If a damage deposit is required for boats at your event, there are two approaches that you can take to collect payment information: online and in person.
If your participants are all going through online registration, you can simply require a payment method on file during the registration flow. That way, if you need to charge for damage at a later time, you'll already have that card on file and you can do it quickly and easily from the Clubspot Dashboard.
When your participants are arriving on-site, you can use the Point of Sale app to add a card-on file in person. If you want to actually hold the funds on the sailor's card (eg. have it show up on the customer's bank statement as a hold) then you can even run an authorization for - but not capture - the full charge. This guarantees that there are sufficient funds on the card, but it does require you to capture the funds relatively quickly (eg. within 48-72 hours) or else the hold expires automatically.
<aside> 💡 Online may be easier to implement (just flick a switch on) but taking payment method in-person triple checks that the card on file actually has sufficient funds to cover the deposit.
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