A Razorpay payment link is a web address you send to a client so they can pay you by UPI, card or wallet. You create it, share it, and Razorpay tells you when it is paid. For a counsellor with a handful of clients it works well. As the number of clients grows, the cost is not the link but the steps around it: sending it, waiting, matching the payment to a session, and holding the slot until it arrives.
This guide explains how payment links work for counselling sessions, what to check on razorpay.com, and how a booking page that takes payment at booking changes the routine. Facts about Razorpay below were read from its payment links page on 21 October 2026; check razorpay.com for the current version.
How a payment link works
According to Razorpay's payment links page, you create a link from the Razorpay dashboard, or through its API if you have a developer, and share it with the person paying. The page lists cards, UPI and wallets among the payment methods, and says customers can pay in instalments or as an advance, where you allow it. You can also get a notification when each payment arrives.
To use it you need a Razorpay account, and Razorpay decides whether to approve one. If you do not have a GST number, the guide on payment gateways without GST covers what to check before you apply.
What a link does well
It needs no website. You can send a link in an email or a message, and the client pays on a page Razorpay hosts.
It suits one-off payments: a single paid consultation, a workshop fee, or a balance for a package.
It works for a client who prefers to pay before they confirm, since you can send the link only after you have agreed a time.
Where it gets tedious in a practice
Each session needs its own step. You agree a time by message, create or choose a link, send it, and then wait. You have to open the dashboard to see whether it was paid, and then mark the slot as confirmed yourself.
The slot is not held. Until the money arrives, the time is either blocked and unpaid, or open and at risk of a double booking.
Matching is manual. The dashboard shows a payment, not a booking, so you connect the two by amount or by name. With a few clients a week this is fine. With twenty it is a part-time job.
Reminders and intake are separate. A payment link does not remind the client about the session or collect intake answers. You do that by hand, or through another tool.
Fees and terms apply. The page showed a limited period with no platform fee, subject to terms, and gave no rate after it. Check current pricing on razorpay.com before you plan around any number, and ask what GST applies on the fee.
Payment at booking is a different routine
A booking page that takes payment at booking turns the order around. The client chooses a time from your availability, pays on the same screen, and only then is the slot confirmed. You do not send anything, and you do not check anything.
On Leshya, clients choose an offering and a time, and pay online at checkout. Leshya uses Razorpay for the payment, so you do not need a separate Razorpay account to start. A receipt goes to both of you. Intake questions go to the client at booking, stored encrypted, and reminders go to the client and to you 24 hours and 1 hour before the session. A failed or abandoned payment releases the slot.
Earnings appear in your account, and you withdraw them to your saved UPI ID after the session's review window. What Leshya charges, and what each plan includes, is on the pricing section of the counsellor page; it is not repeated here.
Which to use
Use a payment link if you take few sessions, want no website, or need to collect an occasional payment such as a workshop fee. Use a booking page with payment at booking if you take regular clients and want the slot, the payment, the reminder and the intake to happen together.
Many counsellors use both: a booking page for regular sessions and a link for exceptions. If you are comparing scheduling tools as well, read our guide to appointment scheduling software.
Common questions
It is a web address you create in Razorpay and share with a client, who can then pay by UPI, card or wallet. Razorpay notifies you when the payment is made.
