The counter terminal, driven from the invoice
Typing an amount into a card machine while a customer watches is a small thing that goes wrong often — a transposed figure, a payment against the wrong job, or a receipt nobody can match at the end of the day.
BOOKAR connects to your Dojo terminals. Take the payment from the invoice on screen: the amount goes to the terminal, the customer taps, and the payment comes back against the job. No keying, no matching, no guessing which invoice the receipt belonged to.
Live integration — connect your Dojo terminals to your BOOKAR garage.
Dojo in BOOKAR — at a glance
- Terminals
- Synced from your Dojo estate
- Taking payment
- Amount sent from the invoice
- Per user
- A default terminal for each member of staff
- Status
- Live session status, with cancel
- Reconciliation
- Automatic, against the job
What the Dojo integration does
The counter is where the day's takings are won or lost administratively. This joins the terminal to the invoice.
Terminal sync
Your Dojo terminals are pulled into BOOKAR, so front desk staff pick a machine from a list rather than working out which one is which.
Payment from the invoice
Start the payment in BOOKAR and the amount is sent to the terminal. The customer taps; nobody types a figure in.
A default terminal per user
Each member of staff can have their own default terminal, so the counter, the workshop and the office are not fighting over one machine.
Live session status
See the payment progress as it happens, and cancel a session cleanly if the customer changes their mind or the card is declined.
Signature capture
Where a signature is required, it is captured and stored against the transaction rather than on a slip in a drawer.
Reconciled by webhook
Dojo confirms the result back to BOOKAR, so the invoice is marked paid against the right job without anyone reconciling receipts later.
From the job to Dojo and back
Four steps, all of them inside the work your team is already doing.
Connect Dojo
Add your Dojo credentials to your BOOKAR garage and sync the terminals in your estate.
Pick a terminal
Set a default terminal per user, so the right machine is selected before anyone has to think about it.
Take the payment
Open the invoice, start the payment, and the amount appears on the terminal for the customer to tap.
Job marked paid
Dojo confirms the result and BOOKAR records the payment against the invoice automatically.
Why garages turn it on
Counter payments are quick until something goes wrong — and when it does, it costs an hour at the end of the day to find out what.
- No amounts typed into a card machine by hand
- Every payment tied to the invoice that produced it
- A queue-free counter at four o'clock on a Friday
- Live status, so nobody is asking whether it went through
- Signatures captured digitally, not on paper
- Takings that reconcile without a manual matching exercise
About Dojo
Dojo is a UK payments provider built for face-to-face business, supplying card machines to tens of thousands of businesses along with online payments and pay-by-link.
Its terminals are designed to be driven by other software rather than used in isolation, which is what makes an integration like this one worthwhile — the till, the invoice and the terminal all agree.
Visit DojoDojo — the facts
- Use case
- Card terminal payments at the counter
- Terminals
- Synced into BOOKAR per garage
- Also supports
- Pay by link
- Reconciliation
- Webhook-driven, against the invoice
Common questions about Dojo
Do I need new terminals?
No — the integration works with the Dojo terminals you already have. BOOKAR syncs your estate and lets staff choose from it.
Can different staff use different terminals?
Yes. Each user can have a default terminal, which is how most garages keep the counter machine and the workshop machine out of each other's way.
What happens if a payment is declined?
The session status comes back to BOOKAR, so the front desk sees it immediately and can cancel or retry. The invoice is only marked paid on a confirmed result.
The rest of the stack
BOOKAR connects to the suppliers, data providers and payment platforms a UK garage already runs on.
See Dojo working inside BOOKAR
Book a demo and we will show you the integration on a real job, using the suppliers and systems your garage already uses. No obligation, and no scripted tour.
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