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Nice, One thing that is missing from all these appointment bookings api's and webhooks is letting us bring our own payment solutions. Webhook for creating a booking but not accepted until they pay. After creating a booking have them redirect to my payment page with a callback url when payment is finished?

Lots of ways to accomplish this feature. NO I DONT WANT TO USE STRIPE!

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hey, peer here, cofounder of cal.com. We're in the middle of writing a generic payment adaptor which will enable Stripe, PayPal, RazorPay, Lightning Network, ...

should be live this quarter

Thanks for your work - found out about cal.com a few weeks ago (don't remember how maybe HN or a random cal.com link just wondering what it is [initially thought it was uc berkeley related]) and it seems to work well for my intended purposes. I'm just curious what the intended use case is for a payment adaptor - it's not something that's come up for me yet. Edit: Is it just having folks pay for the meeting time or more than that

it is to allow people to charge for their bookings. we currently run stripe connect, because thats the easiest but we want to extend it to other payment services.

for example therapists, coaches, gym trainers, etc use paid bookings

Hey Peer_Rich - do you have a contact email? I've got something I want to run by you as a niche payments provider.

sure! peer@cal.com or cal.com/peer

Which payment solution do you [want to] use then?

I want to integrate my own, for my own services, for my own clients services. I own a payments agency and I write custom payment integrations. I want control of the payment flow.

you can select the setting "Require Confirmation" and then use webhooks to send your payment link via email or use the "redirect after confirmation" to put your payment gate and connect it

Thanks for pointing this out. But I didn't see that in the webhooks or api. I didn't see something for pending.

you can use LNCal.com and you'll get exactly that but you'll be paid in Bitcoin!

oh thats sick! let me get in touch with the team. looks like a fun project

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