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Overviu takes payments through your own Stripe account. Guests pay you directly, and the money lands in your Stripe balance; Overviu never holds it. Connect Stripe to take payments when guests book, charge balances and security deposits, send invoices, refund, and check guests’ IDs.
Only owners and admins can connect or disconnect Stripe.

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Before you start

  • A Stripe account (stripe.com) for your business, with payouts set up.
  • About 10 minutes in the Stripe Dashboard.

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Steps

1

Open the payment settings

In Overviu, go to Settings → Payments. Keep this page open: you’ll copy the Endpoint URL from it.
2

Create the webhook in Stripe

Stripe uses a webhook to tell Overviu when a guest has paid. In the Stripe Dashboard, open Developers → Webhooks and add an endpoint:
  • the URL: Overviu’s Endpoint URL;
  • the events: everything under Events to send (payments, refunds, invoices, saved cards and ID checks).
Save it, then copy its signing secret (it starts with whsec_).
3

Copy your API keys

In Developers → API keys, copy the publishable key (pk_…) and a secret key.For the secret key, Overviu recommends a restricted key (rk_…) with write access to PaymentIntents, Checkout Sessions, Refunds and Customers, and read access to Webhook Endpoints. Your standard secret key (sk_…) works too.
4

Connect

Back in Overviu, paste the Publishable key, the Secret key and the Webhook signing secret, and click Connect Stripe. Overviu checks the secret key with Stripe; if Stripe refuses it, you’ll see “Stripe rejected this secret key. Check it and try again.”
5

Check the webhook

Click Check webhook setup. “All set: the endpoint is enabled and sends every event we need.” means you’re done. Otherwise Overviu says what’s wrong: no endpoint at that URL, the endpoint is disabled, or Missing events to add in Stripe.
The page then shows the Stripe account you’re connected to, its default currency, and Last event received: the last message Stripe sent Overviu.

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Make Stripe’s pages look like yours

Guests pay on Stripe’s checkout and invoice pages. Under Make Stripe pages look like yours, Open in Stripe takes you to the settings that live in your Stripe account:
  • Logo and colours for checkout, invoices and receipts;
  • Public business name and support details guests see;
  • the Statement descriptor prefix on the card statement (Overviu adds the booking code after it);
  • Customer emails: the receipts and invoice emails Stripe sends guests.

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Test first

Connect with your Stripe test-mode keys (pk_test_…, sk_test_…) and a test-mode webhook to try bookings with Stripe’s test cards. When you’re ready, Disconnect and connect again with your live keys and a live webhook.

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Without Stripe

Overviu works without Stripe: guests book with Guest pays at check-in (no online payment), and you record the cash, bank transfers or card-terminal payments you take. You can’t take online payments, security deposits or refunds through Overviu, and ID checks happen when guests arrive.
A listing set to take payment online can’t be booked until Stripe is connected: the booking site tells guests the host hasn’t set up online payments yet.

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Disconnect

Click Disconnect and confirm. Guests can no longer pay online. If guests are paying right now, Overviu warns you first: their payments won’t confirm their bookings after you disconnect.