Take cards, digital wallets and deposits right on your own site. Here is how to set it up, and how to avoid stitching together three separate tools to do it.
The simplest way to accept payments is to build your site on a platform that already has a checkout and connects to a card processor for you. You switch it on, link your account, and every product, booking or invoice can be paid on the spot. Instinctor includes this, so you are not bolting a payment plugin onto a page.
STEP BY STEP
Six steps to getting paid online
1. Connect a processor
Link Stripe or your card processor once. It handles the cards, the security and the payouts to your bank.
2. Add what you sell
List your products, services or a booking deposit, each with a price. Anything with a price can be paid for.
3. Turn on cards and wallets
Accept Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay, so customers pay the way they already do.
4. Add a Pay button
Drop a checkout, a Pay button, or a payment link on any page. No embed codes, no separate payment page to host.
5. Keep it secure
Card details never touch your site. The processor handles PCI compliance, so you do not have to.
6. Get paid out
Money lands in your bank on the processor normal schedule, with every payment logged in your dashboard.
BUILT IN VS BOLTED ON
Why not just add a payment plugin?
You can bolt a payment button from a third party onto most sites. It works, until you are reconciling payments in one tool, orders in another, and customers in a third.
One place for orders and payments
Every sale, who bought, and whether they paid live in the same dashboard, not scattered across apps.
Apple Pay and Google Pay ready
Wallet payments are built in, so mobile customers check out in one tap instead of typing a card.
Deposits and subscriptions too
Take a one-off payment, a booking deposit, or a recurring subscription from the same checkout.
WHAT ACCEPTING PAYMENTS TAKES
Secure checkout, money in your account
Accepting payments on your site means a customer can pay you directly, by card, without being sent off to a third party or asked to call. The essentials are a secure checkout, a payment processor that deposits into your account, and a flow that works as smoothly on a phone as on a laptop. Whether you sell products, take deposits, or charge for services, the payment step is where sales are won or lost, so it has to feel fast and trustworthy. Handle tax where it applies, send a receipt automatically, and never make the customer leave your site to pay.
WHERE SITES LOSE PAYMENTS
The mistakes that cost you sales
The first is sending customers off-site to pay, which breaks trust and loses the hesitant buyer. The second is a checkout that is clumsy on mobile, where most people now buy. The third is stitching together plugins that break, so payments silently fail. Keep checkout on your own site, make it flawless on a phone, and use a reliable processor, and more of the people who wanted to pay actually do.
THE RIGHT WAY
Accept payments the simple way
Take card payments right on your own site with a secure, mobile-smooth checkout that deposits into your account and sends receipts automatically. Instinctor has payments built in, no plugin stack to assemble, in one site you own, live in about a minute, free to start, so you can charge customers the moment you are ready.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions about taking payments
No. You connect a processor like Stripe, which acts as the merchant account and handles the banking side. You link it once and you are ready.
All the major cards plus Apple Pay and Google Pay, so customers pay with whatever they already have on their phone.
Yes. Card details go straight to the processor, never your site, so you are not storing or handling raw card numbers.
The processor charges a small percentage per transaction, the standard online card rate. Instinctor does not add a cut on top of your sales.
Yes. You can charge a deposit at booking or checkout and collect the rest later, which is common for services.
Payouts follow your processor normal schedule, usually a couple of business days, straight to your bank.