Copy and photos
If they only learn the deposit is nonrefundable in 8pt after they tap pay, you wrote a trap.
Deposits are allowed. Hidden deposits are how you earn chargebacks and bad GBP. Cipher will bury the rule in a FAQ if you let it. Put the rule next to the action.
State the amount or percent, what it reserves, whether it comes off the final bill, and cancel/no-show rules in the same section as the book/buy action. Then charge only that.
Amount
Dollars or percent, not "a small hold." If checkout takes 100%, do not call it a deposit. Shops page.
What it holds
A chair, a date, materials. Nouns.
Cancel
Hours of notice, whether any of it comes back. Not legal advice. Mean it.
Salon versus sofa
Same clarity, different nouns. The salon website article is a trade. This is the sentence.
Footer tricks
Do not rely on terms the customer cannot see on a phone before pay. Trust: readable terms.
We do not sync calendars
Empty. If you need that, another vendor's public pricing. Do not imply a live chair inventory we did not ship.
Limits and caveats
Card-on-file and deposit law vary. Hire a lawyer for real risk. We host the sentence.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Copy and photos. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
Can Cipher write the deposit as optional-sounding?
It might soften it. Put the hard rule back. Turns.
Is a deposit a from-price?
No. From is a job floor. Deposit is money now to hold a slot or a make.
No-show fee versus deposit?
Call the one you will actually charge. Do not list both if you only do one.
Overnight jobs changing deposits?
Only if the brief changes. Keep the brief as the source.