I love what I do: I found a neat trick to integrate Cforms with Paypal. It let’s you take info of any kind on your Wordpress website using a form you design, and then have the buyer forwarded to Paypal for payment completion once they submit the form (which is sent to you via email). The trick is to use the “redirect to” option in Cforms and a PayPal email link generator.
Minimum Requirements:
- Wordpress website
- A form built with Cforms which is already running on the page you want (I’m using version 11 in this example)
- A Paypal account of any kind
Limitations:
- You can’t take in subscription or recurring payments with this tutorial as far as I can tell, unless you fiddle some more with the PayPal Link Generator
Instructions:
Install the Cforms plug-in into your Wordpress installation – if you are stuck at this stage, this tutorial probably isn’t for you. How about hiring us to do the installation for you?
Build your website form in Cforms to your satisfaction
Integrate the form into your page or post using the Wordpress Page/Post editor
Visit the Paypal Link Generator at http://www.codetransit.com/generators/paypal_link_generator.php and create a link of your liking
Once you click “Generate Link” you will get two boxes. One is a form you can use on any page, and the other is a Link for Email – which is the one we want here. Grab that code and copy it.
Visit your Cforms configuration page for the form you’re using and go to Core Form Admin/ Email Options
In this area, look for Redirect options and past the Email Link into that option and also Enable this option
Now, if you did everything correctly, you should be forwarded to this link automatically after submitting a form!
