Card and eCheck payments for law firms
Consultation fees
and flat fees, paid by textYour fees, paid from a text
RetainerBooked Payments is law firm credit card processing for US firms with 1 to 10 lawyers, included in the flat monthly fee with your intake, website and marketing. Clients pay consultation fees, earned fees and plan installments by card or eCheck.
- Payment plans on saved cards
- Trust money never goes through us
Live in 14 daysMonth to month, no setup fee
- Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- eCheck from the client's bank account
- Three retries on a declined installment
- Reminders until each invoice is paid
- Paid into your operating account
Alicia books an uncontested divorce consultation for Thursday at 2:00, and your firm charges $150 for it. Without a pay link, your receptionist gets the card details on a callback and keys them in later. With Payments, Alicia pays the $150 while booking.
Two calls to collect $150
$150 paid Tuesday night
Your firm's name, never the case
How clients pay
Clients pay from the message your firm sends
Staff type the amount; the client taps Pay.
Your paralegal is texting Paula about Friday's signing meeting when the $600 second payment comes due. They type in the amount, the pay link drops into the same thread, and Paula pays from the phone before replying.
Some clients would rather pay from the website than a text. Your firm's website, built by us, has a Pay button on every page, and those payments reach your operating account too.
A misdemeanor defense at $3,000 becomes six monthly charges of $500 on the client's saved card. Each charge runs on a day you pick, and the plan screen lists which months are paid and which are still open.
Fees, plans and trust money
Each kind of payment, where it belongs
Payments takes consultation fees, earned fees and plan installments into your firm's operating account. Your firm says which charges go there, and anything owed to trust is paid on your own processor's page.
Paid up front
Trust money stays with LawPay
A client signs for hourly work with a $5,000 advance, money that belongs in trust. The text carries your LawPay link, the client pays on LawPay's page, and staff mark it paid.
- Trust accounting stays in Clio or whatever you run
- Your bank's pay link does the same job as LawPay's
On a call
Paid before the call ends
An estate planning client calls the front desk to go ahead with a $1,200 will package. Your receptionist doesn't write down a card number. While they're still talking, your firm's number texts them a pay link, and the payment lands before they hang up.
- Card numbers stay off notepads and out of earshot at the front desk
- The call recording and the pay link share one conversation
Ads
Booked and paid from an ad
A Google ad for DUI defense brings someone searching after an arrest to a landing page built for that ad. They pick Saturday at 10:00, pay your $150 fee on the same page, and your report lists the consultation under that ad, next to what its clicks cost.
- Your ads run in accounts your firm owns, with clicks billed to you by Google
- Each landing page books the consultation and takes the fee too
Between hearings
Billed from the courthouse hallway
The plea hearing ends at 11:40, and the second half of the flat fee is due. Still in the hallway, the attorney opens the staff app and texts the client a link for the $1,500, using your firm's number. It's paid before lunch.
- Clients see your firm's number, never the attorney's own cell
- Replies go to whoever works the intake inbox
Reminders
Due dates, reminded by text
A family law client's invoice for the next stage is due on the 15th. A reminder text and email go out three days ahead, on the day and a week after, each carrying the pay link, and they stop once it's paid.
- Plain wording, signed with your firm's name, never naming the case itself
- Texts go only to clients who agreed to receive them
Last payment
Reviews
The sixth payment clears in June and the matter closes in your case software. That afternoon, as for every client whose matter closes, a text with your review link reaches them.
- Requests go to every client, with no screening by star rating
- Replies never say the reviewer hired your firm
Also included
- Invoices paid online by card
- Saved cards
- Payment plan templates
- Pay links in emails
- QuickBooks Online sync
- Fee policy on booking pages
Payments beside the intake answers
Bradley's record holds the intake answers, the signed retainer and both payments so far. When they call about the plan, your receptionist sees what's paid and what's next.
Two of four paid The next $600 goes on the saved card June 1.
Payment planTied to payments
- Phones The fee settled by text while you're both on the call.
- Website Practice-area pages, attorney bios and a Pay button on each one, all built by our team.
- SEO & AI search Pages that answer what callers search, including what a consultation costs.
- Ads you own Each ad group's own landing page takes the consultation fee at booking, while Google and Meta charge the clicks to accounts your firm owns.
- Texting Pay links and invoice reminders go out from your firm's number, replies to the inbox.
- Consultation booking Each calendar can charge its own fee, or none at all.
- Google reviews Review requests go to the clients you choose once their matter wraps up.
Bring your fees and we set them up
Send us your consultation fees, flat fees and payment plan terms before the demo. There you see your own booking page, pay link text and payment plan, built on those numbers, from $97 a month.
Fees paid on schedule
Wesley T.Managing partner, PI firm, Tulsa Zeropayments retypedFridays used to go to entering each week's payments by hand. Now QuickBooks has them before anyone opens it.
Beatrice V.Founding attorney, Sacramento $150paid at every bookingPaid consultations ended the quick-question calls. People pay $150 when they book, and almost everyone who books shows up on time.
Rashad W.Criminal defense attorney, Atlanta Monthlyon most flat feesMost of our misdemeanor flat fees run on monthly plans now. The card is charged on schedule, so I stopped chasing anyone.
Harriet B.Office manager, Grand Rapids Mondaysback each weekI spent Monday mornings calling about late invoices. Now texts and emails remind clients before each bill is due and after.
Esteban R.Immigration attorney, El Paso Textsfor every installmentMy clients pay their flat fees in installments from a text, and I see which payments are due without opening a spreadsheet.
Lorena F.Intake manager, PI firm, Phoenix Nonecard numbers on paperNobody on my intake team copies card numbers onto paper now. When something's owed, a pay link goes by text.
Payment questions
What firms ask about fees and trust
Search LawPay, installments or QuickBooks to narrow the list.
6 questions
Do you take card and eCheck?
Yes, clients pay with a card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or an eCheck from their bank account. Staff text or email a pay link, attach one to an invoice, or add the fee to a booking page; every payment lands in your firm's operating account.
Can a flat fee be paid in installments?
Yes, a flat fee can become monthly charges on the client's saved card, on dates you pick, and a declined charge gets three more tries.
Does it handle trust money?
No: money that belongs in trust is paid through your own trust processor, LawPay or your bank, and never touches RetainerBooked. Your LawPay link, or your bank's, can go in our texts, emails and the retainer you send; the client pays on that processor's page, and your staff mark it paid. Our payments take consultation fees, earned fees and plan installments, and your firm says which charges go where.
Do payments reach QuickBooks Online?
Yes, payments and invoices taken through RetainerBooked flow into your firm's QuickBooks Online, so nobody retypes them. The trust side isn't part of it: LawPay and your trust account keep their own records, as they do today.
Can callers pay when booking?
Yes, each consultation calendar can take its fee at booking, by card, with your fee policy shown beside the open times. Your firm decides whether that fee is earned or goes to trust under your state's rules.
What does processing cost?
Payments come with every plan, inside the flat monthly fee, and we never take a share of what clients pay you. The processor's card and bank rates are shown at your demo.
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Quinn answers questions on card rates, payment plans and LawPay at sales@retainerbooked.com.
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