How to Create An Order form in WordPress

Are you looking for a tool to create order form in your WordPress Blog? If yes, then this post is for you. In this post, I am going to show you how to create an order form in WordPress?

WordPress is a flexible CMS and allows you to create almost any type of website. Creating an order form helps you to collect payments from your clients directly on your website. If you are selling eBooks, services, etc. then having an order form saves your time.

How to create order form in WordPress

In this tutorial I am going to tell you about a tool that helps you to create order form for your WordPress Blog. The name of the tool is WPForms. Yes, your heard it right. WPForms is a great and easy to use tool that helps you to create an Order form for your blog.

To create an order form using WPForms, you need to buy their Pro plan. WPForms comes with both free and paid plans. Free plans come with limited features while premium plans comes with many exciting features.

The premium plan they offer currently are as follows:

1. Basic Plan ($39.50 per year)

In this plan you will get all basic features that help you to create professionally designed forms. Some of the features you will get are:

2. Plus Plan ($99.50 per year)

This plan is an ideal choice for growing businesses that needs more addon and features to boost up their performance. In this plan you will get:

Everything in Basic plan, plus:

3. Pro Plan ($199.50 per year)

This is a best value plan as it comes with some decent form features and multiple 3^rd party integration to your form. This plan has everything that needs to be creating a professional web forms including order forms.  Features come under this plan are:  

Everything in the Plus plan and also includes:

4. Elite Plan ($299.50 per year)

This is a powered packed plan for large and smart business owners. This is the highest plan that WPForms offers to its users. In this plan, you will get:

Everything in Pro, plus:

So, these are the pricing and features that you will get. It also comes with pre-designed forms and easy to use drag and drop form builder. You can easily create any type of form using this intuitive tool.

How to create Order form using WPForms

Creating a form was never easy again. WPForms makes everything so easy that a novice can make professionally designed forms in a minute. You can create an order form is just a few steps:

Step 1. Install and activate WPForms

To get started, you need to install and activate the WPForms plugin. To do so, just log in to your WordPress admin panel. Click on the Plugins tab and then in the search bar type WPforms.

You will find the WPForms plugin at the first of search page. Click install and activate.

Make sure, you have purchased the Pro Plan of WPForms to create a order form.

Step 2. Create and design your order form.

Go to the the WPForms menu and click create one. You can select the billing and order form option.

Now , you have to setup or modify  the items that are available for order.

To do this, scroll down to the “Available Items” section on the right that the template includes and click on it.

It will open up the “Field Options” in the left panel. Here you can rename the field, add or remove order items, and change the prices.

You also use the images for your available products. To do the same select the image option below the item list. When you are done with adding the products. Click the save button.

Step 3. Set up form notifications

There are two settings to configure in your order form. The first is the Notifications setting. Notifications are a great way to send an email when your form is submitted. To setup the notifications, click the setting and click notifications

Here you need to add an email address that received a notification when a new order is submitted.

The second notification setting is form confirmations. Form confirmation is messages that display for customers once they submit the order form.

First, click on the Confirmation tab in the Form Editor under Settings.

Next, select the type of confirmation type you’d like to create. If you selected the message option then you need to customize the message that will show when a user submitted the form.

Step 4. Set up the payment gateway

To make your order form works perfectly, you need to set up the payment option for your form. So, when your users submit the form they will redirect to the payment page to complete the payment.

You can Integrate PayPal, Authorize.net, and Stripe for your payments. If you have purchase their pro plan then these addon will activated automatically. Otherwise, you need to buy these addon additionally.

To setup the payments for your form click the Payments tab in the Form Editor. Here, you will find the available payment options. For example, if you want to setup the PayPal then select the PayPal standard payment

Here you need to enter your PayPal email address, select the Production mode, choose Products and Services, and adjust other settings as needed.

When you’re done configuring the payment settings, click the Save button to save your changes. Make sure, you have checked everything carefully.

Step 5. Add the form to your WordPress pages

To add the order form to your posts and pages you need to copy the short code of the form. You can get this short code just right side of your created form.

Copy this short code and place it anywhere in your post and pages to show the order form.

Congrats! You have successfully created an order form for your WordPress blog.

Over to you

In this tutorial, I hope you have learned how to create order form in your WordPress blog. If you are still wondering and thinking how to create an order form than don’t waste your time. Just use the WPForms and get started. If you found the post useful, don’t forget to share it with your friends.