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:
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.
The Coburn Place is an Indianpolis-based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing a safe place for women and children who are victims of abuse. We heard about the Coburn Place through a friend of FormSpring and his involvement in Giving Sum. He thought Coburn Place could use our services to he;p manage some of their online donations and event registrations. We teamed up with the Coburn Place and helped them get started with their largest fundraising event – Blue Breakfast. Below is how they used FormSpring and how they anticipate using it in the future for online fundraising and more!
If you’re using your a FormSpring form to accept sensitive data, such as credit cards or social security numbers, you must enable all of our security features in order to protect your data. These security features are not enabled by default and are only available on paid plans at the Professional level or higher. The security features available to you are SSL, PGP and data encryption.
Like Authorize.Net, First Data is a payment gateway service provider, allowing merchants to accept credit cards and electronic checks through their web sites. It’s also now one of the payment integration methods available here at FormSpring.
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.
You’ve been asking us for more payment integration methods since the day we first introduced PayPal. Those requests did not fall on deaf ears, as we’ve been working behind the scenes to give you multiple payment options. With that said, we are proud to introduce Authorize.Net as one of our latest payment integrations.
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, FormSpring has you covered.
