Simple Payments: An Easier Way for Merchants to Accept Payments Online

For many businesses, accepting payments online should be simple. Unfortunately, that isn't always the case.

Adding payments to a website can mean dealing with APIs, integrations, shopping carts, plugins, or development work. For a small business that doesn't have a developer or IT department, something that sounds simple can quickly turn into a much larger project or even a nightmare.

That's exactly why we created Simple Payments.

Simple Payments gives merchants an easy way to accept payments online without writing code or hiring a developer. A merchant can create a hosted payment page directly through the Fluid Pay gateway, customize it for their business, and start accepting payments quickly.

What is Simple Payments?

Simple Payments is a customizable hosted payment page that gives businesses a secure and convenient way to collect payments from their customers. This page is automatically generated and hosted by us. You add your products, recurring plans, or whatever you need on your checkout page, and we do the rest.

Once the page is created, merchants can use it in several different ways. They can add a payment button to their existing website, send customers a direct payment link, or create a QR code that takes customers directly to the payment page.

This makes Simple Payments useful for businesses well beyond traditional ecommerce.

• A contractor can send a payment link after completing a job.
• A nonprofit can create a page to accept donations.
• A club or organization can collect membership dues.
• A business attending an event can display a QR code for customers to scan and pay.
• An existing business website can add a simple "Pay Now" option without rebuilding the entire site.
• A church can use it for donations too.

The goal is to give merchants the ability to accept payments in a way that fits how they already do business.

More Than Just a Simple Payment Page

While Simple Payments is designed to be easy to use, there is a lot of functionality behind it.

Merchants can create custom products and fields, accept one-time or recurring transactions, create a custom URL, and use reporting to track individual events or sales. The payment page can also be customized to better match the merchant's branding and provide customers with a consistent checkout experience. Make it look like your business, not ours.

Because Simple Payments is part of the Fluid Pay gateway, merchants also have access to the broader tools and features available within the platform. As their business grows, they can take advantage of features such as Customer Vault, Recurring Billing, Virtual Terminal, and other Fluid Pay solutions without having to move to an entirely different payment platform.

Simple Payments can also support merchants using alternative pricing programs, including surcharge, cash discount, and dual pricing configurations.

Why Simple Payments Matters

Not every business has a development team, and a merchant shouldn't need one just to accept payments online.

We built Simple Payments to remove that barrier.

It gives smaller merchants an easy way to start accepting online payments while still giving them access to the technology and flexibility of the Fluid Pay gateway. For larger businesses, it can also provide a quick way to create dedicated payment pages without requiring development resources for every use case.

Whether it's a payment link, QR code, website button, donation page, or recurring payment, the idea is the same.

Make it easier for the customer to pay and easier for the merchant to get paid.

That's what Simple Payments is all about.

For more information regarding Simple Payments, email us at sales@fluidpay.com.

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