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title: "Can offline payments affect my Pet Sitter ranking?"
description: "Saying “no” to Offline Payments (payments outside of the Mad Paws platform) will help your search rankings in two ways. Firstly, as you likely already know, we maintain a zero tolerance policy for Sitters who accept Offline Payments. Needless to say, it’s hard to ascend the Pet Sitter search rankings if your profile has been suspended."
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# Can offline payments affect my Pet Sitter ranking?

Saying “no” to Offline Payments (payments outside of the Mad Paws platform) will help your search rankings in two ways. Firstly, as you likely already know, we maintain a zero tolerance policy for [Sitters who accept Offline Payments](https://www.madpaws.com.au/blog/offline-payments/). Needless to say, it’s hard to ascend the Pet Sitter search rankings if your profile has been suspended. 

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Secondly - and this links back to Tip #1 - Online Payments will lead to a higher Completion Rate, Repeat Customer Rate, and Repeat Booking Rate. These improved metrics will mean a happy algorithm, and a happy algorithm will mean a rankings boost for you!