Your customer authorises their card on the first payment. From then on you charge fees, extras or outstanding balances without asking for their details again.
When your customer pays, their card number is replaced by a secure code: the token. With that code you can charge them again; the real number never goes through your business or your software.
The charge goes through on the agreed date.
Minibar, drop-in classes, materials: charged at the end without asking for the card again.
Charge whatever is left to pay once the service is delivered.
Your PMS, ERP or website triggers the charge with the token via API.
From the Avirato Payments dashboard, no coding needed. Or from your software, with the REST API and webhooks documented in Developers.
Yes: they give it when authorising the first payment, where they are informed that their card will be saved for future charges.
No. You only see the token and the last digits.
Tokenization is included; you pay the standard rate on each charge (Interchange++ from 0.69% + €0.07).