Ready to add a paid plan?
There are four things to take care of:
- Connecting to the Stripe payment gateway
- Connecting your site to the gateway
- Setting up the “paid” level of your plan
- Test the payment process in sandbox mode
Setting up Stripe
On PeakZebra, your relationship to the payment processor is direct. You’ll need to establish a Stripe account, which you can do at Stripe.com (or, if you already have an account, you can of course just use that). Stripe makes the signup process straightforward, but if you have issues with account creation, you’ll want to deal directly with their support team.
To connect the gateway, you’ll need to go the payments page for the Paid Memberships Pro plugin here on your site. You provide your credentials and the connection is made. Then just use the “back” button in your browser to return to this page.
Finally, you need to add a “level” to Paid Membership Pro (you already have a “Free” level). Note that PMPro uses terminology based on “memberships.” If you mentally substitute the word “subscriptions,” they are functionally the same thing. Once you’ve done that and saved it, you’re done and there’s no need to return here.
But what you definitely should do is return to Stripe.com and, from your dashboard, use the toggle to temporarily switch your account to test (sandbox) mode. Run through the creation of a new subscription at the paid level to make sure all is in order. Then switch back to live mode to be ready for business.