With WordPress order forms, you don’t need to get your hands dirty with any source code whatsoever, although the mechanism behind your order form is complex and highly secure. Read below the three easy steps required to post your order form on WordPress.

1. Create your order form. To build your order form, you can start from the 123ContactForm order form template. Add and edit form fields, list the products/services that you offer and customize an order form theme. Keep in mind that, when listing your products, you can use radio buttons with images, to make the offer more attractive. Also, don’t forget to add your company logo to the order form theme.

2. Set up the payment integration. The most popular choice is the order form with PayPal payment integration, but you can also create Google Checkout order forms or Authorize.net order forms. To set up the payment integration for your form, visit your Settings → Payments section. Select the payment processor(s) that you want to use, assign prices to fields, create advanced calculation formulas, if you need to, and customize payment notifications. Tick Enable payments for this form when you’re done to activate the payment integration for your order form.

3. Post your PayPal order form on WordPress. To post your order form on WordPress, you need to install the 123ContactForm plug-in for WordPress: download it, unzip it and move it to your wordpress/wp-content/plugins directory; then, in your WordPress dashboard, click on the Plugins tab and press Activate for the plugin named 123ContactForm for WordPress. The contact form plugin for WordPress is now installed and you can choose one of two different ways to publish your PayPal order form on WordPress.

The first way to post your order form on WordPress is to visit your 123ContactForm Get Code & Publish section, choose the Wordpress publishing option, copy the code provided and paste it in your post. The other way of publishing your WordPress order form is by using an API Key generated by 123ContactForm. After you paste this key in the WordPress interface (in the 123ContactForm plugin customization lightbox), all the forms that you have in your 123ContactForm account will be listed in the plugin lightbox and you simply need to choose the one that you want to post. Learn more about how to post your order form on WordPress.

Payment integration can be enabled in your Settings -> Payments section. You’ve got there three sections: Merchant Setup, Assign Prices and Notifications. Start with the first one and tick Accept payments via PayPal to enable PayPal integration. Below, there are other payment processors that you may integrate with your web forms – Google Checkout and Authorize.net. For now we’ll stick to PayPal payments.

When you tick the Paypal integration option, you’ll see two new fields – Email and Language. Provide your PayPal seller email address and choose your preferred language. Right below the available payment processors, there is a dropdown list where you can set the currency your web form will accept. Further, you are asked to specify whether payment is made one time only or whether it is recurrent. Press Save.

Moving on to the Assign Prices section, here you can specify the amount that will be charged for orders. If you’re selling one product or service at an invariable price, then you only need to specify its price in the Fixed amount box. But you can also assign different prices to fields and charge buyers based on their chosen products. Select the form field that lists products – most likely, it will be a dropdown list, a radio buttons field or a checkbox field – and press Add. Then type item prices in the boxes that appear below. You can also set up advanced calculations for your payment integrated form. Taxes and special discounts can be applied this way. We’ll deal with advanced calculations in a future post.

The third section for setting up payment integration – Notifications – allows you to create and customize a payment confirmation message. By ticking the first box – Send notification after payment is completed – you establish whether buyers will receive a confirmation notification for their order. You can also decide when the notification is delivered: as soon as the form is submitted or only after the payment is completed.

Press the Customize message button to create a payment confirmation message. A customization lightbox will show up, in which you are requested to type the subject and the body of the payment confirmation email that will be sent to buyers. Press Save when you’re done.

Finally, return to the main Payments section and tick Enable payments for this form at section top. Your web form with PayPal integration is now ready to receive payments!

Learn more about PayPal payments following our short tutorial on PayPal payment integration.

Recently, somebody told us about a major problem of selling things using Paypal: it does not allow to automatically send an email to the customer. This is very unpleasant, especially for those who sell digital content (ebooks, software), as they have to manually send the download links, instead of having it automatically solved.

So, we decided to search for a solution, and we found it. Starting today, our customers that use Paypal order forms are able to enter the details (subject & body) of an email that will be automatically sent to the buyers. Basically it’s a Paypal payment notification email bases on Paypal’s IPN platform. Just go to the Payment Integration settings of your form, enter email’s subject & body, and enable this new feature.

Here is a preview of this feature:

New users:

Follow the guide for Paypal Integration to start using 123ContactForm services including the Paypal payment notification email.