How do you (as a non-developer) accept payments on your website?
And as a follow-up, is there anything about it you wish were better?
I remember when I started a WordPress website a few years ago having some frustration about not finding the "right" simple payments option for my needs, and was thinking about building a product to solve that issue if it still exists.
Hi Sam, 👋🏼
I do not know what you are referring to but there multiple options.
If your product is not on some marketplace with a build-in payment system, you could still use BuyMeACoffee or have a Stripe account where you share a link to the checkout page (configuring the checkout page to your needs on stripe without coding).
Maybe you can give some more details? Or does that answer your question?
Ferhat
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At the time, Stripe wasn't really as non-dev friendly as it is now. I see they've made strides but I still think it could be even easier than it currently is. I also wanted a form that I could just put on my website without having to redirect users (same issue with buymeacoffee).
I'll have to look into what changes/improvements stripe has made since then to see if they offer what I was looking for now. Thanks for the suggestions!
I am a developer and could have built a full solution with ease, but I focused on customer benefits first.
For a year or so my SaaS had a billing system of:
No code involved, manual but it worked.
You can use Gumroad.com or buymeacoffee.com
You can pre-fill payment form in Gumroad.com.
Good to know, thanks. I'll see if they offer what I was looking for at the time.
As a developer I used various services, started with buymeacoffee, moved to ko-fi tried flurly. There is gumroad which is unavailable here. Even stripe now offers no-code solutions like checkout. Most of them handles recurring payments as well. And as a follow up nope, they did what they needed to be done. One thing that I'd want would be to do this white-labeled. I mean it would be nice if customers do the payment on-site without any out going links or redirections. It would be a nice to have feature not a must.
Lastly that "right" might be your killer feature or kill your 1 year. :)