Buyer validation
Partial PaymentsCollect Payment Upfront.Reduce COD Risk.
Take a small token amount from the customer at checkout and collect the remaining balance on delivery. Genuine buyers commit, non-serious ones drop out, and the parcel you ship is one somebody has already paid for.
- Reduce fake COD orders
- Lower RTO & return losses
- Improve cash flow
- Increase customer trust
- Works with all products
- Set flexible rules
Secure your order with Partial Payment
Place order
Paid securely through your store’s own gateway
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Why use partial payments?
A smarter way to handle COD orders
A small upfront payment filters out the orders that were never going to be accepted, and starts recovering your costs before the parcel leaves.
- Reduce fake orders
70%+
Only serious buyers place orders
- Lower RTO
40%+
Lower return-to-origin losses
- Better cash flow
Money upfront
Collected even on COD orders
- Increase conversions
25%+
With higher buyer trust
How partial payments work
Simple. Flexible. Effective.
Turn a risky cash-on-delivery order into a secured one with a single small payment at checkout.
- 1
Customer places order
Adds products to the cart and proceeds to checkout as usual.
- 2
Pays a small amount now
A fixed amount or a percentage, paid online through your gateway.
- 3
Order is confirmed & shipped
You ship with confidence, because only genuine buyers got this far.
- 4
Customer pays the remaining
The balance is collected as cash on delivery, exactly as before.
Result: Only genuine buyers continue → Lower RTO → Higher profits
Product demo
See partial payments in action
Watch how COD King collects an upfront amount at checkout and protects your store from orders nobody intended to accept.
- Flexible rules based on % or fixed amount
- Collect shipping charges upfront
- Works on selected products, collections or your whole store
- Easy setup — enable it in one click
Key features
Everything you need to make cash-on-delivery orders safer and more profitable.
Flexible rules
Set the partial payment as a percentage of the cart or a fixed value.
Offer a discount
Apply a discount to prepaid or partial-payment orders to nudge buyers.
Cover shipping charges
Collect the shipping cost upfront so a refused parcel costs you less.
Product & collection based
Enable it for specific products, collections or tags rather than everything.
Custom messaging
Show your own text at checkout to explain the deposit and build confidence.
Easy to configure
Enable it in minutes from the dashboard. No coding, no theme edits.
Best suited for
Custom products
T-shirts, mugs
High shipping cost items
Furniture, appliances
Refurbished products
Made-to-order items
All COD-heavy stores
Frequently asked questions
Every rule and message here is set from the COD King dashboard — no theme edits, no code.
Partial payment lets you collect a small token amount — a fixed sum or a percentage of the cart — from the customer at checkout, and collect the remaining balance on delivery. It filters out buyers who were never going to accept the parcel, which reduces fake orders and RTO while bringing some of your money in earlier.
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