We often get questions from customers on how to get started in accepting online payments for their business or non-profit. Let’s review some of the options you can use with Formstack including a quick comparison chart.
One of the most powerful aspects of Formstack is the ability to use multiple payment processors, third party integrations, and other submit actions. A submit action is an action that takes place after the user hits the submit button. These include redirects to other websites, custom thank you pages, and the passing on of online form data to other applications, such as payment processors, CRM systems, email service providers, etc. You could, for example, pass on data to Salesforce, Authorize.net, Mailchimp and Google Spreadsheets in a single online form.
A good online order form is short, easy to fill out, asks for the least amount of information possible, and avoids frustrating the end-user. If someone is filling out your order form, they’ve already decided to purchase your product. You don’t want to change their mind by presenting them with a form that presents any sort of challenges.
This week we will be introducing many new features and upgrades made to most of our integrations that will allow for new options and easier set-up on the customer side of the integration.
PayPal Pro Integration
You can use one payment option, such as PayPal, on your order form, or you can use two or more payment options. Each payment option will need to be set up separately under Settings > Payment Integration.
For the last two weeks, I’ve been blogging about creating some basic order forms with Formstack. We’ve covered both single item and multi-item forms. This week, I thought I’d go back to a single item form, but this time show how to calculate tax, shipping, and a total, all on the form, instead of on the payment integration page.
We get a lot of questions here at Formstack about setting up basic order forms, so I thought over the next several weeks I could get a little more in-depth with order forms here in the blog than we do in our support documentation. For today, I’m going to show you how to build a simple single-item form and integrate it with Paypal.
Whether through live chat, or other support channels we are constantly learning how our customers are using the many tools within Formstack to create online forms that help manage their businesses. So we find it amazing when we run across a customer like Crumbs and Doilies, a UK-based cupcake company, and see just how far they have integrated Formstack forms into their business. They are using every trick in the playbook to create powerful online forms that truly help them manage and operate their business.
The long-awaited addition of Google Checkout to Formstack is here, you can now use this payment processor on your order forms, event registrations, online donations, etc., in addition to PayPal, Authorize.Net and LinkPoint. While anyone can use Google Checkout, just like Paypal, the service will be of special interest to nonprofits. Google Checkout for Non-Profits has announced that they will process donations made with credit or debit cards for free until 2009. They also have no monthly, setup or gateway fees, meaning 100% of the online donations you accept through Google Checkout go straight to you, the nonprofit.
Many of you are already using PayPal integration on your forms to accept payments, but our recent update gives you the potential to do more than ever before with PayPal. You can now send data for single or multiple items to PayPal as opposed to only a single item in the past. Also new are options for non-profit donations and recurring subscriptions. Whether you want to use our forms to create an order form, take donations for a charity or charge a monthly fee for a service, Formstack has you covered.
