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Use Advanced Recurring Subscriptions on Wufoo Forms with Chargify Payment Integration
WufooDecember 13, 2010
Hey, hey friends! We are delighted to announce that we’ve just put the finishing touches on a new payment integration with Chargify.com. Now you can setup and access fairly advanced recurring payment subscriptions like assigning one price on initial submission and charging a different amount for monthly (or even yearly) periods right from your Wufoo forms.
Easy to Set Up
Chargify is an affordable and easy to use web service that makes it a cinch to create and manage your recurring credit card payments. One thing that’s really nice about working with Chargify, is that they provide a FREE plan with more than enough features to get started including trying out how everything will work without even having to create a merchant account. For example, you can start making products and subscriptions right after logging in and all you need to make it work with Wufoo is your Chargify subdomain and API Key.
On our end, you’ll need to create a form on Wufoo with a required Email address and have either a Multiple Choice Field or Dropdown field on your form that we can assign products you’ve created on Chargify to the choices of those fields. Here’s an example form we created to show you how it’ll all work and feel.
Flexible
Chargify handles everything from subscriptions to reporting to email notifications, and they support a number of payment processors including Authorize.net, Verisign, Braintree and Beanstream. Chargify also allows for a lot of flexibility as to how recurring subscriptions are configured. Does your product have a setup fee? Do you want to offer a trial for free or at a discounted price? How much, how often, and for how long should your customers be billed? These are variables that Chargify accounts for and makes easy to set up.
Recurring billing can get pretty complicated, but Chargify helps minimize your stress with a number of additional features, including reporting, PCI compliance, and an iPhone app. Their dunning management tool is especially helpful, as it helps you minimizes the losses incurred with with failed charges, like expired or declined credit cards.
We’re really excited about this new payment form integration and can’t wait to see what you guys do with the new capabilities. The Grasshopper Group Team and the guys at Chargify have been a delight to work with and we hope to see this integration get better and better as time goes on.