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Venmo, Cash App, and Zelle cover most clients, but some want to pay by card or straight from their bank account. Connect your own Stripe account and Clarely adds Pay by card and Pay by bank to every invoice — money goes straight into your Stripe balance, and Clarely never touches it.

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How it works

You connect your own Stripe account once. After that, every invoice you send shows card and bank payment options alongside Venmo, Cash App, and Zelle. When a client pays, Clarely creates the charge through your Stripe account and marks the invoice paid automatically — you don’t have to record anything yourself.

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Bank payments (ACH) need one extra step in Stripe

Connecting your Stripe account turns on card payments right away. Bank payments need one additional toggle in your own Stripe Dashboard — it’s not automatic, and it’s easy to miss:
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Open Payment methods in Stripe

In your Stripe Dashboard, go to Payments → Payment methods.
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Turn on Bank debits

Find Bank debits in the list and switch it on.
Your Stripe account needs to be fully verified before this toggle is available. If it’s grayed out, finish any outstanding verification steps in Stripe first — see Set up a Stripe account.
Bank payments typically take up to 4 business days to clear, longer than a card payment. Clarely shows the invoice as processing while a bank payment is settling, then updates it to Paid automatically once Stripe confirms it.
This is different from recording a card payment manually. If a client pays you by card some other way — say, through a payment terminal you already use — you can still note that on the invoice. See Payment handling for that option. This page is about accepting card payments directly through Clarely.

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Setting it up

See Connect Stripe for the full walkthrough.

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What your client sees

A client opening an invoice with card payments connected sees a Pay by card button next to your other payment options. Tapping it takes them to a secure Stripe checkout page — they never leave a trusted payment screen to enter their card details.

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Fees

Stripe charges its standard processing fee (2.9% + $0.30 for U.S. cards) on each payment. Clarely doesn’t add anything on top.

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Refunds

Refunds happen in your Stripe account, not in Clarely. If you refund a client through Stripe, go back to the invoice in Clarely and update it yourself — refunding in Stripe doesn’t automatically change the invoice’s paid status.

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Plan requirement

Accepting card payments is available on Professional plan and above. On Free and Starter, clients pay through Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle only — see Payment handling.

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What to do next

Ready to turn this on? Head to Connect Stripe to link your account, or check Card payment problems if something’s not working.