Payments and Payouts

Guests pay for a booking by card, and Finding Retreats collects that payment through Stripe. Finding Retreats never stores card numbers. Your share is not routed through a Stripe account of your own. It is sent to the payout method you choose in account settings, a bank account, PayPal or Wise, the day after your retreat starts, with the platform fee already deducted.

This section covers the two things most hosts ask about once they start taking bookings: how to add a payout method, and how to keep track of what you are owed and what has been paid. Adding a payout method is a one-time step under Payments in your account settings. Bank accounts are verified with two small micro-deposits; PayPal and Wise only need the email address on that account. After that, the payouts dashboard is the place to check pending, scheduled and completed payouts and the fees taken out of each booking.

Tax information lives alongside your payout setup. Depending on where you're based, you'll be asked for details Finding Retreats uses for reporting purposes, and at year-end you can find any tax documents made available to you. The two guides below walk through both parts: getting paid, and keeping records straight.