The Gravity Perks PayPal One-time Fee plugin is the essential solution for WordPress site owners who need to charge a single, non-recurring fee alongside their Gravity Forms entries. Whether you are collecting registration deposits, application fees, or one-off administrative charges, this plugin seamlessly integrates with the Gravity Forms PayPal Standard Add-On to ensure you get paid without the complexity of recurring billing cycles. It empowers you to monetize your forms with precision, providing a frictionless checkout experience for your users while keeping your financial workflows simple and organized.
Key Features
- Effortless Integration: Designed to work hand-in-hand with the official Gravity Forms PayPal Standard Add-On, ensuring a stable and reliable connection between your forms and your payment gateway.
- One-Time Fee Logic: Automatically ensures that the PayPal transaction is processed as a single, one-time payment, preventing any accidental subscription or recurring billing setups.
- Seamless User Experience: Redirects users to PayPal immediately after form submission, allowing them to complete their payment quickly and securely without leaving your site’s ecosystem.
- Flexible Configuration: Easily enable or disable the one-time fee functionality on a per-form basis, giving you full control over which forms require payment and which do not.
- Reliable Data Sync: Ensures that the payment status is accurately reflected back in your WordPress entry data, so you always know which submissions have been paid.
- Lightweight Performance: Built with the signature Gravity Perks commitment to clean code, ensuring your site remains fast and your form processing remains efficient.
Use Cases / Who It’s For
This plugin is purpose-built for business owners, event organizers, and administrators who use Gravity Forms to manage transactions that do not require ongoing billing. If you are tired of managing complex subscription settings for simple, flat-rate payments, this tool is for you.
Event Organizers: Perfect for collecting non-refundable registration deposits or application fees for conferences, workshops, or training sessions where a single payment is all that is required to secure a spot.
Service Providers: Ideal for consultants or freelancers who need to charge an initial consultation fee or a setup fee before commencing work on a new project.
Educational Institutions: Great for schools or training centers that need to collect application fees, document processing fees, or material costs during the enrollment process.
Non-Profits and Clubs: Useful for organizations that need to collect one-time initiation fees for new members or specific event entry fees without the overhead of managing recurring donation or membership cycles.
Setup / How It Works
Getting started with Gravity Perks PayPal One-time Fee is designed to be intuitive for any WordPress user. The setup process focuses on simplicity, allowing you to get your payment forms live in minutes.
- Install and Activate: Ensure you have both Gravity Forms and the official Gravity Forms PayPal Standard Add-On installed and active on your site, then install the Gravity Perks PayPal One-time Fee plugin.
- Configure PayPal Feed: Navigate to your form settings and open the PayPal feed configuration.
- Enable the Perk: Within the feed settings, you will find a new option provided by the plugin to designate the transaction as a one-time fee. Simply toggle this setting to active.
- Test Your Form: Use the sandbox mode provided by PayPal to run a test transaction, ensuring that the form redirects correctly and that the payment is recorded as expected in your WordPress dashboard.
- Go Live: Once verified, switch your PayPal settings to live mode to begin accepting payments from your customers.