How to Integrate Stripe Into WordPress (Step by Step)

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How to integrate stripe into WordPress

Looking for a way to integrate Stripe into your WordPress website?

Accepting payments for your online business should be easy. For a WordPress website, the only thing you need is to find a Stripe plugin and install it on your site.

In this article, we’ll show you how to easily integrate the Stripe payment gateway using the WP Simple Pay plugin.

What Is WP Simple Pay?

WP-Simple-Pay

WP Simple Pay is the #1 Stripe payments plugin for WordPress. The plugin justifies the name and offers an easy to use interface for accepting payments.

It eliminates the need to install extra addons. A WordPress website and a Stripe account are all you need for accepting one-time or recurring payments.

Now, let’s get started with the WP Simple Pay plugin.

Configuring WP Simple Pay with Stripe

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the WP Simple Pay plugin on your website. You can follow this beginner guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Once you activated the plugin, a new setup wizard should appear.

WP Simple Pay setup wizard

Click on the Let’s Get Started button

If you’re using the premium version, you can activate the plugin by entering the license key.

wp simple pay license key

In the next step, you’ll be asked to connect with your Stripe account. Click on the Connect with Stripe button.

create stripe account

If you don’t have an active Stripe account, enter the email address, and on the next step, you’ll be able to create a new account.

After completing all the Stripe account steps, you’ll be redirected to the setup wizard.

Next, you’ll find the settings for managing various emails. You may choose the emails that you’d like to receive.

WP Simple Pay email setup

This brings us to the final step of the setup wizard.

wp simple pay last step

You’ve successfully set up the Stripe account, and now you can start creating your first payment form.

Creating a Stripe Payment Form

WP Simple Pay plugin allows users to complete the payment using a simple form. Looking at the options available, you can choose from:

  • an embedded form
  • an overlay form or
  • a simple Stripe checkout form

To create your first payment form, head over to WP Simple Pay » Add New.

Select the template and click on Use Template.

wp simple pay form template

There are three simple tabs provided to customize your payment form.

You can set the title, description, form type, and payment success message in the General tab.

wp simple pay general tab

The next step is the Payment tab.

You can set the payment mode, amount, and payment type. There is an optional label field for adding the name of the purchased item.

payment setup

Next, you can set the desired amount for your item.

After adding the amount, you can set it as a one-time amount or sell the item as a subscription-based model.

wp simple pay subscription model

The subscription type will provide the necessary fields like frequency of payment, free trial period, and invoice limit.

simple pay payment checkbox

Additionally, there are two checkboxes provided for users. These allow the users to make payments with the subscription model and select a minimum payable amount.

Now, you can move on to customizing the form fields.

By default, you’ll see 4 fields added:

  • Email address
  • Price selector
  • Credit card
  • Checkout button

You can select the field from the dropdown and click on Add Field to add a new field.

simple pay form fields

Once the field is added, click on the dropdown arrow to customize the newly added field.

customize fields in wp simple pay

Save this as a draft, so you can preview the payment form. Here is the preview of the form created:

simple pay form

If no changes are needed, you can publish the form and copy the shortcode available above the publish button.

Adding a Stripe Payment Form to Your Website

If you’re using the classic editor, simply paste the shortcode where you want to insert the form.

wp simple pay shortcode

In the case of block editor, search for Pay, and you should see the WP Simple Pay form block.

wp simple pay block

Click on the form, and you should see the form inserted on the page/post.

The last step is to test the payment from the form created.

Making a Payment

By now, you are ready to make a test payment.

Stripe provides testing credit card numbers to check if there are any errors while completing the payment.

payment form

Once you make a payment, Stripe will process the test payment, and you will see a payment confirmation page.

And you’ve successfully integrated Stripe payments into your website in just four steps with WP Simple Pay.

You can even set up custom amount payments and customize your subscription options. Don’t forget to explore the features for adding Google Pay and Apple Pay buttons with customized discount coupons and more.

We hope this article helped you learn how to integrate Stripe into your WordPress website with the WP Simple Pay plugin. You might also like our other articles that cover payment gateways in detail:

What are you waiting for? Get started with the WP Simple Pay plugin today!

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