# Event payment plans

Offer event payment plans without invoices or chasing. Take a booking deposit today and collect instalments automatically before the event date, through your own Stripe account.

**Short answer:** an event payment plan splits a booking into a deposit paid at checkout plus one to four scheduled instalments, with the final payment collected 14 to 30 days before the event. PlanPacer runs this on Stripe without subscriptions: you set the dates, the customer approves the schedule at checkout, and each instalment charges automatically with retries on failure.

## Who uses event payment plans

- Private and corporate event organisers: weddings, milestone parties, company events booked months ahead.
- Event suppliers: caterers, marquee and AV hire, planners and stylists holding a date for one client.
- Experience hosts: supper clubs, multi-day festivals, group trips where the ticket price justifies spreading.

## Example schedules

- **£3,600 wedding catering, 8 months out**: £1,080 deposit (30%) at booking, £1,260 at the halfway point, £1,260 thirty days before the wedding.
- **£800 group event booking, 3 months out**: £200 deposit (25%) at booking, £300 next month, £300 fourteen days before the event.

## How it works

1. Enter the total, the deposit, and the instalment dates. Anchor the final payment 14 to 30 days before the event.
2. Send one checkout link. The customer reviews the full schedule and pays the deposit. No account needed.
3. Instalments collect automatically through your Stripe account, with failed payments retried.

## Frequently asked questions

### How do event payment plans work?
The customer pays a deposit at booking through a hosted checkout link, then the remaining balance is collected automatically in instalments on dates you set, with the final payment landing before the event.

### Can I take instalment payments for event bookings through Stripe?
Yes. PlanPacer schedules one-off Stripe charges on your dates through your own Stripe account. It does not use subscriptions, so the plan ends when the event is paid for.

### When should the final payment be due?
14 to 30 days before the event, leaving time for automatic retries if a payment fails.

### Is this buy-now-pay-later for events?
No. PlanPacer is not a lender and does not pay you upfront. You are collecting your own booking payments over time.

### What happens if an instalment fails before the event?
The charge retries automatically and you are told what happened.

### Does it replace my event booking system?
No. Keep your booking form or ticketing tool and send a PlanPacer link when the customer is ready to reserve.

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**PlanPacer** is payment-plan software that collects deposits, instalments and final balances through Stripe, on a schedule the business sets. It is not a lender and not buy-now-pay-later. Pricing: concierge launch from EUR 199, then 1% per successful payment-plan transaction plus standard Stripe processing fees.

Canonical page: https://planpacer.com/event-payment-plans
More: https://planpacer.com/llms.txt