FOR PRACTITIONERS
Booking for tarot readers, mediums, astrologers, reiki and doulas
Aventide gives tarot and intuitive readers, psychic mediums, astrologers, reiki practitioners and doulas a booking page and a client portal. Clients pay in full or a deposit when they book, through your own Stripe account, and what you share afterward waits in their portal. Sidekick, the AI in Aventide, drafts the admin for your approval; the session is yours.
IN YOUR WORDS
What credit card processor do you work with?
"All of this sounds pretty vague and based entirely on how square wants to interpret what one sells."
ebnoll, a tarot reader, on Square's rules for readings.
"They are cracking down on "psychic services" again just FYI."
@thehoodwitch, asking tarot readers and witches which processor they use.
"It takes away the pressure of worrying about getting paid."
Cassandra Truax, a tarot reader, on readings paid for in advance.
All three are about the money around a reading, not the reading: whose rules it moves under, and whether it arrives. With Aventide the client pays when they book, into your own Stripe account; whether Stripe takes on your business is Stripe's call, and the answer below says what we know.
STEP ONE
Paid when they book, on terms they read first
Each kind of session gets its own booking page, price and length: a 30-minute tarot reading, a natal chart consultation, a distance reiki session. Clients pay in full or a deposit by card when they book, through your own Stripe account, and Aventide adds no fee of its own. Before they pay, the page states your refund rule, so a client who misses the session has already paid on terms they read. Aventide doesn't charge a saved card for a no-show; paying up front is how it handles them.
STEP TWO
Their questions, your link, their reminders
Ask up to 10 questions when the client books: their birth date, time and place for a chart, what they hope to ask, or a checkbox agreeing to the session being recorded, since some US states require everyone on a call to agree to a recording. Each booking gets its own Zoom or Google Meet link, or your address for an in-person session. Clients get email reminders 24 hours and one hour before, and can reschedule or cancel from their confirmation email up to the notice period you set.
STEP THREE
After the session, it waits in their portal
Add the recording or your notes to the client's room and turn on Show in client portal. The client signs in to a portal in your logo and colors to open or download it, instead of searching their email for a link that has run out. Aventide doesn't record calls itself. Sidekick, the AI in Aventide, drafts the admin around the session, like a thank-you note; the session is yours. Anything Aventide drafts for a client waits for your approval; automations you switch on run on their own.
FOR DOULAS
Consult, contract, retainer, balance
A family books a free consult from your booking page. When they choose you, send your contract for e-signature: you sign first, they sign on a page in your branding, and Aventide drafts the deposit invoice for your retainer and waits for your approval. Send the balance invoice with the due date your contract sets, such as 36 weeks, and Aventide drafts a reminder for your approval if it runs late. Aventide does not bill insurance or Medicaid, and it isn't HIPAA compliant.
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