Take Payments Easily with Jetpack’s Simple Payment Button

Updated on August 31, 2017 - Nicole Kohler

No matter what you use your Jetpack-powered site for, you want it to be successful — and profitable. But making money from your site has traditionally been a challenge if you don’t have the time to set up an online store.

Well, now it’s easier to take payments for your products, services, or charity. Starting today, Jetpack Premium and Professional customers can add a Simple Payment Button to any post or page, and start taking payments with PayPal in just a few clicks.

Add a Simple Payment Button to any post or page in a few quick steps.

To add a Simple Payment Button to your site, you’ll first need to add or edit a post or page in the WordPress.com Visual Editor. Click the drop-down arrow on the left, then choose Add Payment Button.

On the new screen that appears, you’ll be asked to add details for what you’re selling, an image (if you choose to include one), price and preferred currency, and finally the email address for your PayPal account (where the money will be sent).

You can add as much or as little information as you like here — it all depends on what you’re selling.

You can also allow customers to purchase more than one of this product — for example, if you’re selling handmade goods or food. Just toggle on Allow people to buy more than one item at a time to make it happen.

When you’re finished, click Insert and the button will appear on your post or page. Don’t forget to save your changes!

Customers can use Simple Payment Buttons with a credit card, debit card, or their PayPal balance. They don’t have to have PayPal to pay you — however, you will need an account to have your payments deposited into your bank account. Sign up here to get started.

You can use Simple Payment Buttons for anything you like: to sell physical products, accept donations for a charity, or take payments for appointments online. You can also add multiple buttons to a single post or page, or use the same button in multiple locations.

To learn more about adding, customizing, or accepting payments with Simple Payment Buttons, take a look at this support article.

We look forward to seeing how you use these payment buttons to make your site more profitable. Happy selling!

Simple Payment Buttons are available to Jetpack Premium and Professional plan customers. Upgrade now to start taking payments in just a few clicks.

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  1. The Success Architect® says:
    September 1, 2017 at 3:21 am

    Have you considered Stripe?

    Liked by 5 people

  2. liliatconsulta says:
    September 5, 2017 at 11:16 pm

    Does the payee need to also use Paypal

    Liked by 1 person

  3. Norbert says:
    September 9, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Is something similar planned for credit card payments?

    Liked by 1 person

  4. Sunny Kumar (TheGuideX) says:
    September 13, 2017 at 4:53 am

    What payment methods are available?

    Liked by 2 people

  5. Jere says:
    October 20, 2017 at 10:08 am

    Just chatted with Paypal. Their system would not report individual purchase/donations (name, address, date, amount, specific purpose/product). This would have to be provided by the web site form. Does Jetpack provide this capability? Is it easily auditable? I can imagine someone slipping in a bit of code to skim .1% of every transaction. Thanks!

    Liked by 2 people

  6. Nicole says:
    October 20, 2017 at 10:28 am

    How much per transaction does jetpack take from purchase price and b. How much per donation does jetpack charge?

    Liked by 1 person

  7. Tareq Salahuddin says:
    October 20, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    Can I use this payment service in wordpress.com blog? I have a photography blog https://tareqsalahuddin.wordpress.com which I was not updating for a couple of years. If this is possible, I’d rethink about selling photos on my blog.

    Liked by 1 person

  8. Dominican Products Shop says:
    October 20, 2017 at 3:09 pm

    hi i own a store, i dont receipt direct payments because i dont have an ssl does jetpack provides it? i only take payments through paypal redirecting customer to paypal website with api.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      Hi there!

      > i dont receipt direct payments because i dont have an ssl does jetpack provides it?

      Jetpack itself does not provide an SSL certificate for your site. However, our payments button opens a popup that takes the payment, and that *is* done over SSL, as you can see in this screenshot:

      So it should be OK for you to use. 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  9. maxdwh says:
    October 20, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    Most people I know are very anti-PayPal—Stripe is by far the preferred method for us!

    Excellent step in the right direction though. Awesome to see the democratisation of payments online.

    Liked by 1 person

  10. Jordi says:
    October 20, 2017 at 4:49 pm

    Hi,
    Do you work with S2MEMBER to sign up for subscriptions ?

    Liked by 1 person

  11. Jere says:
    October 20, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    For a church, how would we handle special donations, for example for a building campaign or youth projects? Separate paypal accounts?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Nicole Kohler says:
      October 20, 2017 at 9:44 pm

      Howdy Jere, if you wanted to use a separate PayPal account to receive donations for different organizations, purposes, etc. you could do so.

      You’re able to designate the email that receives the payments (or donations) when you add a simple payment button to your post or page, so you could use a different email/account during that step to make them go to different places and keep them separated.

      Does this help? If you’re thinking of something else, please give our support team a shout and we’ll see if we can come up with a good solution for you!

      Liked by 1 person

  12. Mohsin Alam says:
    October 20, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    Can it be alternative or better solution of existing payment gateway?

    Liked by 1 person

  13. Pothi Kalimuthu says:
    October 20, 2017 at 6:25 pm

    Interesting. Have you planned incorporating Paypal subscriptions?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Nicole Kohler says:
      October 20, 2017 at 9:46 pm

      Hi Pothi! Right now the Simple Payment Button only supports one-time, non-recurring payments. For subscription payments, you could use WooCommerce and the PayPal Payments Standard option (or something similar).

      Liked by 1 person

  14. Timix A Thomas says:
    October 20, 2017 at 6:45 pm

    Do you have plans to add more payment options?

    Liked by 2 people

  15. Ivan says:
    October 20, 2017 at 6:59 pm

    Can you sell digital goods? ,i.e. downloadable files

    Liked by 1 person

  16. johannawise says:
    October 20, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    Is this set up to take recurring payments? I’m set up with PayPal, but not for recurring payments, as they charge extra for this feature.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 9:59 pm

      Johanna,

      > Is this set up to take recurring payments?

      Not at the moment, no. Each payment is a standalone transaction. Recurring payments is a great idea though, and I’ll definitely pass this on to our developers. 🙂

      Thanks!

      Liked by 1 person

  17. edgarswalker says:
    October 20, 2017 at 7:25 pm

    Will it be possible to take recurring payments, for example monthly subscriptions?

    Liked by 1 person

  18. Florian Reisinger says:
    October 20, 2017 at 7:41 pm

    Sorry to ask this, might be a stupid question.

    This is available via Jetpack Premium, is this the same as WordPress.com Premium?

    Liked by 1 person

  19. Anne R. Tan says:
    October 20, 2017 at 7:57 pm

    How do payment option handle VAT and other taxes for international sales?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 2:10 pm

      Anne,

      Jetpack itself doesn’t deal with VAT or other taxes. PayPal might, but that’s something you’d need to ask their support people about I think.

      If you need a more powerful solution for selling products online that can handle VAT and so forth, check out WooCommerce:

      https://woocommerce.com/

      Thanks!

      Liked by 1 person

  20. DreamiFly says:
    October 20, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    good feature, but i can’t see it in post, is it upgraded to it will be available soon.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 8:42 pm

      Hi there!

      Keep in my that there are a few requirements to be able to add the payment button:

      – You need a Jetpack Premium or Professional plan.

      – You have to be running Jetpack version 5.2 or later.

      – You must be using the WordPress.com editor.

      If you start a post on your Jetpack site here:

      https://wordpress.com/post/

      Can you see it then? Let us know if not. 🙂

      Like

  21. nadirajamal says:
    October 20, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    I’m interested, but I’m not clear on what the advantages are over just adding a button via Paypal’s code (other than adding the photo, which isn’t hard to do manually). Am I missing something?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 9:56 pm

      We like to think it’s a bit simpler than having to mess with the PayPal button code, plus you also get a monthly report of all transactions via email. 🙂

      Like

  22. Lani says:
    October 20, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    I went to go add a paypal button, and my Viewer doesn’t have the drop down arrow. Just has “add media” and “add form”. I am a wordpress.org user so it should be there, should it not?

    Like

  23. gosimon says:
    October 20, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    Are you looking at adding the ability to sell digital content and adding to an email list?

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    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 1:55 pm

      Hi there!

      I don’t know if we’ll take it *that* far, since that territory is pretty well covered already by another Automattic product, WooCommerce:

      https://woocommerce.com/

      If you want a powerful platform for selling digital products and integrating with email lists, I’d start there. 🙂

      Thanks!

      Like

  24. Emil Jacobs says:
    October 20, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    I’m looking for a Patreon-like functionality. So, crowdfunding in a periodic (weekly, monthly, annually…) manner. Is that planned?

    So far, it just seems a very fancy PayPal button…

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 9:52 pm

      Emil,

      That’s not something we’re planning currently, but we’re certainly taking feedback on what our customers want next. 🙂

      Thanks for the great idea!

      Like

  25. David R says:
    October 20, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    Hi

    Seems like a great feature. But, to confirm, if I am either selling an item or asking for a donation, say, $100, the person making the payment will pay exactly $100 and I will then get also exactly $100 deposited into my Paypal account?

    If this is correct, it seems ‘too good to be true’. Hence the question.

    Two other comments/questions :

    First, I saw mention that not much information is being passed through – how will I know how much I am receiving from each person sending in a payment and what the payment will be for?

    Second, to lend my voice to others already expressed, while Paypal is great, there is sadly a very significant community of people who hate it and refuse to use it. A more neutral ‘white label’ type payment processor such as Stripe has a great deal of appeal so as to offer a solution to the Paypal-haters out there.

    David.

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 20, 2017 at 10:23 pm

      David,

      > if I am either selling an item or asking for a donation, say, $100, the person making the payment will pay exactly $100 and I will then get also exactly $100 deposited into my Paypal account?

      We do not charge any fees on these transactions. I’m not sure if PayPal themselves will charge you a fee or not, since I don’t really use their service myself. That would be a question for their support folks I imagine.

      > how will I know how much I am receiving from each person sending in a payment and what the payment will be for?

      For every purchase, PayPal will send you a confirmation email with the customer or donor’s information. You will also receive an email from Jetpack when a purchase is completed, as well as a monthly report for all your Simple Payment buttons.

      > A more neutral ‘white label’ type payment processor such as Stripe has a great deal of appeal

      Adding more payment processors is definitely something that we’re looking into, as I mentioned above. 🙂

      Thanks!

      Like

  26. dmrowell says:
    October 20, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    Hi, Adam

    All understood, thanks for the fast reply. It seems then that the usual Paypal fees will apply. Still a nice extra service you’re offering though.

    Like

  27. Tecnologia Geek says:
    October 20, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    Very helpful…

    Like

  28. Dameon says:
    October 20, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    I’m s little confused why Jetpack, a WordPress entity, has created a Payment option while WooCommerce, a WordPress entity, exists and works great.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 1:57 pm

      Dameon,

      WooCommerce does work great, we agree! We just think that by adding this simple payment button to Jetpack, we can make selling products extremely easy for those people who don’t need the full suite of WooCommerce features. 🙂

      Thanks!

      Like

  29. Andre says:
    October 21, 2017 at 4:23 am

    Thanks For This Amazing artice, but can we use this jetpack for higher business purpose?

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      Andre,

      I’m not sure what you mean by a “higher business purpose.” If you can explain a bit more, maybe we can help! 🙂

      Thanks!

      Like

  30. mykalvi says:
    October 21, 2017 at 4:27 am

    Thanks for bringing in awesome feature, we’ve been waiting for a long time.

    Do this Support Indian cards ? ( Since Paypal doesn’t work transacting within India )

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 2:00 pm

      Hi there!

      PayPal is our only payment processor at the moment, so if PayPal is not supported in India, I don’t know if this button will work for you right now. 😦

      Like

  31. Ville says:
    October 21, 2017 at 4:40 am

    Really good news. This is extremely good for people who sells digital products online. Hopefully this makes life as easier as I think 🙂

    Like

  32. Mark says:
    October 21, 2017 at 5:22 am

    Hi,
    Can one select different PayPal buttons or “Pay with PayPal” is the only one available?
    Thanks

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 2:02 pm

      Mark,

      I believe that button is the only style available right now.

      Like

      • Mark says:
        October 24, 2017 at 10:09 am

        If you have only one button style available, why to say ““Pay with PayPal”? I would use it for donations and to have “Pay with ..” is no good at all for me. Just a simple button that says “PayPal” would be much, much more useful.

        Like

      • Adam says:
        October 24, 2017 at 3:28 pm

        Mark,

        The payment button itself is loaded from PayPal in an iframe, so we don’t directly control what it says, PayPal does that.

        Like

  33. Tatiana Scavnicky says:
    October 21, 2017 at 7:38 am

    Does jetpack allow the customer to cancel subscriptions and monitor their own accounts like woocommerce?

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 2:03 pm

      Tatiana,

      The Simple Payment button doesn’t start a subscription at all. Each purchase is a single, standalone transaction.

      Thanks!

      Like

  34. tuttubukupon says:
    October 21, 2017 at 11:45 am

    Very good news. A question; I m living in Turkey and PayPal stopped giving service to Turkey.
    Should I have a PayPal account? Are there any other alternative system in order to get my payouts into my Turkish bank account?

    Liked by 1 person

    • Adam says:
      October 23, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      Hi there!

      PayPal is our only payment processor at the moment, so if PayPal is not supported in Turkey, I don’t know if this button will work for you right now. 😦

      We’re looking into adding other payment processors in the future though, so stay tuned!

      Like

  35. nanson says:
    October 23, 2017 at 10:19 am

    It’s a great start – I’d love to move fully into the wp ecosystem for taking payments – but it’s far too early to pay a premium (Premium Jetpack) for only half a service. Send me another email when you have stripe to go with paypal…

    Like

  36. snoopsmaus says:
    October 23, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    Will this button and function soon be available for WordPress.org-users as well or only for wordpress.com-users?
    I have a self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack as a plugin. Couldn’t find anything in your comments. Every time you just say wordpress.com-editor and paid membership. Got that. But any plans for self-hosted WordPress users?

    Like

  37. bestcurb says:
    October 23, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    Stripe is the WORST. Takes them a week or more to deposit funds in my account! Square is way better! Please add support for Square.

    Like

  38. petervanderkruijs says:
    October 24, 2017 at 2:50 pm

    Is iDeal, Sofort etc (via for exampe Mollie), or via Stripe in the planning?

    Like

  39. Daniel Parsons says:
    October 25, 2017 at 4:50 am

    I use Square. Any plans on adding Square ?

    Like

  40. Stan Burman says:
    October 29, 2017 at 3:07 am

    I sell digital products on my blog and website. Does the Jetpack payment system allow for fulfilling the orders as well such as sending an email with a download link or something similar?

    Like

    • Adam says:
      October 30, 2017 at 11:18 am

      Stan,

      > Does the Jetpack payment system allow for fulfilling the orders as well such as sending an email with a download link or something similar?

      Jetpack’s Simple Payments button is just that: simple. It doesn’t fulfill orders or send download links, at least right now. It just accepts payments, and that’s all.

      If you need a more fully-featured ecommerce plugin, I’d suggest WooCommerce:

      https://woocommerce.com/

      Thanks!

      Liked by 1 person

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