Gravity Flow – Stripe Extension

The Gravity Flow Stripe Extension bridges the gap between your automated business workflows and secure payment processing. Designed specifically for users of Gravity Forms and Gravity Flow, this extension allows you to trigger Stripe payments automatically as part of a multi-step workflow. Whether you are managing complex onboarding processes, client service agreements, or recurring subscription management, this integration ensures that payments are collected exactly when they are needed—not just at the moment of form submission—streamlining your operations and reducing manual administrative tasks.

Key Features

• Deferred Payment Processing: Trigger Stripe payments at any stage of your Gravity Flow workflow. You no longer need to force users to pay immediately upon form submission; wait for approval, verification, or specific workflow milestones before capturing funds.
• Seamless Gravity Flow Integration: Fully compatible with the Gravity Flow workflow engine, allowing you to incorporate payment steps into complex sequences involving approvals, notifications, and data routing.
• Support for Recurring Subscriptions: Easily manage subscription-based business models by initiating or updating Stripe subscriptions within your automated workflows.
• Dynamic Payment Amounts: Calculate payment totals dynamically based on previous workflow steps, user selections, or data entered by staff members during the approval process.
• Secure Tokenization: Leverage Stripe‚Äôs industry-leading security infrastructure to ensure that sensitive payment data is handled safely, maintaining PCI compliance without storing card details on your own server.
• Comprehensive Workflow Audit Trails: Every payment event triggered by the extension is logged within the Gravity Flow entry details, providing a clear history of when a payment was requested, processed, or failed.

Use Cases and Who It’s For

This extension is an essential tool for business owners, project managers, and developers who use Gravity Forms to run critical business processes. It is ideal for organizations that require a human-in-the-loop approach to transactions.

For example, a service-based agency can use this to collect a deposit only after a project manager has reviewed and approved a client’s initial request. Similarly, educational institutions or membership organizations can use it to trigger payment requests only after an applicant has successfully passed an initial screening or background check. If your business model involves approval-based workflows, custom quotes, or multi-stage onboarding where payment is a conditional step, this extension removes the friction of manual invoicing and follow-up.

Setup and How It Works

1. Install and Activate: Ensure you have Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow, and the Gravity Flow Stripe Extension installed and active on your WordPress site.
2. Connect Stripe: Navigate to your Gravity Flow settings to securely connect your Stripe account using your API keys.
3. Configure the Workflow: In your Gravity Flow workflow settings, add a new step and select the Stripe payment type.
4. Define Payment Logic: Configure the step to determine the payment amount, whether it is a one-time charge or a subscription, and which user or field should trigger the transaction.
5. Automate: Once the workflow reaches this step, the extension will automatically communicate with Stripe to process the payment, update the entry status, and allow the workflow to proceed to the next stage based on the payment outcome.

Similar Plugins

While various payment add-ons exist for Gravity Forms, the Gravity Flow Stripe Extension is unique in its ability to tie payment processing directly into the Gravity Flow automation engine. Other plugins, such as the standard Gravity Forms Stripe Add-On, are designed primarily for immediate payment upon form submission and do not natively support the multi-step, conditional workflow logic required for complex business processes.