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.
Today’s post in our “Online Forms That Convert” series is from James Paden of Xemion. More information about James can be found at the bottom of this post.
When creating online order forms, whether for a large corporation, a small business or a non-profit, there are three questions your visitors will always ask:
We just released a new version of our form builder, and are happy to announce seven new field types that should greatly enhance the ease of collecting and validating data online.
Name, Address and Phone Number Fields
In our first post in our five day series for Online Forms that Convert, we want to revisit the basics of building good web forms. Throughout this series we will be talking about different types of forms like contact forms, surveys, and order forms, but today we will be talking about form building in general.
For the last two weeks, I’ve been blogging about creating some basic order forms with FormSpring. 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.
Last week, I wrote about how to create a single item order form, but what if you have more than one item and want to integrate your form with PayPal? Well, today I’m going to show you the most basic way to do this. I’m going to skip all of the steps from my last blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, you should head there now.
We get a lot of questions here at FormSpring 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 FormSpring 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 FormSpring 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.
Continuing our theme of new payment integration features, we are excited to preview our expanded PayPal functionality. With the new payment integrations we also expanded PayPal so now you have the ability to accept recurring subscriptions and donations using your FormSpring forms. These new features are useful for an unlimited number of possibilities, but some that spring to mind include taking donations for a non-profit, recurring subscriptions for a paid membership website, recurring dues for a club or organization, donations to support free software, etc. The possibilities are endless!
The long-awaited addition of Google Checkout to FormSpring 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.
