In Reservation view by 'Create Payment' button you will end up in Payment view:
At the top of the page are Payments/Invoices and Save button.
Save is used for creating the payment.
Payments/Invoices is used if you want to see all previous payments and invoices and especially if you want to make a payment for a previously created invoice.
These ar the fields in order from top left:
Pay for: By default 'Reservation' meaning pay everything in the reservation, to change this select option in dropdown or click the pen' icon. See next image for more info.
Amount: Amount of the payment, by default the balance of the reservation
Payment method: Select payment method here
Reference/Transaction: Any id of the payment, this field is mandatory if you manually create a payment. For payments that are completed in external systems e.g. payment links or Nitesoft cashier payments this field should not be filled in
Date: Date the payment was done, by default today
Payer: Name on receipt. By default the reservation contact, to edit click dropdown or "pen" icon. See last image for more info.
Reason/Comment: Comment displayed on receipt
Show previous payments and total amount in receipt: If the receipt should be for this payment only or if previous payments should be displayed and deducted from the bill.
Below the fields is section Reservation summary displaying:
Pay for total: The outstanding balance of the reservation
Reservation total: The total amount of the reservation
Paid: The amount that is previously paid
Invoiced: The amount that is previously invoiced
There are 4 options on what to pay for:
Reservation: will include everything in the reservation
Guest: will split the costs in the reservation for each guest
Extra: will display all extras per type
Advanced: will show all room nights, extras and services of the reservation
The yellow checkboxes is the items you want to pay for, click 'Back' when you are done with your selection.
After clicking done the "Amount" field will be prefilled with the total amount of the items you selected.
If you want to edit 'Payer' it will open the "Payer editor" in the left column.
This form work in the same way as Reservation contact form, i.e. Company and Person fields are search fields were you can search in customer database.