Checkout for PayPal Integration with Contact Form 7

Checkout for PayPal WordPress plugin can be integrated with the Contact Form 7 plugin to accept PayPal payments after a form submission.

How Contact Form 7 Integration with PayPal Works

When a Contact Form 7 form is submitted, the PayPal button configured for this form will appear. Buyers will be able to click on this button to make payments. Note: The page cannot contain multiple forms if you are planning to integrate with a Checkout for PayPal payment button.

No payment button is shown when the form simply renders on the front end.

How to Enable Contact Form 7 Integration

Edit the page where you already have a contact form 7 type form or create a new one and insert a form into it.

Add a new shortcode block right after the form and insert these two shortcode into it.

[coforpaypal_cf7_button][checkout_for_paypal item_description="Contact Form 1 Product" amount="1.99"][/coforpaypal_cf7_button]

Here, “coforpaypal_cf7_button” is the enclosing shortcode required for this integration and the self-closing “checkout_for_paypal” shortcode is what renders the button. If you are not sure what parameters are supported with the “checkout_for_paypal” shortcode please check the PayPal Smart Payment Button plugin documentation.

The “coforpaypal_cf7_button” shortcode supports the following optional parameters.

message

A custom text message that can be shown right before the PayPal button.

[coforpaypal_cf7_button message="Please click on the button below to make the payment:"][checkout_for_paypal item_description="Contact Form 1 Product" amount="1.99"][/coforpaypal_cf7_button]

Checkout for PayPal Contact Form 7 Integration Settings

The settings page of the add-on allows you to choose the type of event that should enable the payment button display.