For the solo professional and small business owner, there are times you need a simple manner to request payment for services.
Many payment and accounting systems allow for invoicing.
But what about the times you would like to create a link in a PDF file, e-mail or a button on a website page.
There are many methods to accomplish this. Today, I’m going to talk about how to do this in Stripe.
What is Stripe?
Stripe a payment processing platform. Which allows businesses to accept and manage payments. Payment options include credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more.
High level steps to create a payment button
This is intended to be a very high level overview of the steps to create a payment button for a website. You will need a Stripe account, the API keys to connect to your website and a website.
Please test and ensure this is working correctly before going-live with it.
With in your Stripe account.
1. Select the MORE menu option
2. Under MORE select PAYMENT LINKS
3. Select + New
This will result in opening a window that allows you to enter a new product and payment amount.
1. Type the name of your product – make this very descriptive for your client to understand what they are purchasing. Stripe will prompt you to create a new product and set the price.
2. These are additional fields for taxes, collection customer information and promotion codes.
3. Once complete create the payment link
Once your product is created in Stripe, you will see a page similar to this one with a payment link.
1. This is the payment link. Copy the link and paste this value in the Button LINK field on your website.
On your website, when you create a button there are two items to look for.
1. The name of the button.
2. the LINK to the Stripe payment code that you copied in the Stripe application.
Note: These steps provide a general outline of how to create a payment button with Stripe. Depending on the specific needs of your business, additional steps may be necessary to fully integrate Stripe into your website.
Make sure you test and review your payment button.
You can see examples of this on my website on my pricing page. The payment buttons shown on the page follow these steps.
