User Registration – Stripe

Overview #

User Registration’s Stripe add-on provides you with the option of enabling Stripe as a Payment Gateway on your registration forms. You can use this addon to provide the option for your visitors to pay directly with their Credit Card during the registration process without any hassle and with complete security and assurance.
You also have the option to set-up a one time charge or a recurring charge with this add-on. The process is described below in detail.

Note: You will need to install and activate the User Registration Payments(PayPal) add-on for Stripe add-on to work since it shares some part of functionality with the PayPal add-on.

Installation #

1. First, you need to purchase the User Registration Premium Plan containing Stripe Add-on.
2. After the successful purchase, you will get the plugin zip file under your WPEverest account page.
3. Now, you can download the plugin zip file from there.
4. Through your WordPress Dashboard, visit Plugins -> Add New -> Upload and then choose the downloaded zip file and then install and activate it.
5. Now you are ready to use this add-on for your site.

Global Stripe Settings #

After you have successfully activated the add-on, you will need to configure Stripe on your site. To configure the settings, click on User Registration > Settings > Payments and you will see the following window.

To proceed with the Stripe setup, you will be required to use your Stripe account’s API keys. To retrieve your API keys, follow these simple steps:

1. Open your Stripe Dashboard.
2. Visit the API keys page by clicking under API keys under the Developer tab on the dashboard sidebar. (Developer → API keys.)
3. Create and copy your API keys through this page. To learn more about the process involved in using API keys, you can refer to https://stripe.com/docs/keys link.

Next, you can change various settings for Stripe to make it fit better for your website.

Click on the Payments option on the top of the page to manage your Payment settings. Here, you can choose the currency for your payments and manage the settings for both the Paypal and the Stripe addon.

Under Stripe settings, you can insert the Publishable key and the Secret key to the appropriate fields. If you want to test the payment system before going live, use the Test keys that you may have received from your Stripe Dashboard on Stripe’s website.

If you want to test the payment system before going live, click on the Enable Test mode option. For the test mode, you can use the Test keys that you may have received for the Stripe API. You can learn more about the Test keys and receive Test credit cards by referring to this https://stripe.com/docs/testing link.

Stripe Integration to Registration Forms #

After you have configured Stripe Globally, you can enable it for your registration forms. To do so, first, you will need to add the payment field and the credit card field in your form. Drag the fields to your form to add them.

After adding the fields, click on the single item payment field and then set the amount for this field. The set amount will be charged to your users during the registration process.
You won’t need to set up anything for the credit card field. However, if you want, you can make it required by clicking on it and enabling the required option from the field options.

After this save the changes by clicking on the Update Form button on the top right of the form builder.

After the fields are added, one last thing that you need to do is enable Stripe for this registration form. To do so, Click on User Registration > Your Registration Form > Form Settings.

In the form settings, you can see Stripe Payments, click on it, and then click Enable Stripe Payment. Now you have enabled Stripe on your form. Click on update form and the changes will be saved.

That’s all. Now anyone registering through this form will need to pay during registration.

Where can an admin and a user view the Payment Details after Registration? #

Admin Side: Admin can view the Payment Status of the registered users in the WordPress Users Section. To do so, on the WordPress dashboard, Click on Users > (username). Scroll a bit and the information will be shown there. See the example in the screenshot:

User Side: Users can simply log in to their account on the site and then see their payment information of the Payment Details Tab. See the example in the screenshot below:

Stripe Subscription for Recurring Payments #

User registration Stripe also supports Recurring Payments. To charge users on a periodic basis, you can enable recurring payment on the registration form, and then the users will be charged periodically. To do so, in the form builder, click on Form Settings > Stripe Payment and then tick both options, Enable Stripe Payments, and Enable Stripe Recurring Payments.

In the Plan Name, you can give a name to your recurring plan. In the Recurring Period option, you can select the frequency when the next transaction will be done.

Again, Payment Info of any user can be seen by admin in the Users Section of WordPress by clicking on the particular username. And similarly, users can view their Payment Info after they log into the site and visit the Account Dashboard. The Payment Details Tab will contain the Payment info.

Cancelling Subscription option for Users:
In case of recurring payments, users can cancel their subscription anytime by clicking on the cancel link present in their Payment Details Tab.