Where a Manual Payment's Method and Reference Show Up Later
Where a recorded manual payment's method and reference appear on a booking: the Audit Log timeline and the "Collected by" summary on the Payment & Refunds tab.
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Once a manual payment is recorded, the method and reference you entered aren't just stored, they're visible in two places on the booking: the Audit Log and the Payment & Refunds tab.
Who can use it: anyone who can open the booking drawer can see the Audit Log; the Payment & Refunds tab reads the same way it does for card bookings.
The Audit Log tab
Open the booking (Bookings › Amenity Bookings › the booking row) and switch to the Audit Log tab. Every manual payment appears as its own timeline entry, newest first, showing the amount, the method, the reference (if you entered one), and who recorded it.
For example: "Manual payment recorded $45.00" with the detail line "Cheque · Ref CHQ-1042 · by Dana Whitfield", timestamped to the moment it was confirmed.
If the booking has a deferred deposit that's collected manually later, that shows up as its own entry too, for example "Manual payment recorded $150.00" with "Cash · Deposit collected when it came due · by Dana Whitfield."
The "Collected by" summary on Payment & Refunds
Switch to the Payment & Refunds tab and the top of the panel shows a Collected by summary instead of the Stripe payment link a card booking would show: the method on one line, the reference (if any) beside it.
This is also where the individual price lines pick up their own method note once a deposit is collected separately from the initial payment, for example a deposit line reading "Cheque · Ref CHQ-1042" beneath its amount.
Why this matters
Neither of these is optional bookkeeping. The reference you enter at booking time is often the only detail that lets staff, weeks later, match a cheque in the bank statement or an e-transfer confirmation back to the exact booking it paid for.