CP Contact Form with PayPal vs Accept Stripe Payments

CP Contact Form with PayPal lets you add customizable contact forms, payment forms, and donation forms to your WordPress website, with built-in PayPal integration (Standard, Express, and PayPal Credit where available). Ideal for websites that need a quick and easy way to accept payments through PayPal — for products, services, donations, event registrations, consultations, and more. 🎉 New: Includes a visual form builder to easily customize your forms. When users submit the form, their data is saved in your WordPress database and they’re redirected to PayPal for secure payment. After completing the transaction, both the admin and user receive confirmation emails. You can view and manage form submissions in the dashboard, marked as “Paid” or “Not Paid”. Perfect for: – Contact forms with payments – Donation forms – Booking and order forms – Event registration with payment – Paid consultations Features ✅ PayPal Payment Integration – Supports PayPal Standard and PayPal Express / PayPal Credit. – Configure prices and payment settings per form. 🧰 Flexible Form Builder – Visual drag-and-drop form editor. – Add, edit, delete fields without coding. 📧 Email Notifications – Send confirmation emails to users. – Customize admin email notifications. 📊 Form Management – Track and view submitted entries in the dashboard. – Filter by Paid or Not Paid status. – Export data to CSV / Excel. 🔐 Secure and Customizable – Add GDPR consent checkbox. – Optional captcha for spam protection. – Request shipping address through PayPal if needed. 🔁 Recurring Payments & Refunds – Supports recurring billing. – Issue refunds directly from the plugin. 🎨 Styling and Compatibility – Works with Elementor, Gutenberg, and standard WordPress editors. – Supports PayPal donation layout. – Integrates easily into posts and pages via shortcode. 🌍 Multilingual & International Ready – UTF-8 and multilingual-ready. – Translation-ready with included .po/.mo files. – Supports language and currency options. Use Cases You can use CP Contact Form with PayPal for: Contact forms that require a payment Simple PayPal donation buttons with custom fields Paid event registrations or appointment bookings Online product ordering with form input Selling digital files or services Subscription-based services Custom quote and invoice requests Premium Features Unlock additional features with the commercial version: Advanced visual form builder with conditional logic Dynamic pricing, discount codes, optional PayPal usage Integration with other gateways: Stripe, PayPal Pro, Authorize.net, Skrill, Mollie, iDEAL, Sage Pay, Redsys, and more Add-ons for Mailchimp, reCAPTCHA, SMS notifications, signature fields, and more 🔗 Get the Premium Version 💡 All payment methods are SCA-ready and compliant with PSD2 EU regulations. Language Support The plugin supports all character sets and is fully translation-ready. Multiple languages are already included. PO/MO files are located in the /languages/ directory. If you need to adjust the database character set, use the options in the Troubleshooting area.Requesting address at PayPal: If you are selling tangible items and you need to request the customer address at PayPal you can enable that option into the settings field “Request address at PayPal” available separately for each contact form. Taxes at PayPal: You can indicate the taxes to charge at PayPal over the “request cost” as a percent into the settings field “Taxes (percent)”. Each contact form can have a different taxes setting. Edit submit button label: You can easily edit the submit button label into each contact form settings. The class=”cp_subbtn” can be used to modify the button styles. The styles can be applied into any of the CSS files of your theme or into the CSS file “cp-contact-form-with-paypal\css\stylepublic.css”. For further modifications the submit button is located at the end of the file “cp_contactformpp_public_int.inc.php”. Use a specific field from the form for the payment amount: If a field is selected in this settings field, any price in the selected field will be added to the above request cost. Use this field for example for having an open donation amount. This field is more useful in the pro version since it supports adding more fields to the contact form. Button to change status to paid: The messages list contains a button to change the status of the “Not paid” contact form messages to “Paid”. This is mainly for administrative purposes. Export data to CSV/Excel: The messages list contains an option to export the contact messages received from the contact form to a CSV/Excel file. This way you can export the email address and other data from the contact messages to other applications or manage the data in Excel. The filters in the message list apply also to the exported CSV/Excel file. Enabling donation layout: The plugin supports enabling the PayPal donation layout, this way a payment page improved for donations is displayed to the donors.

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.