Payments & deferred revenue

Stop overpaying tax on gowns you haven't delivered yet

A bridal deposit isn't income the day it's paid — it's a promise you haven't fulfilled. RingUps books it that way, and recognizes the revenue on the day the gown actually leaves.

ASC 606 aligned Keep your own processor No volume cut
Deposit exposure
Money you hold that isn't yours yet
$62,480
held as a liability across 41 undelivered gowns
Delivering this month$18,240
Next month$21,900
Recognized this week$4,825
The two ledgers

Same sale, two very different sets of books

Set a sale price and a deposit and watch what each system reports as income today.

app.ringups.com/orders/2291/accounting
Gown sale price$2,400
Deposit taken55%
A generic POS
Deposit received$1,320
Booked as income today$1,320
Estimated tax on that$356
On a gown that ships in14 weeks
Income overstated until delivery. If she cancels, you're restating your books.
RingUps
Deposit received$1,320
Booked as income today$0
Held as deferred revenue$1,320
Recognized at delivery$2,400
Roughly $356 of tax stays in your account until the gown is actually delivered — across 40 open orders, that is working capital you can feel.
Payment plans

Every bride pays differently. Track it without a notebook.

Split a gown across three payments, take a card at the counter and a transfer next month, and see at a glance who's behind — with a reminder that goes out before you have to make the awkward call.

3
brides behind on a plan
$2,180
outstanding, all reminded
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Plan — order #2291
3 payments
Jun 2 · deposit, card$1,320 paid
Aug 1 · instalment, transfer$540 paid
Sep 1 · instalment$540 due
At pickup · balance$0
Reminder scheduledAug 28, by email
Your own processor

No lock-in, no processing mandate

Track deposits and balances against every order using whichever processor you already have, at the rate you already negotiated. In-app card capture is on our roadmap — we'll say so here the day it ships, not before.

Month end

A close your accountant recognizes

Every deposit is booked as two matching journal legs, and nothing in the ledger can be edited or deleted afterwards — the database refuses. Payments are the same: nobody, not a manager and not a stray script, can delete one or quietly change its amount. A mistake is voided with a reason and stays on file, struck through. Sales tax collected, AR aging, deferred sales by month, payment summary by method, voids and forfeits, credits on account, discounts and a daily summary all export as spreadsheets.

Accounting integrations →
Cancellations

Refunds that don't unravel your books

Because the deposit was never booked as income, a cancellation releases a liability instead of forcing a restatement — and staff choose the outcome explicitly: forfeit it, refund it, or keep it as store credit she can spend on another dress.

Why not just use your point-of-sale's default?

Most POS systems book a deposit as revenue the moment it's paid. That overstates income — and the tax you owe — on gowns that could still be months from delivery. Fixing it after the fact means restating your books, usually in the same week you're trying to close the year.

See it in reporting → vs. BridalLive →

Ask your accountant to sit in on the demo

They'll have three questions. We'd rather answer them now than after you've switched.

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