Payment methods

At checkout you choose how the client is paying. Each option behaves a little differently.

Card

Enter the client's card at checkout and it's charged through Stripe. Requires payments to be connected. The money lands in your Stripe account and pays out to your bank on Stripe's schedule.

Card on file

If the client has a saved card, it appears as a one-tap option — charge it without entering anything. Same Stripe processing as above.

Cash, Zelle, PayPal, Venmo

These record a payment that happened outside Mila — the client handed you cash or sent you money on another app. Mila doesn't move any money for these; it records the payment so:

• the appointment is completed properly,
• the client's history shows what they paid,
• your revenue reports include it, and
• the client still gets a receipt.

Confirm you actually received the money before recording it — recording is bookkeeping, not collection.

Gift cards

Gift card balances are redeemed during dashboard checkout — enter the card's code and the balance comes off the total. See Gift cards.

Which should you prefer?

Whatever suits your business — but saved cards are the smoothest repeat-client experience, and card payments give you the cleanest paper trail since Stripe records the whole transaction.