Bitcoin Lightning Publisher for WordPress vs Accept Stripe Payments

Bitcoin Lightning Publisher is a Paywall, Donation and Value 4 Value plugin for WordPress to accept instant Bitcoin Lightning payments. It allows you to monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions and receive payments from your visitors directly to your preferred wallet – no need for expensive service providers. The plugin is the easiest and most flexible plugin to sell your digital content and to receive donations or Value 4 Value payments. Using the Bitcoin Lightning Network you can create the best visitor experience with seamless one-click payments. Benefits for you, the publisher: – Monetize any digital content with instant microtransactions – Create custom paywalls according to your needs – Best and fastest checkout payment experience – Superior paywall user experience – Save payment fees by using the inexpensive Bitcoin Lightning Network – no need to payment service providers – Receive payments directly in your preferred wallet (see “Lightning node connections”) Benefits for your vistors/customers: – Seamless one-click payments and quick access to the content – Global availability – let customers from around the world send you payments through the open Bitcoin payment network Use Case Examples: – Accept donations / Value 4 Value payments from your visitors – Monetize any digital content on your website: Articles, pages, file, videos, music, podcasts – Receive payments (boosts and boostagrams) from podcasting apps via the Podcasting 2.0 podcast:value RSS standard – Integrate payments with your website functionality – many more Features Paywall to sell content Sell any digital content (pay-per-post, pay-per-view, pay-per-download, etc.) with a highly configurable paywall WebLN enabled by default for easy on-click payments Add a paywall to posts and pages to easily charge for any published content Crowdfund option: make the content freely available after a certain amount is received Time-in option: keep the article freely available for a certain time and then enable the paywall after that Time-out option: make the article freely available after a certain time Configure the price in Satoshis, EUR, USD, or GBP (with real-time exchange rate) Configure the paywall with a shortcode ([lnpaywall]) Or configure the paywall with a Gutenberg Block Integrate with other tools and plugins like membership tools to control if the paywall should be enabled (see Paywall Hook section) Donation / Value 4 Value payments The plugin comes with various options to receive donations and Value 4 Value payments. Gutenberg block for a donation widget Donation widget for themes Enable the Lightning meta tag to allow users to send payments (Value 4 Value) Enable the podcast:value tag in your RSS feed to receive payments for your podcast Lightning Node connections Connect to your existing Bitcoin Lightning node or simply create a new Alby account to instantly receive Lightning payments. Alby LND LNDHub (e.g. BlueWallet) LNBits BTCPay Server Lightning Address REST-API for full advanced custom usage For more advanced, custom Lightning integrations you can use the REST API to create and verify invoices. The API also provides a LNURL-pay endpoint. See the REST-API section for details. Documentation Refer to the readme on GitHub for documentation and more details on how to use the plugin. Additional Info Contributing This plugin is free and open source. We welcome and appreciate new contributions. Visit the code repository and help us to improve the plugin. Donations Want to support the work on this plugin? Support the team behind it and send some sats to this Bitcoin Lightning Address [email protected]

The Stripe Payments plugin allows you to accept credit card payments via Stripe payment gateway on your WordPress site easily. Easily add Stripe ‘Buy Now’ buttons anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode or block. The plugin also supports accepting donations via Stripe. Enable seamless one-click payments via Stripe with a built-in “Remember Me” feature for faster repeat transactions. The plugin is designed with a fully responsive layout, ensuring compatibility across all devices and browsers. After completing a payment, customers are automatically redirected to a “Thank You/Checkout Result” page, where they can view detailed information about their transaction, including the purchased item. All transaction details are securely recorded in the plugin’s “Orders” menu. You can conveniently review and manage your payments and orders directly from your WordPress admin dashboard. For enhanced security, credit card details are never stored by the plugin or your site. All payments are processed directly by Stripe and securely stored in your Stripe account, utilizing their state-of-the-art security measures for credit card handling. Checkout Demonstration Video Setup and Usage Video Features Quick installation and setup. Easily take payment for a service from your site via Stripe. Sell files, digital goods or downloads using your Stripe merchant account. Sell music, video, ebook, PDF or any other digital media files. The ultimate plugin to create simple Stripe payment buttons. Create buy buttons for your products or services on the fly and embed it anywhere on your site using a user-friendly shortcode. Ability to add multiple “Buy Now” buttons to a post/page. Allow users to automatically download the digital file after the purchase is complete. View purchase orders from your WordPress admin dashboard. Accept donation on your WordPress site for a cause. Create a stripe payment button widget and add it to your sidebar. Ability to collect billing and shipping address of the customer. Ability to specify a logo or thumbnail image for the item that will get shown in the stripe payment window. Ability to customize the Stripe buy now button text from the shortcode. Ability to customize the Stripe buy now button appearance using custom CSS code. Ability to specify a custom description for the item/product (this info is captured with the order). Option to configure a notification email to be sent to the buyer and seller after the purchase. There is an option to allow the customer to enter a custom price amount for your product or service (customer pays what they want). Option to accept custom donation amount via Stripe payment gateway. Option to collect tax for your products (if applicable). Option to collect shipping for your tangible products. Option to configure region based shipping additions for physical products. Option to save the card data on Stripe. Ability to have custom thank you page on a per product basis. Ability to customize the message on the thank you page using tags. Ability to customize the price display with currency symbol. Ability to use a link URL to create custom payment button for your products. Option to send receipt email to your customers from Stripe for each transaction. Option to collect a custom input from your customers for products (useful if you are selling products that need special instructions from the customers). Stock control option. You can limit the number of quantity available for a product. Option to enable Alipay payments. So your customers can pay using their Alipay accounts. Option to enable Terms and Conditions that your customers have to accept before they can make a purchase. Ability to configure variable products. You can charge different amount for different options of the product. Ability to create “Authorize Only” products. Authorize and place a hold on the customer’s card, then capture the funds at a later time. Option to enable extended authorization for Stripe payments (if supported by your Stripe account). Option to display a security badge and message on the payment form. 3D Secure payments compatible. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) Compliant. Browse the plugin documentation to learn more about the features of this plugin. The setup is very easy. Once you have installed the plugin, all you need to do is enter your Stripe API credentials in the plugin settings and your website will be ready to accept credit card payments. You can run it in test mode by specifying test API keys in the plugin settings. Shortcode Parameters/Attributes This plugin offers a shortcode and a block that allows you to create a ‘Buy Now’ or ‘Pay’ button for accepting payments. First, create a product in the plugin’s admin dashboard. Then, use the provided shortcode or block to embed a buy button for that specific product. Check this tutorial for step by step instructions. Detailed Documentation For detailed documentation and instructions please check the WordPress Stripe Payments Plugin documentation page.