Step by step guide on PayPal integration

1. Create your payment form in the editor.

You can use choice fields (single/multiple choice and dropdown lists) to display the products on sale. If you wish to let submitters specify the amount they want to pay, use a Price field or a Number field (numeric validation is necessary and it’s predefined for these two fields). With 123FormBuilder you can also create subscription forms for newsletters and other services.

2. In Form Settings go to Payments section. Under Payment Processors, select PayPal from the Payment gateway dropdown list and hit the Add payment gateway button. Next, you have to enter your PayPal email address and choose your preferred language from the dropdown list. Before saving your settings, enable the payment gateway on the top right corner of the box.

If you want to enable recurrent payment on your PayPal payment form, tick the option Use recurrent payment. If you want to create a donation form, tick the second checkbox – payment represents a donation. Furthermore, the payment summary from your form is sent to PayPal’s order summary page. If you want to remove it from the page, simply uncheck the Detailed invoice box from the PayPal gateway box in Payments. The feature is not available if you use recurrent payment on the form.

Donation forms cannot be set as recurrent, therefore the two options are incompatible and cannot be used together.

3. Set the payment details – choose currency, assign prices and perform calculations taking into account taxes or discounts, if applied. You can opt for notifications to be sent to the submitter once the transaction is completed.

4. Don’t forget to tick Enable payments for this form.

Once form users select their preferred products and/or services from the PayPal payment form and submit it, they are redirected to PayPal to perform the transaction. After that, they receive the confirmation message you have created.

Do not assign negative values to your fields. Negative values aren’t recognized by PayPal.