Review Payments, Payouts, and Invoices

The Payments section combines bookkeeping-style visibility with the actions you need to get paid faster.

The three tabs in Payments

InflateMate splits this area into:

• Payments
• Payouts
• Invoices and Quotes

Use each tab for a different job instead of treating Payments like one long ledger.

1. Use the Payments tab for booking-level financial tracking

The Payments tab is where you review booking ledgers.

You can search, filter, and sort by details such as:

• payment status
• booking status
• date range
• outstanding balance
• event date ordering

This is the best place to answer questions like:

• which bookings still owe money
• which jobs are fully paid
• what needs follow-up this week

2. Turn on outstanding-only views for collections work

If you are doing collections or pre-event cleanup, focus on bookings with open balances.

That is usually faster than reading every record in the ledger.

Pair this with the booking filters in Bookings when you want both the operational view and the financial view side by side.

3. Connect Stripe from the Payouts tab

The Payouts tab handles your Stripe connection and payout visibility.

If Stripe is not connected yet, InflateMate shows a setup state with a Connect Stripe Account action.

Once connected, this tab is where you monitor payout-related data instead of bouncing into a separate tool.

4. Use Invoices and Quotes for customer-facing payment documents

The Invoices and Quotes tab is where customer-facing billing documents live.

Use it when you need to:

• review invoice history
• check quote records
• support a customer who says they never received a billing document

This works best alongside the booking details actions where invoices can also be sent directly.

5. Build a clean payment routine

A strong owner workflow looks like this:

1. Check outstanding balances in Payments
2. Send or resend invoices from the booking or overview workflow
3. Confirm Stripe is connected in Payouts
4. Review invoices and quotes when customers need documentation

Quick tip

If collections are falling behind, the fix is usually a mix of tighter deposit rules in Settings, faster invoice follow-up in Bookings, and regular review of the outstanding balance filters in Payments.