# Payment failed email template

> Explore this payment failed email template for travel and hospitality. Preview its status, three key details, and next action.

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Transactional Billing & payments

# Payment failed email template

Accommodation booking held after a deposit payment fails.
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- [Starting copy ↓](#template-copy-heading)
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Illustrative example. Replace the fictional sender, dates, amounts, locations, and account details before use.
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Message anatomy

## A useful starting point, with the important parts named.

**Format**
: Transactional email
**Best for**
: Accommodation booking held after a deposit payment fails
**Industry fit**
: Travel & hospitality · Retail & commerce
Your bank declined the £120 deposit. We kept the garden room aside for 24 hours, so you can retry without starting the booking again.

### What you can change

- Brand name
- Subject line
- Preheader
- Eyebrow
- Headline
- Supporting copy
- Primary action label
- Primary action URL

### What to keep clear

- State or event context
- Plain-language explanation
- Three labelled facts
- Primary and secondary action
- Support or privacy footer
Complete starting copy

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**From**
: Greenstep Rooms
**Subject**
: We could not take the room deposit
**Preheader**
: The room is still held until 18:00 tomorrow; retry or use another card.
Booking GR-285 · Payment needed

### The room is held. The deposit did not go through.

Your bank declined the £120 deposit. We kept the garden room aside for 24 hours, so you can retry without starting the booking again.

#### Room

Garden double · 14–17 October

#### Deposit

£120.00

#### Held until

Tomorrow · 18:00
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