Create Payments Forms on WordPress with Stripe

If you thought WordPress was just for blogging, then you better catch up. The publishing platform means business. Real, profitable, robust business.

All types of online businesses are thriving on WordPress. E-commerce stores are simplifying their sales process with compelling payment forms built with tools like FormBuilder and embedded on any WordPress page.

And they are increasing their profits too, since all financial transactions can be easily handled and vouched by the trustworthy payment platform Stripe, for instance.

Yes, WordPress is all grown up and offers easy access to countless resources for those launching a new venture online. Or for existing online businesses too, looking for a better payment solution.

My intent with this article is to show non-users and WordPress fans alike that an online business can be easily set up and managed on the platform.

You can design your website on WordPress, then add a fully responsive and impressive FormBuilder payment form, powered byStripe no less, to attract more shoppers and start collecting payment in no time.

Let’s take a look at the current online business community on WordPress, the benefits, the trends, and how you can build your own impressive Stripe payment form with FormBuilder.

What exactly is WordPress

WordPress was originally created as a blog publishing system, but a lot has evolved since its release in 2003. Now known as the more comprehensive definition of free and open-source content management system (CMS), it hosts all types of web content, including online stores and e-commerce.

No wonder why WordPress powers more than 40% of all websites. It has empowered people to create and host websites requiring little to no coding knowledge. You can even get a head start from one of the 12,000+ free templates or the so-called WordPress Themes.

But WordPress extensible plugin framework is what gets its users to go beyond web creation. WordPress Plugins unlock further features and functionalities, tailoring, and boosting websites for specific purposes.

And because WordPress is so content-focused, online stores hosted on the platform have better SEO results than solely e-commerce-oriented platforms, like Shopify. Meaning, more organic web traffic from qualified prospects.

The diversity of the WordPress business community ranges from solo entrepreneurs, freelancers, independent instructors, home-based businesses to some of the Fortune 500 companies like TED, Sony, UPS, and Best Buy.

But how about selling goods and services on WordPress? Although there is no accurate number of how many out of total websites hosted on WordPress are online stores, we can have an idea.

For instance, just on Woocommerce, WordPress' most popular e-commerce plugin, there are more than four million live online stores.

The online shopping growth had a big push in 2020. How big? According to IBM’s 2020 U.S. Retail Index, the pandemic accelerated the shift from physical stores to e-commerce by five years, and shoppers never went back.

There’s never been a better time to start your own e-commerce. And it’s never been this easy to set one up.

7 Major Benefits of Hosting Your Online Business on WordPress

It’s so interesting – and rare – to see a tool or platform that works so well across the board like WordPress. But it truly is a universal one-size-fits-all kind of deal.

From one-person businesses to well-established companies, any trade can be easily managed and customized using WordPress as their hassle-free CMS publishing tool.

The accessibility provided by WordPress to literally anyone wishing to start an online business is what makes it a real disruptive technology. The innovation it brings to how people conduct businesses nowadays makes it possible for anyone to become the next Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma.

But let us take baby steps before we run.

Even if you own a physical store, if you’re not online, you virtually don’t exist. And if there’s anything the last few years taught us is that you must establish your online presence.

Online shopping has become an indispensable part of retail and it will soon be the primary method for purchasing goods and services.

So, if you want your business to take off and you’re shopping around (pun intended) for online solutions, allow me to show you the seven top benefits of hosting your e-commerce on WordPress:

1. Affordable

Technically, WordPress as the software itself is open-source and 100% free. If your project is too complex, you might want to hire a professional web designer to create your WordPress website for you. But honestly, the platform is so intuitive, that you might get away with it yourself.

In order to go live though, you’ll need a web hosting service and a domain name. But fortunately, there are great service providers out there with very affordable pricing. Then, depending on the purpose of your project, you might have added costs in order to hire certain features. But when you consider the total costs summed up, the amount for hosting your online business on WordPress is very reasonable.

2. Evergreen

I’m sure you’ll begin your project hoping it will last. So you need a solid platform that stays live and updated. Even though WordPress is “old” (in digital years), it has always been kept up-to-date with the latest technology. The regular updates are what ensures that the platform keeps running without any major glitch, for more than two decades now.

Since WordPress powers about 40% of the web, you can be sure the platform can handle web traffic and viewing interaction. And because WordPress is an open-source software, it is constantly being improved by contributors. Rest assured that your online business will always stay fresh on WordPress.

3. Customizable

When you look at the websites for CNN, NASA, The PlayStation Blog, Microsoft News, and Vogue Magazine, it’s hard to believe they are all built and hosted on WordPress. TheWordPress Showcase debunks the myth that the use of templates, or Themes, in this case, makes everything look the same.

Every element of your website is customizable on WordPress. This design freedom and flexibility not only make your website your own but help you come up with a stunning and compelling layout that attracts viewers. Unlimited customization applies to your payment form as well, making your online business unique.

4. SEO-friendly

Even if you’re not SEO-savvy, your website will rank well on WordPress. The platform itself is naturally designed to contribute to your Search Engine Optimization results effortlessly. WordPress makes it easy for its users to figure out H1, H2, and H3 tags, as well as keywords placement in your website URL.

But in order to organically grow your online business, you have to do some planning towards SEO improvement. And that’s where WordPress definitely stands out. You can easily add strategic SEO extensions and plugins to your website, like Yoast SEO or Rank Math, to really nail it.

5. Community

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, runs with a fairly small staff of around 2,000 employees. It might be hard to grasp how so much data is handled by so few. But the real beauty about WordPress is its strong community collaboration and support.

Since it’s been around for quite some time now, WordPress has gathered a fan base of users and developers. If you need any help setting up, managing, or growing your online business, you bet you’ll find a friendly community to guide you and offer free advice.

6. Scalability

As I’ve mentioned before, the range of businesses on WordPress is very diverse. So when you see that a startup and a well-known company like The Walt Disney Company use the same publishing platform, you can be sure that it can handle business growth.

WordPress offers reasonable resources for those who are just testing the waters with their online business, to powerful features that enable sustained growth for those who’ve made it big. The scalability provided by WordPress guarantees your time and money invested will not be useless or outgrown.

7. Plugins

Think of WordPress Plugin Directory as the App Store of your phone. You have a great structure already, just have to add accessories to suit your needs. And boy, WordPress, got ‘em. There are more than 65,000 (and counting) plugins available. Small scripts of codes that extend the functionality of WordPress from calendars, custom languages, landing pages generator, spam blockers, to grammar correctors, and much more.

But there is one essential piece when it comes to hosting your very own online business, online store, e-commerce, or marketplace: a payment form. There are a few ways you can have that added to your WordPress website. But this brings us to my next topic: impressive payment forms powered by Stripe created with FormBuilder and embedded on your WordPress site.

Payments Forms Powered by Stripe

Simply because no purchase is truly online if you can’t conveniently pay for something straight from the website, you’ll need to provide a payment form.

Forget about redirecting people to another page in order to process payment or worse, offer only improvised offline payment methods to your customers. Today any online business can have access to professional-looking and trustworthy payment forms for their shoppers.

While browsing the WordPress Plugin Directory for payment form plugins, you’ll encounter many choices. But never mind those stiff, ugly, questionable, and complicated payment forms from the early days.

Also, dismiss the idea that payment forms handled by well-known payment platforms like Stripe, is only affordable by big companies.

Your WordPress website can easily display Stripe payment forms by building one with a FormBuilder Stripe payment form template and embedding it.

About The FormBuilder and Stripe Partnership

FormBuilder is an online form builder, created to help you capture more leads and automate onboarding submissions. You can easily create any type of form for any type of purpose or industry, from scratch, or frompre-optimized templates.

All forms created with FormBuilder are fully responsive, customizable, mobile-friendly, and packed with furtherfeatures andintegrations.

In particular, our payment forms are powered by Stripe. This means you can collect customer information and payment, without the whole financial complexity, straight on your form.

Stripe payment fields are available on every FormBuilder plan, including the free plan (5 active forms, 100 responses per month). FormBuilder does not add a fee of its own; you pay only Stripe's standard processing fee of 2.9% + $0.30 per US card transaction. Prices checked September 2026. You get a fixed price or a customer-chosen amount directly on your payment form. Oh, and without the hassle of handling payment gateways.

Your Stripe payment forms can do more, too. FormBuilder offers smart form solutions to automate your payment form. Enable email notifications for your team, automatic confirmation emails to the customer with your own subject and message, thank-you pages, form analytics, a native Google Sheets connection, webhooks, and Zapier links to Mailchimp, your CRM and much more.

By the way, the same embed works on other no-code friendly site builders, like Webflow, Squarespace, Wix and Shopify.

How to Create Impressive Stripe Payment Forms with FormBuilder on WordPress

Hopefully, I got you psyched to get started on wowing your customers right away. Don’t worry, setting up your Stripe Payment Form on WordPress is a piece of cake.

Build your form in FormBuilder first, then copy its embed code. In the WordPress block editor, open the page, click the + block inserter, search for “HTML”, add a Custom HTML block and paste the embed code. Click Update and the form appears on the page. (On WordPress.com, embed code in a Custom HTML block needs a plan with hosting features. Self-hosted WordPress works on any plan.) If you prefer, you can also just link to the form's own page.

On the FormBuilder dashboard, build your form from scratch, describe it to the AI generator, or select one of the payment form templates. Then, all you gotta do is add a Stripe payment field and set a fixed price or let the customer choose the amount.

You’ll be asked to connect your Stripe account to FormBuilder. In case you don’t have a Stripe account yet, create one at stripe.com first, then come back and connect it.

Once the main structure of your Stripe payment form is created, you can embellish it with our customization options. Reorder any field. Change colors or fonts. Add images or your own logo for brand identity.

Your WordPress online business can soar to new horizons with an impressive payment form! Attract more customers by providing a safe, responsive, and compelling Stripe payment form by FormBuilder. Count on the FormBuilder help center to guide you through our powerful form solutions.