How do I charge employers for job posts, and keep what they pay?

On the console’s Payments page, the board’s owner presses Connect Stripe. JobClay asks Stripe for a new account under the email you sign in with, using Stripe’s own defaults and no country, and sends you to Stripe’s hosted onboarding. There you pick the country and give Stripe what it asks for: every detail it will eventually need, not only those due today. Stripe, not JobClay, checks them.

Stripe then sends you back to Payments, which reads the account’s state and keeps it current from Stripe’s events. Once the line under Card payments says your account can take card payments, tick Employers can pay by card and save it.

You copy no API key and add no webhook in Stripe: Stripe Connect sends the account’s payment events to JobClay.

When an employer pays by card, JobClay opens a Stripe checkout on your account, priced in your board’s currency and with no application fee. It takes cards only and asks for a billing address.

Once Stripe reports the payment, the order takes Stripe’s own amounts, so the invoice matches the charge. The credits are added, the invoice is issued, and an order.paid event goes to each webhook address set to receive it. A job published with a paid credit goes live even when the board is at its live-job limit.

An unpaid checkout expires after 31 minutes and cancels its order. Remind employers who leave a card checkout, on by default, then emails them a link to pay again, about an hour and again about 24 hours after they placed the order. Refunds start in your Stripe Dashboard: when Stripe reports one, or a lost dispute, JobClay issues a credit note and takes back the unused credits.

A monthly or yearly package is sold by card alone, so employers see it only while your board takes cards. Each renewal Stripe collects on your account becomes a paid order of its own, with fresh credits and an invoice; one it has not collected grants nothing while Stripe retries it.

The retries are Stripe’s, set in your Dashboard under Billing, Revenue recovery, Retries. Also turn on Send emails when card payments fail, with its link to a Stripe-hosted page: Stripe then emails the employer after each failed attempt, and on that page they can change the card and pay what is due. JobClay sends no failed-payment emails.

Stripe does not retry some payments, among them cards issued in India and payments of a disconnected Connect account, and your Stripe settings decide what happens after the last retry.

Bank transfer needs no Stripe account. Tick Employers can pay by bank transfer and write your payment instructions, the account details and what to put as the reference; the switch will not save without them. Employers see them on their order, beside its number and total.

The order waits under Orders as Awaiting payment. When the money arrives, open the order, add a note if you like, press Mark paid and confirm: the credits are added once and the invoice is issued. Any admin can do this; only the owner changes the Payments page.

A transfer that never comes is cancelled from the same page. One marked paid by mistake takes a credit note, which removes the unused credits.

Stripe’s global availability page lists the countries and regions it supports, with more to come, and says a business in one of them can sell to customers anywhere. It marks India and Indonesia as Preview, both entries leading to Stripe’s sales team rather than a sign-up. Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa are listed as its Extended network, and their entries link to paystack.com, not to a Stripe sign-up. The page defines neither label.

JobClay connects a Stripe account and nothing else, so where Stripe will not open one for you, run the board on bank transfer alone: employers buy one-off packages and you mark each paid. Subscription packages stay hidden and job seeker Premium cannot be switched on, since both need a card. Until its account is ready, a board priced in Indian rupees is told on its Payments page that Stripe India is by invitation only and that bank transfer always works. Cards are also off for boards priced in Icelandic króna or Ugandan shillings.

Every paid order gets one invoice, whether paid by card, by transfer or with a coupon that takes the whole price. Until Legal name and Legal address are filled in under Invoice details, employers cannot place an order and no order can be marked paid.

Invoices are numbered from your prefix in a sequence that never restarts, dated in your board’s time zone and formatted for its locale. Each keeps the details it was issued with, says how it was paid, and never changes: a correction is a credit note. Employers download theirs from the employer area.