The phrase "a small payment on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a partial payment made towards a larger amount owed, often in financial or transactional contexts.
Example: "I made a small payment on my credit card bill this month to reduce the outstanding balance."
Alternatives: "a minor payment towards" or "a partial payment for".
She comes down, as you might expect, in favour of incentive payments to donors, and suggests four basic models:1 A forward market for cadaver organs (I like this one) in which you sign up to have your organs harvested at death, and receive a small payment on signing or a large one to your estate when you die 2 A centralised single compensator.
The booksellers would get a small payment on each sale and a commission on all e-books that the reader buys in the next two years.
These practices had volunteered to take part in the PRISMATIC trial, committing themselves to using the tool for a fixed time period, and receiving a small payment to acknowledge the additional demands on time of practice staff associated with participation in the study.
On people-search sites, a few clicks (and sometimes a small payment) will unlock information on just about anybody.
The idea was to give visitors different ways to access paywalled content, whether that's making a small payment, promoting the article on Twitter or viewing an ad.
For example, if you took out a loan to pay for tuition at the beginning of the school year, but are working at the same time or otherwise have a means to begin making small payments on the loan before graduation.
Yet for merchants and consumers they are expensive both for very small payments on the Internet, and for very large ones.
If Congress does not approve more money, it is possible that the net result of all that spending will be better regular train service in many areas, and a small down payment on one bullet train, in California.
Clients pay it off through small payments on mobile money platforms such Safaricom's M-PESA.
Sometimes, people prefer to make small payments on their own, even if it means their name stays on the list, he said.
This is a small down payment on a project that could ultimately cost $20 billion.
