I’m running a cycling festival for Macmillan Cancer Support in September and i’ve put our website together with WordPress using the Avada theme. i want to take online payments for entry but haven’t got a clue how to do it or where to start.

does anyone else run payments through WordPress? what’s a good/the best/easiest/securest way to do it?

You only want to take payment for one product? Just create the product in PayPal and they will give you some html to insert a button onto your page. Anything else is more complicated.

Sightly more funky? Create the event in Eventbrite and link/embed that event. It’s pretty good.

If you *really* want to spend hours, wooCommerce.

Rachel

actually, there are about 4 rides that i want to sell entry for. could that be done through Paypal?

i had a look at Eventbrite and it looks like i would post a link on my site for entry on Eventbrite. is that correct? have you used it?

i really don’t want to/can’t spend hours.

You can create 4 Paypal buttons yes (biz user): https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/web/

Or you could use the build in shop for your theme: https://theme-fusion.com/avada-doc/special-features/woocommerce/

Eventbrite has done all the hard work for you already. Link your WordPress site to an Eventbrite page you’ve setup

In fact there is even an Eventbrite ‘plugin’ for WordPress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/eventbrite-api/

I use this plugin on my site.

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart

and the site…

Broken Arrow UK Custom Hand Painted Targets for Field Archery
http://brokenarrowuk.com/