidentals, damages, etc.  As a vacation rental property with 8 units these huge, overblown PMSystems are just too much for us.  They are complex and have designs like they're created in access 2000.  Checkfront is beautiful like a poem in it's simplicity and UI.  We are a mac and iPad property and it would be awesome to have a web based system like checkfront that we could use.  Unfortunately for us having to rely on the fact that we're going to get the credit card number a second time for a booking makes checkfront unuseable for our purposes.  I do however hope that you soon integrate real credit card storage and processing, as well as the ability to charge for and track incidentals on the same folio.  I know you are a rental system in general not just a hospitality system, but it is sooo close to hitting the home run!
  • Thanks for the feedback.  When making a booking through Authorize.net or gateway other than Paypal / Google Checkout, the booking happens on our secure server.

    Try a test booking at  https://demo.checkfront.com/reserve/ to see how that works.  If we ever did collect and store credit card details, it would via that process, or via the admin.

    We are looking into options for merchants who wish to capture card data. It's not at the top of our list right now, so not ETA.

    As for incidentals, you can currently create items that don't have events or dates attached to them.  This basically turns them into a line item,   but it's at a set price.  We'd like to add the option to also add generic line items with no fixed amount to an invoice, so look for that in the future.

    Checkfront is beautiful like a poem -- we'll have to frame that one!



    Regards,

    -Jason
    We are PCI DSS compliant by the way. 




  • We would really appreciate this functionality, it is one area we are really struggling with and it would complete the booking system for us. If there is no alternative we may have to find another booking solution :-(


    Please let us know when you have done it!