How Zoyn works, step by step
Plain answers about payment links, payments, fees, your team and your payout wallet. You do not need an account to read them.
Getting started
- Onboarding walkthrough
The steps between signing up and submitting your application.
- Approval timeline and what to expect
From application submitted to your dashboard going live.
- Emails when you joined through a referral partner
Which emails may carry your partner's branding, and which always come from Zoyn alone.
- Choosing which emails Zoyn sends you
The notification preferences, and the emails no preference can switch off.
- Creating your first payment link
From an approved account to a URL a buyer can pay.
Payment links
- Creating a payment link
Every field in the create dialog and what it controls.
- Payment link lifecycle and statuses
Waiting for payment, Done, Expired, Cancelled — and what you can change after creation.
Payments
- Where your money sits, and how it reaches your wallet
What a settlement contract is, what a distribution is, and how money reaches you.
- How money reaches you: settlement, then your wallet
The two hops — buyer into your payment contract, contract into your payout wallet.
- Payment statuses explained
Every status a payment can hold and what moves it forward.
- A buyer paid outside the checkout page
Direct wallet transfers are not recognized as payments — what happens to the money and how to reconcile.
- Why a buyer's payment can fail
The four ways a payment goes wrong, what each one looks like in your dashboard, and what to do.
- Paying by card: limits and fees
Who sets card and bank limits and fees, what your buyer sees before paying, and how long a bank transfer takes.
- A buyer wants their money back, or disputes a card payment
What Zoyn can and cannot do, how you send a refund yourself, and who handles a card dispute.
Team and roles
- Roles and permissions
Shop owner, Location manager, Team leader, Cashier, Bookkeeper — who can do what.
- Inviting and managing team members
Invites, role changes, and removing access.
- Working with your accountant
Give your accountant read-only access, and hand them files their software imports directly.
- Locations
Adding sites, per-location payout wallets and keys, and archiving.
- Reading your audit trail
Where the record of who changed what on your account lives, and what each column means.
Payout wallet and Checkout account
- Your payout wallet
Address on file versus where your money actually settles.
- Changing your payout wallet
Owner-only, deliberate, and done in one step.
Billing and fees
- How fees work
A per-transaction rate, taken on the payment network, with no invoices.
- Requested fee changes
Zoyn proposes; the workspace owner accepts or declines.
- Reading your billing history
The per-payment ledger of gross, fee, and net.
- Reports
What each report shows, and why every date range is rolling rather than calendar.
Account status
- Account statuses explained
Every state your account can be in and how to move forward.
Compliance
- Prohibited industries
What we can and cannot onboard.
Already using Zoyn?
Once you sign in, the help center in your dashboard also covers your own setup: your web address, your checkout account, and what to do about a message on your account. Open help in your dashboard. Can't find an answer? Contact us.
