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How to Build Paypal Forms

The spirit behind FormSmarts Payment Integration is to make it very easy to request a payment as part of a form submission. In particular, the feature seeks to address the needs of:

• Event registration forms
• Booking forms
• Service request forms
• Order forms

And other common cases where a form submission must be followed by a payment.

FormSmarts Payment Integration only support Paypal at this time. We’ve planned to extend to other payment platforms in the coming months, based on user feedback.

Requesting a Payment on Your Forms

Requesting a payment on a form is easy:

1. Set the Return URL of the form to http://www.paypal.com
2. Add radio buttons or a drop-down list, and enter the description and price of products formatted as My Product Description ($30 USD), as shown on the screenshot below.

That’s all you need to do. We’ll pick up the products and quantities that were selected, and we’ll redirect the user to a pre-filled page on Paypal for payment. Feel free to try out these demos: registration form, booking form, order form, and contact FormSmarts Sales if you have any questions or need help integrating a paypal payment into your forms.

Billing Multiple Items on One Form

You can as easily charge for several items within a single form submission by adding other drop-down lists or radio buttons formatted as just described.

Adding a Product Quantity Box

If you’re building an order form, you will need to allow the user to enter the quantity or number of products they want to buy.

This can be done as follows:

1. Position the quantity field immediately after the one listing products for sale
2. Set the field type to Positive Integer.

Handling International Payments

To request a payment in a currency other than US dollars, simply change the currency code in the item’s description. For example, use (€60 EUR) to receive a payment in Euros, and (£60 GBP) for a payment in Sterlings.

The link inviting the user to proceed to payment is displayed in his preferred language, in any of the supported languages.

Reconciling Form Results & Payment

The name and email address submitted as part of form data may not always match those in the Paypal account that was used to send the payment. You will then need to reconcile each form submission with the corresponding payment using the FormSmarts reference number.

The FormSmarts reference number is the 25-character ID that is given to users on the confirmation page, and is shown in the subject of the email notification we send you. The same reference number will appear in the payment details in your Paypal account (Transaction Details screen, under the Custom heading).

How Payment Integration Works

In the current implementation, your Paypal email address must be the same as your FormSmarts login. You can change your FormSmarts login if needed.

To avoid the user having to type the same information twice if paying by credit card, we will attempt to pass on his first name, last name, email and country to Paypal. If you intend to request this information on your form, make sure you name the first name and last name fields exactly like this.

The web form and Paypal integration feature is only available to FormSmarts Pro customers. Lean more about FormSmarts Pro.

Redirecting Users to Your Site After Payment

To redirect users to you website after they have completed payment, log in to your Paypal account, and set the Return URL under Profile > Website Payment Preferences.

Get a FormSmarts Pro Account Free!

If you sign up for Paypal with a premium or business account (it’s free) with our referral link, we’ll refund your FormSmarts Pro subscription as soon as we get an equivalent referral fee from Paypal! See Paypal conditions here.

We welcome your feedback about payment integration.

Posted by FormSmarts on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm in form builder.
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