Getting paid

In Settings → Payments, connect your account through Stripe. Once it’s active you can accept card payments and receive payouts directly to your bank — no separate processor to set up.

Send an invoice and the customer opens a secure pay page branded to your business, then pays by card through Stripe-hosted checkout. The invoice is marked paid automatically and a receipt is emailed.

Customers can add a tip on the pay page — preset percentages or their own amount, shown as its own line. Tips go to you in full: they’re never surcharged and the platform fee never touches them. After paying, the customer can download a branded PDF receipt that itemizes the amount applied to the invoice, any card surcharge, the checkout fee, and the tip.

Meridian is free to run — no subscription, no per-user fees. You keep 100% of every invoice: a small checkout fee (the flat 1% platform fee plus card processing) is added to your customer’s payment, not taken out of your payout.

AI and messaging usage (texts, emails, AI features) is billed at cost plus a small margin — so if you don’t use those, there’s nothing to pay. You can choose to absorb card processing yourself under Settings → Payments.

If your business owes someone a share of revenue — an acquisition royalty, a franchise fee, a referral commission — set it up once under Accounting → Revenue share: name the payee and the percentage owed per job channel (a tag you can set on any job), with an optional flat fallback rate.

Choose how often it runs. Monthly (the default) generates a statement on the 1st for the prior calendar month. Weekly generates one every Monday for the prior Monday–Sunday week — for agreements that settle weekly. Either way the statement arrives queued as unpaid, ready for you to pay; Meridian never pays it for you.

A statement is built from your actual collected payments for that period. Refunds, pass-through gratuities, and pro-rated sales tax are excluded from the base. Each statement itemizes every job — channel, gross collected, rate, and the share owed — so agreements that require per-job reporting are satisfied out of the box.

Owners and accounting are notified when a statement is ready; mark it paid (with a reference note) once you’ve sent the money. You can also generate the last period’s statement on demand — it uses the same math and never double-creates. Switching an agreement between weekly and monthly only affects future periods; statements you already have are left exactly as they are.