In your head
“I need to ask Sarah for £18.”
Create a payment request
Keep the customer, service, amount and due date together.
How Simply Link works
You finish the work. Here’s what happens next.
Instead of letting the payment turn into another loose end in your messages, bank and memory, Simply Link gives it one clear journey from “I need to ask for payment” to paid.
Free to start•No card needed to sign up•Payments securely processed by Stripe
One payment journey
1 hour dog walk · £18
Job finished
Sarah owes £18 for a one-hour dog walk.
Payment request created
Customer, service, amount and due date are kept together.
Made live and shared
Sarah receives a secure payment link.
Tracked until it changes
Simply Link keeps it visible while payment is still outstanding.
Paid
Successful payment updates the request automatically.
The useful bit: you do not have to keep rebuilding this story in your head.
What you think → what Simply Link does
The workflow starts in normal human language.
You do not need to think in software states. You think about the customer and the money. Simply Link turns that into a clear process.
In your head
“Did I actually send it?”
Make live & share
The request has a clear live state and a secure customer link.
In your head
“Have they paid yet?”
Track
See whether the request is awaiting, overdue or paid.
In your head
“Do I need to chase them?”
Reminders
Send one manually or use automatic follow-up when eligible.
In your head
“What actually happened with it?”
Activity & history
See meaningful payment and reminder events without reconstructing them.
In your head
“Same customer again next week.”
Repeatability
Reuse details, Request Again or use Recurring Requests on Pro.
One of the real problems
“They said they would pay later, but now I’m checking my bank again.”
Simply Link does not make the customer magically pay.
It makes the situation visible: the request is still awaiting payment, the due date is known, reminders can be handled and a successful payment updates the request when it arrives.
The quoted line is an anonymised comment from a UK solo-business Facebook discussion, not a Simply Link customer testimonial.
From job done to paid
CREATE → PREVIEW → MAKE LIVE → SHARE → TRACK → PAID
That is the whole backbone of Simply Link. Everything else exists to make one of those stages easier.
01
Create
Choose customer, service, amount and due date.
02
Preview
Check everything before your customer can pay.
03
Make live
Publish the payment page when you are ready.
04
Share
Send the secure link wherever you already talk.
05
Track
See what is waiting, overdue or needs attention.
06
Paid
Payment succeeds and the request updates.
01–03 · Create, Preview, Make Live
Get the payment out of your head while the job is still fresh.
Pick the customer, what they are paying for, the amount and the due date. Simply Link keeps those details together as a draft until you are ready.
Reuse customers and services
Regular work does not mean typing the same customer and service information again.
Full payment or deposit
Collect everything at once or take a deposit and the remaining balance later.
Preview before anything goes live
Check the request and customer view while it is still private.
Draft means private.
Your customer cannot pay a draft. Preview it first, then make it live deliberately.
Payment request
Garden maintenance
Customer
Luke Richards
Due
Friday
Service
Garden maintenance
£45
The first time you make a request live
Connect Stripe so the customer can actually pay.
Stripe is the payment processor behind the card payment. Connecting it is what turns a Simply Link request from useful payment admin into something that can take real money.
You are not opening another bank account with Simply Link.
Connect Stripe
Stripe handles the card payment processing for your business.
Customer pays securely
Their card details are handled by Stripe, not stored by Simply Link.
Request updates
When payment succeeds, Simply Link reflects the new payment state.
WhatsApp
Email
Copy link
No customer account
They open your link and pay.
Payment request from
Cornwall Dog Walking
1 hour dog walk
£18.00
DueFriday
Pay securely by card
Card payment processed by Stripe
04 · Share
Keep talking to your customer wherever you already talk.
Once the request is live, send the secure payment link through WhatsApp, email or copy it wherever you need it. Your customer does not need a Simply Link account.
The link is only the customer-facing part.
The payment request stays inside Simply Link so you can see what happens afterwards.
05 · Track
The bit after you share the link is the whole point.
A link is easy to send. The admin starts afterwards: has it been paid, is it overdue, did a reminder go out and what happened last?
Payment Tracker
“What needs attention?”
JE
John Ellis
Garden tidy-up
£75
2 days overdue
ST
Sarah Thompson
1 hour dog walk
£18
Due Friday
LM
Lucy Martin
Weekly clean
£45
Paid
Activity
“What happened?”
Lucy paid £45
Weekly clean
Reminder sent to John
Garden tidy-up · £75
Sarah request made live
1 hour dog walk · £18
Tracker
Tells you what needs attention now.
Activity
Tells you what has happened recently.
When payment is still waiting
“I hate sending reminder messages.” Simply Link can take some of that remembering away.
Send a reminder yourself when you want to, or use automatic reminders on eligible requests so follow-up does not depend entirely on you remembering to do it.
“I hate sending reminder messages.” is an anonymised comment from a UK solo-business Facebook discussion, not a Simply Link customer testimonial.
- Send a manual reminder whenever you decide a payment needs a nudge.
- See when automatic follow-up is active and what happens next.
- Free includes automatic reminders on 1 eligible request each month.
- Pro enables automatic reminders across every eligible request.
- Pro also lets you customise reminder schedules and wording.
Awaiting payment
Weekly house clean
Emma Lewis
Automatic follow-up
Next reminder scheduled for Thursday.
06 · Paid
When the payment arrives, the request moves with it.
Your customer pays securely by card through Stripe. A successful payment updates the request so you are not left wondering whether that random bank movement was the one you were waiting for.
Payment state updates automatically
You can see that the request is paid without manually matching it to a bank movement.
Activity keeps the event visible
The payment becomes part of the recent story of what happened.
Pro can send receipts and paid emails
Customers can receive a receipt and you can receive an email when payment arrives.
Payment request
1 hour dog walk
Customer
Sarah Thompson
Received
£18.00
Payment confirmed
Simply Link now shows this request as paid.
Regular customer?
Use Request Again, or set up a Recurring Request on Pro if the work follows a predictable schedule.
When the work happens again
The next payment should not mean starting from zero.
Repeatability depends on how predictable the work is. Simply Link gives you three ways to avoid rebuilding the same admin.
Same details again
Saved customers & services
Keep the customer and the work you regularly charge for ready to reuse.
Similar job, whenever it happens
Request Again
Turn a previous payment into a fresh request and change anything that is different this time.
Pro
Predictable schedule
Recurring Requests
On Pro, let Simply Link create the next normal request weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Recurring Requests · Pro
Same work every week or month? Let Simply Link create the next request.
Set the schedule once. Simply Link can create the next normal payment request weekly, fortnightly or monthly, five calendar days before it is due.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly
Choose the schedule that matches the regular work you actually do.
Created five calendar days before due
The next occurrence is prepared ahead of the date your customer is expected to pay.
Draft first or make live automatically
Keep a final check in your workflow or let the next request publish automatically.
Pause and resume
Stop future generation when the regular work pauses without losing the history.
Recurring Requests are not automatic charges.
Simply Link creates the next normal payment request. Your customer still opens their secure payment link and chooses to pay.
Recurring Request
Weekly dog walking
- Customer
- Sarah Thompson
- Amount
- £18.00
- Repeats
- Every week
- Publish
- Make live automatically
Next request is created
Simply Link creates the next occurrence ahead of its due date.
It follows your publish choice
Leave it as a draft to check, or make it live automatically.
The normal workflow takes over
Share, track, remind and see it through to paid like any other request.
Not every job is one payment
Deposit first. Balance later. Keep both part of the same story.
For bookings, appointments and larger jobs, collect a deposit first and keep the remaining balance attached to the same payment journey.
Take the deposit first
Collect part of the total before the booking, appointment or larger job.
Keep the balance attached
The remaining amount stays connected to the same overall payment journey.
Track the right due date
Once the deposit is paid, the remaining balance follows its own expected payment date.
Family photography
£500 total
Deposit
£150
Remaining balance
£350
Your customer’s side stays simple
They do not need to understand your workflow. They just need to pay.
The customer sees a clear payment request, the amount, what it is for and a secure way to pay by card.
Open the link
No Simply Link account is required for the customer to view the payment request.
See what they are paying for
The request shows the amount, payment context and due information clearly.
Pay securely by card
Stripe handles the card payment and Simply Link updates the request when payment succeeds.
The whole point
The work is done. The payment no longer has to live in your head.
Give the payment one place to live from request to reminder to paid — and get on with the work you actually sell.
Create your first payment requestFree to start•No card needed to sign up•Payments securely processed by Stripe