Balance on arrival is the sum still due once she is inside, paid at the start in euro, in foreign notes at a figure agreed in writing, by card or in crypto.
Balance on arrival is the name for the second of the two payments a booking can involve, and on most bookings it amounts to exactly half the fee. It is the sum outstanding at the moment she steps inside, and it is settled there and then, at the beginning, before anything else in the evening is unpacked.
Nuru has a practical reason for keeping money to the opening minutes. After the gel is out and the cover is on the bed, hands are seldom dry enough to count notes or steady a phone for a card terminal, and nobody wishes to interrupt a long glide for a transaction. The account is closed first, so that nothing remains to be remembered at the end except a shower.
Every figure is in euro, and the euro figure is the price of the booking. Banknotes in another major currency are accepted too: the exact amount in that currency is confirmed to you in writing before she sets out, so a traveller who landed with dollars or pounds need not go hunting for a cash machine at two in the morning, and there is nothing to work out in the room beyond counting. A card is equally welcome at the door, and so is crypto.
Where a deposit has cleared, the sum still owing mirrors it. Three hours leave half of three hours' fee for the room; a first ninety minutes leaves half of ninety minutes' fee; two hours reserved the day before leave the price of one hour, which is half of two. Just one booking reaches the door with nothing yet paid, and so with the whole price as its balance: one or two hours today, with one therapist, for a client the house already knows. It is an exception, deliberately narrow, and never the ordinary shape of things.
A deposit is never paid at this second moment. Notes are handed over in person, so they can appear no earlier than she does, which is precisely why they belong to the balance and not to the half sent ahead. Each rung is listed in the rates table on every therapist profile, and the frequently asked questions cover smaller matters such as currencies.