# Add security deposits (2 min)

How to easily add deposits (3 min).

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If you are renting out highly valuable products it's advisable to add a **security deposit** for every booking happening. You have to use our deposite item type. The deposit item type has 0% tax rate by default and shows the deposit outside of the tax relevant cart and invoice total amount, because it is no tax and invoice relevant thing.

### Setup

1 )To add a deposit automatically to each booking create a new one first via the creation menu:

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2) Then describe the deposit like any other and set the price to **per item** to only add it once and not based on time. Tax rate has to be 0%.

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3) Lastly navigate to the availability settings of your deposit article and add the products you wish to add the deposit automatically to, once a rental is added to cart.

Once you created a deposit, it can be used for all products by adding individual articles or groups to the list.