General settings¶

At “Settings” → “Payment”, you can configure every aspect related to the payments you want to accept. The “Deadline” and “Advanced” tabs of the page show a number of general settings that affect all payment methods:

In particular, these are:

Payment term in days: If a order has been created, it is supposed to be paid within this number of days. Of course, some payment methods (like credit card) succeed immediately in most cases, but others don’t (like bank transfer) and even credit card payments might fail and you might want to give the customer a chance to try another credit card before losing their ticket. Therefore, we recommend setting a few days here. If you are accepting bank transfers, we wouldn’t recommend less than 10 days.
Last date of payments: There is probably no use for payments received after your event, so you can set a date that the payment deadline of a new order will never exceed. This has precedence over the number of days configured above, so if I create an order two days before the configured last date of payments, my payment term will only be two days, not ten. If you have payment methods that always require some time (like bank transfer), you will later be able to selectively disable them once the event comes closer.
Only end payment terms on weekdays: If you check this box, the payment term calculated by the number of days configured above will never end on a Saturday or a Sunday. If it technically would do so, the term is extended to the next Monday. Note that this currently does not take into account national or bank holidays in your country.
Automatically expire unpaid orders: If you check this box, orders will automatically go into “expired” state if the payment term is over and no payment has been received. This means that the tickets will no longer be reserved for the customer and someone else can buy them from the shop again. If you do not check this box, tickets do not become available again automatically, but you can mark orders as expired manually.
Accept late payments: If you check this box, incoming payments will accepted even if the order is in “expired” state – as long as there still is sufficient quota available and the last date of payments is not yet over. We recommend to check this in most cases.
Tax rule for payment fees: If you pass on the payment method fees to your customers, you will most likely also need to pay sales tax on those fees. Here, you can configure the tax rate. Read Configuring taxes for more information.

Below, you can configure the details of the various payment methods. You can find information on their different settings on the next pages of this documentation, but there are a few things most of them have in common:

Enable payment method: Check this box to allow customers to use this method. At least one method needs to be active to process non-free orders.
Additional fee (absolute and percentage), Calculate the fee from the total value including the fee: These fields allow you to pass fees on to your customers instead of paying them yourselves. Read Payment method fees for documentation on how this behaves.
Available until: This allows you to set a date at which this payment method will automatically become disabled. This is useful if you want people to be able to pay by card on the day before your event, but not by bank transfer, because it would not arrive in time.
Text on invoices: If you are using pretix’ invoicing feature, this is a text that will be printed on every invoice for an order that uses this payment method. You could use this to tell the accounting department of the invoice receiver that the payment has already been received online or that it should be performed via bank transfer.