How to Enable Offline Payment Option in Events ?
Offline payment options allow your users to process payments without a traditional online payment gateway or card payment options.
Additionally, the transactions are recorded and the payment is processed later by the admin.
This payment processing system is widely used by event-based websites, eCommerce websites, membership and subscription websites.
Offering multiple payment options such as offline payment along with the top payment gateways helps retain more customers and increase sales.
To incorporate offline WordPress payment options into your website, you can utilize the Offline Payments extension by EventPrime.
The extension enables your users to book tickets for events using offline payment options. You can further process these payments from your dashboard.
Apart from this payment option, EventPrime comes with other multiple payment options such as PayPal, Stripe, and more. You can explore all the features of this plugin here.
In this article, we have additionally demonstrated how to add payment option to website along with all the features of the Offline Payment extension.
Features of Offline Payment Extension:
The extension boasts multiple high-value features that allow you to accept, manage, and process offline payments without any hassle. Here are some of the highlights of this extension:
- Multiple setting options for offline paymentsÂ
- Easy process of adding, managing, and accepting offline paymentÂ
- Display the offline payment option on the event booking payment page
- Allow event attendees to book the event with a pending payment status
- Update and maintain the status of offline bookings for attendees on the backend Attendees page
- An option to cancel offline bookings for users and admin
- Mark the canceled offline bookings as refunded
- Automatically cancels the bookings for recurring events when the main event is canceled
A guide on how to add offline payment options to your WordPress website:
To get started, download and install the extension from this link or the button below. If you have the premium or premium+ version of EventPrime, you do not need to download the extension separately. The above-mentioned packages include the extension already.
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Once, you have download and installed the extension on your backend, follow the below-given steps:
Step1: Go to the EventPrime left menu and click on Global Setting on your WordPress dashboard.
Step2:Â Scroll down to the Payments option and click on it.
Step3: On this page, you can set up multiple payment options for your bookings.
Step4: Click and enable ‘Offline’ to activate offline payments on your website.
Step5: Once the setting is saved, the offline payment option will be displayed on the frontend for all the event bookings.Â
How users can use the offline payment option for booking events?
Step1: Go to the event calendar on your website.
Step2: Hover your cursor over the event you want to book and click on ‘Book Now.’
Step3: Fill in the attendee details and click on ‘Proceed.’
Step4: Furthermore, on the next page, select ‘Offline’ and click on ‘Checkout.’
Step5: Next, you will receive a confirmation message and an option to check your booking details.
Step6:Â Here you can see the ‘Payment Status’ as ‘Pending’ since the admin has not processed and confirmed the payment status.
How admin can manage and change the status for pending offline payments?
Step1: Go to EventPrime left menu on your Dashboard and click on ‘Attendees.’
Step2: On the Attendee page you can manage all the bookings and attendee details. Additionally, you can use the filters to search or filter attendees.
Step3: Click on the ‘View’ option to change the booking status for the particular attendee.
Step4: On the next page change the payment status to Pending, Received, or Canceled.
Step5: You will receive a pop-up to confirm whether you certainly want to change the payment status to received or not. Click ‘OK’ to confirm.
Step6: Once confirmed, the user payment status on the backend as well as frontend will change into ‘Received.’
Concluding Note
Offline WordPress payment options have lately become one of the most used payment options.
And the Offline Payments extension not only sets you ahead in the sales game but also allows you to manage and add striking offline payment methods to your WordPress website.Â
However, it is advised to offer multiple payment options for your users such as online payment gateways, card payment options, and offline payment options.
EventPrime can serve as a complete solution as it not only offers top payment gateways but also allows you to add offline payment options. To explore more about this plugin click the below-given button.Â