# Take bookings on your booking pages

> **Plans**
>
> Available on Standard and Pro. On Free the console shows that these are there, but you need Standard or higher to use them.

A guest who follows your booking link from an AI answer lands on your current booking page today. Finish the items on the **Booking pages** tab and you can send that link to VibeBooking's booking pages instead, in your logo and colour.

> **Note: Test mode for now**
>
> Card payments go through Stripe's test mode, so no real bookings or payments are made.

## Before you start

- It's for properties on Channex. [Connect Channex](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/connect-channex) first.
- An **Owner** or a **Manager** sets it up.
- On Free, the tab says **Available on Standard**.

## Open the setup

Open the property and its **Booking pages** tab. **Before you take bookings** is at the top, with a count such as "1 of 6 done".

![Before you take bookings on the Booking pages tab: the payment options, and the list of items still to do.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-setup-desktop.webp)
*Before you take bookings, at the start. Items already done are ticked.*

## Choose how guests pay

Under **How guests pay**, choose one or both, then click **Save payment options**.

| Option | When guests pay | Stripe account |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Pay by card when booking** | As they book, by card | Needed |
| **Pay at the property** | At check-in, to you | Not needed |

**Pay by card when booking** unlocks once you [set up Stripe](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/booking-engine#stripe).

![How guests pay: checkboxes for card payment when booking and payment at the property, and a save button.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-modes-desktop.webp)
*Card payment chosen and saved.*

## Set up Stripe

Card payments go to your own Stripe account, and guests see your name on their statements. Your VibeBooking account has one Stripe account, shared by all its properties.

1. **Click Set up Stripe**

   A Stripe account is created for your property, and Stripe's sign up pages open.

2. **Sign up on Stripe**

   The business itself enters its details, its representative's identity and the bank account for payouts. Stripe receives them; VibeBooking never sees them.

3. **Come back**

   When you finish, Stripe sends you back to the **Booking pages** tab.

If Stripe still needs something, **Continue on Stripe** picks up where you left off. Stripe's review can take a few days.

## Work through the checklist

**Before you take bookings** has six items. Each one not yet done says what it's waiting for.

![The list of items before taking bookings, the finished ones ticked and the statement name still to check.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-checklist-desktop.webp)
*Done up to the test booking. The statement name is left.*

| Item | How to finish it |
| --- | --- |
| Card payments on Stripe | Finish [Set up Stripe](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/booking-engine#stripe). Not needed for **Pay at the property** alone. |
| Bookings reach your reservation system | If you see "Your reservation system isn't answering. Check its connection settings.", check that Channex's Booking CRS application is installed and your API key is still valid. |
| Cancelled rooms go back on sale | Turn on both of Channex's availability settings (off by default). [How VibeBooking works with your system](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/inventory-systems#channex) names them. |
| A test booking, made and cancelled | **Run a test booking** writes one booking to Channex and cancels it. If it fails, check the two items above and run it again. |
| Your name on guests' card statements | See [Your statement name](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/booking-engine#descriptor). Not needed for **Pay at the property** alone. |
| The six facts filled in, and live | See [Go live](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/go-live). |

### Your statement name

Compare **On card statements (Stripe)** with **On your checkout**. A statement name that looks nothing like your property's can make a guest dispute the charge. You can change it in your Stripe dashboard. When it's right, click **This name is fine**.

![The name on card statements at Stripe beside the name on your checkout, with a This name is fine button.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-descriptor-desktop.webp)
*Compare the name at Stripe with the name on your checkout.*

If you change the name at Stripe later, check it again.

## Switch your booking link

Once every item is done, click **Send guests to this checkout**. From then on, guests who follow your booking link book on your booking pages.

![Where your booking link goes, with every item done and the Send guests to this checkout button ready to press.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-ready-desktop.webp)
*Every item done, ready to switch.*

After the switch, your logo and colour settings sit at the top of the tab ([Brand your booking pages](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/en/checkout-brand)). To undo, click **Go back to your current booking page**.

![The booking link switched to this checkout, with a button to go back to your current booking page.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-switched-desktop.webp)
*Switched. You can go back to your current booking page.*

### When it won't switch

If something changed after you opened the page, such as the statement name at Stripe, the switch is refused and names the items still to do. Finish them and click again.

![The switch refused, with the items still to do listed by name.](https://docs.vibebooking.ai/screenshots/en/engine-not-ready-desktop.webp)
*The items still to do, by name.*

## If your plan changes

If the property moves to Free, guests go to your current booking page again. Back on a plan with booking pages, they book on them again, with nothing to set up.