--- title: "How to create a payment link for DJ bookings" url: https://djing.com/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026 markdown_url: https://djing.com/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md description: "Set up a payment link in two minutes with Stripe, Revolut Business, PayPal, Wise, SumUp, Square or Mollie. Real fees, the deposit habit that stops you chasing money, and why we take nothing on your private parties." type: article site: DJing.com author: "DJing" category: "Guides" date_published: 2026-08-10T13:44:22+00:00 date_modified: 2026-08-10T13:44:22+00:00 language: en image: /img/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.webp keywords: - "payment link" - "dj bookings" - "how to get paid as a dj" - "dj deposit" - "stripe payment link" - "revolut business" - "paypal" - "wise" - "sumup" - "square" - "mollie" - "dj invoice" - "private party dj" translations: ar: https://djing.com/ar/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md de: https://djing.com/de/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md es: https://djing.com/es/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md fi: https://djing.com/fi/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md fr: https://djing.com/fr/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md hi: https://djing.com/hi/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md it: https://djing.com/it/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md ja: https://djing.com/ja/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md no: https://djing.com/no/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md pt: https://djing.com/pt/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md sv: https://djing.com/sv/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md zh: https://djing.com/zh/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026.md --- # How to create a payment link for DJ bookings The gig is agreed. The host likes you, the date is in the calendar, and then comes the message that stalls everything: "great, how do I pay you?" If your answer is a screenshot of your IBAN, you have just handed a stranger homework. Some hosts will do it that evening. Others mean to, forget, and remember the week after the party, which means you are the one sending the awkward reminder. A payment link removes all of that. It is one URL. The host taps it on their phone, pays with the card or wallet they already have, and you get a notification. Nothing to install, no account to open, no account number typed in wrong. Every provider below can make one in about two minutes. Pick whichever you can set up today. ## What the link actually has to do Ignore the feature lists for a second. For DJ work, a payment link needs to: - Take a fixed amount in the currency you quoted. - Work in a phone browser, for someone with no account anywhere. - Tell you the moment it is paid. - Leave a receipt with your name on it. - Be quick to duplicate, because you will send a second one for the balance. Settle one thing before you send anything: card fees come out of your side. If you quote 400 and the processor takes 1.5%, you are paid 394. Quote the number you want to keep, or add the fee on top and say that you have. ## Stripe Payment Links The most polished option, and it needs no website and no code. In the Stripe Dashboard, open [Payment links](https://docs.stripe.com/payment-links/create) and create a new one. Name it the way your host thinks about it ("DJ set, 3 hours, Saturday 12 April"), set the amount, hit create. You get a URL and a QR code. Stripe's hosted page offers the payer more than 40 payment methods, filtered to whatever is relevant where they are, in their own language, and it sends the receipt for you. You can also let the payer choose the amount, which is useful for a tip or a top-up when the party runs long. Refunds are two clicks. Stripe's UK rates: 1.5% + 20p on standard UK cards, 2.8% + 20p on premium UK cards, 2.5% + 20p on cards from the rest of the EEA, 3.15% + 20p on other international cards, plus 2% when a currency has to be converted. Rates differ by country and they do move, so check [your own](https://stripe.com/pricing). ## Revolut Business If you tour Europe and get paid in three currencies, this is the one that will annoy you least. Open Payments, go to the Requests tab, click New request and choose [Payment link](https://www.revolut.com/business/payment-links/). Fill in amount, currency and description, then Create. There is a second route under Merchant, then Get paid, then Payment link, which lets you put your logo on the page before you send it. Revolut charges 1.3% on UK and EEA consumer cards and 2.8% on everything else. Refunds are free and the links carry no monthly cost. ## PayPal Not the cheapest, but the one a nervous host recognises, and that is worth something when they are sending money to a DJ they found online. There are two routes. For a quick link, open the PayPal app, tap Send/Request, choose to send and request money with a [link](https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/send-receive-money/paypal-me), enter the amount, currency and a note, and create it. Links have to be made in the app, not on desktop. For anything that needs paperwork, use invoices instead: creating and sending them is free, and you pay only when the money arrives. One detail matters more than the fee. When the host pays, they must choose "paying for an item or service", not "sending to a friend". Friends and family looks cheaper and removes the protection you both rely on, and it is not what a business account is for. Put it in your message so the host is not left guessing. PayPal's percentages vary by country more than anyone else's, so read [the fee page for yours](https://www.paypal.com/us/business/paypal-business-fees). ## Wise Business The right answer when the fee is in a currency you do not live in. You need a Wise Business account on the Advanced plan with at least one set of account details switched on. Then pick a currency and amount, say what it is for, and choose whether the [link](https://wise.com/help/articles/4qr3kkvIQlHNiD8BegEB4u/getting-paid-to-your-wise-business-by-payment-link) is single use or reusable. You can attach the invoice, a due date and a message, then share it by email, text or WhatsApp. The money lands in your Wise balance in the currency you asked for, and you convert when the rate suits you instead of when your bank feels like it. Single use links expire after a month, so do not build the balance link in January for a July wedding. ## SumUp Pick this one if you already own a card reader. In the SumUp Business app, open [Payment Links](https://www.sumup.com/en-gb/payment-links/), add what you are charging for, and send it by SMS or email. The app shows which links are paid and which are not, and resends an unpaid one in a tap. It is 2.5% per transaction with no monthly fee. The reader in your bag is the real bonus. Same account, same payouts, so the guest who wants to buy an extra hour at 1am can tap a card instead of promising to send it tomorrow. ## Square Name the link, add a price and a description, and it exists. You can build them in the Dashboard or the Point of Sale app, reuse one link for something you sell often, and add your branding and custom fields. [Online transactions](https://squareup.com/us/en/payment-links) cost 3.3% + 30 cents in the US, with no monthly fee. Mostly relevant if you are in North America and already run Square. ## Mollie Worth a look if most of your hosts are Dutch, Belgian or German. Unlimited [links](https://www.mollie.com/products/payment-links) for free from the Mollie Dashboard, standard transaction costs only, and a checkout that offers iDEAL, Bancontact and SEPA next to the cards. A Dutch host paying by iDEAL is finished in seconds, where a card form makes them stop and think. ## The app your host already has on their phone In a lot of countries the fastest route is not a card processor at all: - Spain: Bizum, used by around 30 million people. - Sweden: Swish, so common that Swedes use it as a verb. - Poland: BLIK, past 20 million users. - Portugal: MB WAY. - Norway, Denmark and Finland: Vipps MobilePay. - Switzerland: TWINT. - Netherlands: Tikkie, which has a business version. These are instant and cost nothing or close to it. The catch is that they are person to person transfers: no invoice with your trading name, no dispute process, and they only work if the host banks in that country. Fine for a 100 euro deposit from someone in your own town. Not fine for a company Christmas party where the finance team needs a document. ## Plain bank transfer SEPA and Faster Payments cost nothing and clear quickly. The rails were never the problem. Typing an IBAN is a chore, and chores get postponed. Put your bank details at the bottom of the invoice for the hosts who insist on them, and lead with the link for everyone else. ## The fees, side by side - Revolut Business: 1.3% on UK and EEA consumer cards, 2.8% on other cards. - Stripe: from 1.5% + 20p on UK cards up to 3.15% + 20p international, plus 2% on conversion. - SumUp: 2.5%, no monthly fee. - Square: 3.3% + 30 cents online in the US. - Mollie: the links are free, you pay the normal rate per method. - PayPal: free to send an invoice, then a percentage plus a fixed fee when it is paid, higher again across borders. - Local apps and bank transfer: usually nothing. On a 500 booking, the gap between the cheapest and the dearest option here is about 10. Do not choose on that. Choose the app you will actually open on a Sunday morning. If you are still working out what to put in the box, we ran the real numbers in [what a DJ costs a bar in 2026](https://djing.com/blog/how-much-does-a-dj-cost-for-your-bar-2026). ## Send two links, not one This is the habit that changes your year, and adopting it costs nothing. Take a deposit when the booking is confirmed, somewhere between 30% and 50%, and say in writing that it is non refundable. Send the balance link separately, due either before you leave home or in the hour before you start. Two links, named so they cannot be mixed up: "Deposit, Saturday 12 April" and "Balance, Saturday 12 April". The deposit is not really about the money. It is the moment a maybe turns into a booking. Hosts who will not pay one are usually the same hosts who cancel on the Thursday. ## Check these before you hit send - The amount is what you want to keep, after fees. - The description says what is included: hours, travel, whether you bring sound. - The date is in the description, not only in your head. - Your cancellation terms are written somewhere the host has seen them. - The name on the payment page is the name you gave them, so it does not read as a scam. That last one catches people out. A link showing an unfamiliar company name gets forwarded to somebody's suspicious brother in law, and then nothing happens for a week. ## Where DJing sits in this We make software, not a booking agency. Our streaming app carries your set at full quality instead of the compressed mush a video call gives you, and At Home Concerts runs ticketed shows. For a private party, collect it yourself and we take nothing, because we are not in the transaction. You agree a fee with the host, you send your own link, the money goes from them to you, and we never see it. That is why this article exists: it is your invoice, so it should be your account. If you would rather run the booking through our checkout, that path costs 1 per performance hour in the currency you charge in, so 3 on a three hour set, plus whatever the processor charges. It is shown to you before you accept. Your own link avoids it. We would rather tell you that than have you find it on the invoice. For a public ticketed show, the ticketing is ours and the money still is not. You connect your own Stripe, Revolut Business, PayPal or Mollie account in the dashboard, buyers pay into it directly, and you keep 100%. There is no commission on ticket sales. If you would rather sell through Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Patreon or Ko-fi, those connect too. Go and build the deposit link now, while nobody is waiting on it. Name it after your next open weekend. The next time a host asks how to pay, you paste one line and get back to digging for records. --- Source: [How to create a payment link for DJ bookings](https://djing.com/blog/how-to-create-a-payment-link-for-dj-bookings-2026) on DJing.com. Free to quote and cite with attribution and a link to the source URL. Full index of DJing.com content in Markdown: https://djing.com/blog/llms.txt