I want to make sure there is a way to securely charge a customer their remaining balance without having them manually having to do it.
I'm looking to avoid the scenario where they pay for the initial 1st half and then either take their sweet time getting to the 2nd half or avoiding all together in which case creates major issues on our end.

I asked about this sort of feature a year ago and someone at Woocommerce mentioned saving credit card info was on the road map but with no ETA. I feel like this sort of feature is also handy for businesses that review all orders before processing them. Making it to where you can capture their charge, review the order, then charge their card if everything checks out.

I would like it so that I could allow clients to make partial payments or a deposit for reservations for Bookings. I don't think that this is currently possible. This may complicate things also since you'd need the option for a non-refundable amount and that amount refunded could be based on the time before the reservation. For example if someone cancels a week in advance then they may lose 10% of their deposit, but if it were just a day before then they would lose 100% of their deposit. Also, you'd need to be able to cancel that booking to allow for a new booking, but still show it on the list as cancelled.

Fixed Payment Plan Full-Payment Deadline Dates:
For merchants who sell a dated event or a dated high end travel tour (like us), or any service with a fixed payment deadline, we need to receive payment in full by a certain set date, and it isn't always 6 months out from date of purchase. For example, we sell an annual travel tour to India each February and need full payments by January 4. For those who are registering and paying deposits in June, they would have a 6 month payment plan. Someone who pays deposit and started a payment plan in October would have a three month payment plan. The monthly payment would be less if they start payment plan earlier, and more if they start later. We need full payment to pay vendors in India. Make sense? Thank you!

Can the team please look into implementing automated reminder email functionality into the Deposits plugin (very similar to your Subscriptions plugin reminder emails) as this automation of communication with the buyer will go a long way to improving the experience of the Deposits process.

Allowing the shop owners to set the number of days prior to Order/Booking Completion will also be valuable. Ie. someone orders a product for 1st December 2019, pays the deposit at the time of purchase, and then there is an automated email reminder sent 7 days prior to the order being completed (set by the shop owner) to complete the payment. This 'reminder date' functionality is also available within the Subscriptions plugin.

Here's a problem I am facing. I am building a mobile app design website and I need to be able to collect a 50% deposit of the $1,995 setup fee to start building a mobile app, and then collect the other 50% of the deposit when the app is finished. I will also collect a $99 monthly payment for the maintenance fee starting after the app is finished. While the scenario I've outlined above applies for my particular application, it would also be the perfect scenario for other types of services, such as web design fee with a monthly hosting fee, so I think it could be a popular plugin with many people.

I am using WooCommerce Subscriptions for the monthly subscription payments and I want to use WooCommerce Deposits to split the startup fee. However, Deposits is set to split the product price of a WooCommerce product, not the Subscriptions Sign-up fee. Because of that, it charges the full signup fee and wants to split the monthly payment. I need to have it split the WooCommerce Subscriptions Sign-up fee and leave the monthly price alone.

I don't know how hard it would be to change the field it splits, but it would make checkout so much easier if this change could be made. Is it a huge deal to change the Deposits plugin to look and see if Subscriptions is active and if so, change it to use the Sign-up fee field of Subscriptions to split instead of the product price of Woo Commerce or give the developer the option as to which price to split?

Please mark your vote on the suggestion page in Subscriptions to maximize the vote count. http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/18305461-woocommerce-deposits-and-woocommerce-subscriptions

I was surprised to find there is no filter available for the text that is displayed on the front end for deposits. In order to override the text I would need to setup a whole translation file just for this, use the 'Say What?' plugin or hack some javascript. A very simple solution would be to add a filter to lines 112 and 114 of /woocommerce-deposits/includes/class-wc-deposits-product-manager.php

You could, for example replace lines 111-114 as such:
$descriptionraw = ( 'percent' === $type ) ? ( 'Pay a %1$s deposit per %2$s', 'woocommerce-deposits' ) : ( 'Pay a deposit of %1$s per %2$s', 'woocommerce-deposits' );
return sprintf( applyfilters( 'woocommercedepositdescription', $description_raw, $type ), '' . $amount . '', $item );

This would be awesome, thanks!