tglanton Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) Hello, I'm working on a payment process that requires a large variation of possible prices, so many that it makes creating different products and variants too difficult to manage. Each customer receives a contract with a calculated price prior to coming to the page to make a payment. What we are looking for is the ability to allow the customer to enter the price directly as stated in the contract - similar to a donation block - then pass that information to the paypal integration for payment. We considered using the donation bock, but that has tax implication and forces, or so it seems, donation verbiage into the process which can cause confusion. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Edited November 27, 2019 by tglanton lina.sofia.design 1 Link to comment
Solution paul2009 Posted November 27, 2019 Solution Share Posted November 27, 2019 Squarespace isn’t a suitable platform for this requirement. You’ll need to embed a completely different payment method to be able to do this, whereas some other platforms allow variable payments. Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
Ryeguy9 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Interestingly enough, I spent about an hour today fiddling around with my site attempting to do exactly what you said. My business offers services not products to purchase. Therefore, I send invoices to my clients that could be any random amount depending on the work being done. I wanted a simple way for clients to go to my website to pay their invoices. I also tried turning the “donation” block into a “payment” block, but as you mentioned it wouldn't work without causing other issues and confusion. I ended up doing a live-chat with Squarespace asking if there was anything I could do to set up a simple “make a payment” process and was advised they don’t have a way to do that. I find it odd this isn’t possible to do as it seems something simple that many businesses would use and that would require very little for Squarespace to implement. They could tweek the “donation” wording around and a few other things and there you go! lina.sofia.design 1 Link to comment
TSTrip Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Does anyone know of a plugin or other workaround that will allow customers to enter their own payment amount? Link to comment
paul2009 Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) On 12/16/2019 at 5:25 PM, TSTrip said: Does anyone know of a plugin or other workaround that will allow customers to enter their own payment amount? @TSTrip It isn't possible for customers to enter their own amount into the Squarespace payment processing with Stripe or PayPal, with or without code/plugins/extensions. For that you'll need to accept payments using a third-party "payment" solution that is separate from Squarespace, or a third party "forms" product, like JotForm (other form providers are available). Did this help? Please give feedback by clicking an icon below ⬇️ Edited August 9, 2023 by paul2009 lina.sofia.design 1 Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
TSTrip Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Right... do you have a recommendation for a third party payment or form product that does and integrates well? Link to comment
paul2009 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 (edited) To be clear, none of them will "integrate" with Squarespace but they can be linked from the Squarespace site and often embedded on it. One example is JotForm. Edited August 9, 2023 by paul2009 CatherineJoMorgan 1 Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
malibudawson Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Has anyone tried allowing a customer to input their own custom amount by charging multiple quantity at $100 and multiple quantity at $1. This way if they wanted to pay $1535, then they would my 15 quantity of $100 service and 35 quantity of the $1 service. Bad way to work around but I am thinking about trying it as a way around it. Link to comment
swag84 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I thought of that, too, but then you'd get charged multiple fees per each transaction. The fact they do not support this/allow it is abysmal. Link to comment
StudioVulcan Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I've been doing something for a couple of years now that may help you guys, but yes, it doesn't seem as professional as being able to EITHER: Create a manual order for a client to use the link and go ahead and pay the order, or be able to order with a custom pricing that they type (that we've agreed to). We're really just asking for invoicing and how difficult is that? lol. Anyway, I added a product to my store that is $1. I then allow the quantity field to be edited and have them change THAT to the $ value we agreed upon. I've never seen additional fees doing this as it's a digital product. I then in CSS convert the text "quantity" to what ever text you want. I went with "Agreed upon price". It's the only way i've been able to get around it. Squarespace markets themselves for creatives and service sellers but come on... No manual order creation for easy buyer payments, or just straight up easy invoicing. Come on, this is 2021, we've been asking for it for years. It's not a hard thing to do when most of the bones are already in SS's system. lina.sofia.design 1 Link to comment
Tapestry Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 If you happen to use Square (I'm sure the others provide this as well), you can simply create a payment URL that allows customers to add any amount. You can also add a custom field for "Invoice Number" so that info is captured with the payment. Add that URL to a button on your website and you're good to go! I use this for my tax/accounting clients who provide services so they can offer online payments to their customers. lina.sofia.design 1 Link to comment
sarahshaw Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Tapestry: can you provide details about this URL method? Does the customer have to edit the fields in the URL? Do you need to create a new URL and button for each customer? Or are you able to have text fields where they enter the amount? Link to comment
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