Coinsnap Plugin for Contact Form 7
Accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments with Contact Form 7. How to integrate Bitcoin and Lightning payments into Contact Form 7.
Contact Form 7 is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create and manage custom contact forms on a WordPress website.
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins for contact forms and is used by millions of websites worldwide. It is one of the most frequently downloaded and used plugins in the WordPress plugin directory.
With Contact Form 7, website owners can create forms with different fields such as name, email, subject, message, etc. and embed them in their pages or posts.
It is highly customizable and allows users to change the look and feel of their contact forms.
It also supports integration with various other WordPress plugins and services for additional functionality, such as Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 for receiving Bitcoin and Lightning payments.
With Coinsnap for Contact Form 7, the contact form can be extended to a payment form. In this way, a donation page can be created via which visitors to the website can donate. However, it is also possible to create a payment button, e.g. to offer files for download against payment in Bitcoin.
Contact Form 7 Demo Store
If you would like to try out for yourself how you can accept Bitcoin and Lightning with the help of Contact Form 7, visit our Contact Form 7 demo page at this link.
Contact form
When you fill out the form, you can try out the ContactForm 7 plugin, which allows you to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments via Coinsnap in your online shop.
Payment
The customer is taken to the payment page and can pay with Bitcoin or Lightning.
Contact Form 7 for WordPress
You must have Contact form 7 running on your WordPress site. You can search for it in the WordPress plugin search and then click on Install or download it here.
Installation Coinsnap for Contact Form 7
The Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 plugin can be downloaded from the Coinsnap GitHub page. We have also applied for inclusion in the WordPress directory. Until then, installation is only possible via GitHub.
You can download the Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 plugin from the Coinsnap Github page and install it on your WordPress site.
Visit the Coinsnap Github page. There you will find all the payment modules provided by Coinsnap. Go to Coinsnap for Contact Form 7
There you will find the green button labeled Code. When you click on it, the menu opens and Download ZIP appears. Here you can download the latest version of the Coinsnap plugin to your computer.
Then use the “Upload plugin” function to install it. Click on “Install now” and the Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 plugin will be added to your WordPress website. It can then be connected to the Coinsnap payment gateway.
Once the Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 plugin is installed and activated, a message will appear asking you to configure the plugin settings
Configuring Coinsnap for Contact Form 7
After Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 has been installed, the plugin must be activated.
We open Contact Form 7 in the left menu bar and click on Settings.
Under Settings we find the Payment Gateways item in the top menu bar and below it the list of all Contact Form 7 payment gateways and now also Coinsnap.
We click on Manage and can only make the individual settings.
First we need the store ID and the API key from Coinsnap. To do this, we log in to Coinsnap and go to the Setting section.
If you don’t have a Coinsnap account yet, you can create one here.
All you need is an email address and a Lightning Wallet with a Lightning address. You can find out how to create a Coinsnap account under First steps.
In the Store Settings sub-item, we find the Store ID and API Key details. We need this information because both details must be stored with GetPaid.
Under Activate, we check the box to activate Coinsnap as a payment gateway.
In the Store ID and API Key fields, we enter the data that we have just copied from the Coinsnap Store Settings.
We then save the stored data.
Coinsnap for Contact Form 7 makes it easy to store the Coinsnap Bitcoin Payment Gateway with Contact Form 7. Your customers can now pay with Bitcoin and Lightning at Contact form 7.