Kori Ashton will teach you how to create a simple payment button on your #WordPress Website. You’ll use www.paypal.me to create a custom vanity landing pages to accept payments. Super easy to link over to as well.
Create payment options with Gravity Forms
Full Audio Transcript
Hey y’all, welcome to another WordPress Wednesday. My name is Kori Ashton here at WebTegrity in San Antonio, Texas and we are a WordPress niched web development firm that has this awesome YouTube channel to help you out with all things WordPress. So whether that’s talking about search engine optimization inside of your WordPress website or social media marketing even, but for the most part, our whole channel is about how to improve your WordPress website.
So today we’re looking at a very simple solution on how to add some sort of a payment button to your WordPress website and I’m about to blow your mind with how simple this is. You don’t need the whole shopping cart, especially if you’re just trying to sell a service or gather a payment, maybe from one particular product. So check this out. I’m going to show you here. I’ve got a WordPress website set up where I have a book that I like to sell and then I’ll also show you how to do one for maybe some services with a few different options for payments. So what I want to talk to you about though is Pay-Pal.me. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this yet, but it’s a service by PayPal and basically, you get to get like a vanity URL. So I’m going to show you this. Let me see if I can slide this down for a second and let you see the URL path, so you can go to PayPal.me and you can register totally for free and it gives you a vanity URL. Ours looks like this for WebTegrity. Here’s what’s cool about this though. You don’t want to leave this open in it for them to be able to type in whatever dollar amount they want. What you can do with this service, which is mind-blowing, is actually in the URL path, set the dollar amount in there, so if we typed in 11.99 it would actually present this and allow it to automatically have in the dollar amount. So here’s the trick. Are you ready?
This is so cool and easy. Here we go. So we’re going to go back to our products page, we’re going to go into our product here and where it says “buy now” 11.99 , we want to come up here and grab that URL path come over here and we want to add in our link. Now you can add in additional options here for it to open up in a separate window if you like, but I’ll write the nerd code inside of here and I’m gonna click update and show you what that looks like. Then on the front side of things, I click refresh. I have a Buy Now option here when I click on that. It takes me immediately over to my branded landing page that says 11.99 and I’m able to move directly in and make that payment super crazy cool. So let’s do another one here on what are our other services. We have options for twenty dollars a day, so you can buy seven days and then you can get some discount.
So again that’s the same way you do it. You come over here and twenty dollars would be the option for you know the twenty dollar payment. You come in here, highlight that. Link it, and again, if you want to open it up in a separate tab you can do that and then the same thing here. Buy seven days for 120 dollars. I don’t even have to really go over there to that. I can just type it in here and say 120 and again make the option open in a separate tab and 5.40. You get it. it’s that super simple to kind of customize how PayPal. Adjust the payments here and of course, you can set it to your currency and we can do the 3000 as well. Just to finish up the page here, really quickly, and I will show you that they all work correctly from 23 and we’re gonna have it open up in a separate link. Update and now on the front side of our website we have, if I click refresh here; we have our BUY NOW and then we’ve got all of our different links here clicking over to our services where we can get our three thousand dollar payment. How easy is that? Alright, if you need a little bit more advanced options, maybe you want some sort of a drop down or something, you can make as many of these links as you want.
We also have another video that I made a couple of months back now on setting up payments using gravity forms, so if you watch our YouTube channel you know that I’m a huge fan of Gravity Forms which is a premium plugin for WordPress and you can set up payments and kind of use that as a shopping cart environment as well. I hope this has helped you. If you have questions about anything about this or if you have ideas and options that you use for a simple payment gateway on your WordPress website, will you please put them in the disk box below and in the thread and we will just chat about it. You can tweet to me you can come over to Webtegrity. com and set up a phone call with me/ I’d love to help you out on your WordPress website. Have a great one y’all, bye-bye.
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