How to Connect Stripe or PayPal in Eventonomy

How to connect Stripe or PayPal in Eventonomy Pro, step by step. Open Eventonomy, then Settings, then Payments and find the card named Payment gateways. For Stripe, paste your Secret key and click Save changes, add the Webhook URL in your Stripe Dashboard and paste the Webhook signing secret, then tick Offer at checkout and save again. Test connection checks the saved key with Stripe without charging anything. A test key runs in test mode and takes no real money.

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In this tutorial you will connect Stripe or PayPal in Eventonomy, so your events can take payment for tickets. You need Eventonomy Pro, and a Stripe or a PayPal account. It takes about three minutes. There are five steps. Open Payment gateways. Add your Stripe key. Offer Stripe and test it. Set up PayPal. Then see what a buyer gets. Step one. Open Payment gateways. In your WordPress admin, open Eventonomy, then Settings, then Payments. Find the card named Payment gateways. Two of its rows are Stripe and PayPal. A row with no keys saved reads Not set up, and Not offered. Switch on each gateway you want. When you offer both Stripe and PayPal, buyers choose at checkout. Step two. Add your Stripe key. In the Stripe row, paste your secret key into the field named Secret key, and click Save changes. On this site a test key is already saved. A saved key is never shown again. The field stays empty, and the line under it says a key is saved. The Setup guide in the row says where to find the key in your Stripe Dashboard. A test key takes no real money. A live key takes real payments. Stripe also needs a webhook, so it can tell your site that a payment is complete. Add the Webhook URL in Stripe, then paste the signing secret Stripe gives you into Webhook signing secret. Step three. Offer Stripe and test it. Once a key is saved, tick Offer at checkout, and click Save changes again. The row now reads Offered at checkout. Test mode means the saved key is a test key. Test connection checks the saved key with Stripe, without charging anything, and the row then shows the result. Step four. Set up PayPal. Click the PayPal row to open it. It asks for a Client ID and a Secret, from an app you create in your PayPal developer account. Webhook ID comes from the webhook you add to that app. With it, your site can check that a payment notice really came from PayPal. Tick Use the PayPal sandbox while you test. Untick it to take real payments. Offer at checkout cannot be ticked yet. Save the Client ID and Secret first, then tick it and save again. Step five. See what a buyer gets. This is a ticketed event, as a visitor sees it, on a site with a gateway switched on. Each ticket on sale has a quantity control. If no gateway were switched on, this quantity control would be gone, and the ticket would read Not on sale. The visitor adds one ticket, and the button reads Get tickets. Clicking it starts a real order, so this tutorial stops here. That is all five. Payment gateways opened, your Stripe key added, Stripe offered and tested, PayPal set up, and the buyer side seen. Your site can now take payment for event tickets. Next in this series: Sell tickets: ticket types and prices.