What is an Advanced Rent Payment?

An Advance Rent Payment (or ARP) is a payment you may be asked to make to secure your booking. 

An ARP is like a deposit in that it’s required to secure your booking. However, instead of your ARP being refunded to you at the end of your tenancy like a deposit would be, it is deducted from your final rent instalment instead. 

A prompt to make the payment may appear during the final stage of the booking process, to ensure you secure your booking with your preferred property, room type, and tenancy length. 

Nope! You’ll only be asked to make an ARP if you are booking at one of our properties in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. If you are booking at one of our Scottish properties, you may be required to pay a deposit, which will then be refunded to you at the end of your tenancy. 

You don’t! If you are rebooking your room, no payments are required. You will only be asked to make an ARP if you are booking with us for the first time at one of our properties in England, Northern Ireland, or Wales.  

If you are rebooking your room at one of our Scottish properties, then your existing deposit will carry over to your new booking and will be refunded to you at the end of your tenancy. You will not need to pay an ARP, either.  

If you are unable to make the ARP at the final stage of the booking process, then your booking won’t be confirmed, and you will need to start the process again. It’s important to note that if you decide to make a booking at a later date, the property, room type, and tenancy length you chose before may not be available. 

Once you have made the payment and confirmed that all details of your booking are correct, an account will be created for you and a confirmation email detailing your booking will be sent to you. 

However, your booking is not guaranteed just by making the Advance Rent Payment. You will need to accept the offer of accommodation emailed to you, as well as provide details for your guarantor and any documentation required, to secure your booking. 

It’s also important to note that any additional requests you make on your booking aren’t guaranteed by paying the ARP. Our property teams will try to accommodate additional requests as much as possible.