How To Collect Paypal Payments On Your WordPress Site

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Let me guess

You offer services or maybe you sell products on your WordPress site

You want to receive PayPal payments 

And you want an easy but professional way to go about it

I have a solution for you

You can easily collect your PayPal payments in WordPress using WPForms 

WPForms is a contact forms plugin that is used and trusted by millions of WordPress users

And I’m going to show you how you can use it to collect your payments in 5 easy steps 

Step 1: Install And Activate WPForms

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Before we get to the nitty-gritty of collecting PayPal payments in WordPress 

You need to install WPForms and activate it, follow this guide and learn how to install and activate a plugin in WordPress 

You will need WPForms pro for you to be able to collect PayPal payments on your site 

Get WPForms pro

Step 2: Install The PayPal Addon

Now that you have installed and activated WPForms >> go to your WordPress dashboard and select WPForms 

Click Addons and select the PayPal Addon on the Addons page then click install addon

And take the following step once the PayPal addon is activated:  

Step 3: Create A Form

WPForms has built-in form templates that you can use on your site for any purpose 

You can also create your own form from scratch using the drag and drop form builder 

But in this tutorial, we are going to use a Billing/order form template 

PayPal needs one field for it to work properly which is an items field 

It could be a Single item, Checkbox items, Dropdown items or Multiple items field, all up to you 

The template comes with other fields that you’d want in a payment form so it’s all up to you to keep all or use less fields

That said, make sure that you don’t add a credit card field because all sensitive details will be filled on PayPal’s site after the form is submitted 

Step 4: Add PayPal Payments To Your Forms

Now that your form is created let’s connect it with PayPal 

Go to Payments >> PayPal Standard and check the box labelled Enable PayPal  Standard payments 

You’ll need to fill out the following PayPal settings:

• PayPal Email Address: The email address used on the PayPal account where payments will be sent
• Mode: Production or Test/Sandbox 
• Payment Type: The URL that your customers will be redirected to after completing a payment
• Shipping: ask for the address during PayPal’s checkout process

 
There are two checkbox options at the bottom of these settings:

• Don’t ask buyer to include a note with payment, check this box if you don’t want customers to add a note in PayPal checkout
• Enable conditional logic, this is useful if you want to let your customers choose between paying with Stripe or PayPal in your form

When you’re done click save to store your payment settings 

Step 5: Set Up Conditional Logic  For Payments 

Note: This step is optional 

You can also include the option to set up conditional logic which allows you to create smart forms, automatically changing behaviour or content in the form based on a customer’s selection 

You can use conditional logic with PayPal payments to:

• Make payment option
• Let your customers choose to pay with Stripe or PayPal 

Now we want to set up conditional logic for PayPal payments 

Open the form builder and go to Payments >> PayPal Standard and check the box labelled Enable conditional logic

Once you check the box you will see some additional options

The options will include:

• Select Field: Choose the field where you’d like to apply this rule
• Process: Determine what should happen if the conditions are met 
• Is: Choose the type of comparison you’d like to use
• Select Choice: Determine what value you’d like the field to contain in order for this to apply 

This allows you to set your rule(s) about when your customer should be sent to PayPal to complete the payment process 

That’s it you can now collect PayPal payments in WordPress 

Congrats!

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