Product Directory Payments Add-On
The WordPress Product Directory Payments Add-On allows admin to set a price for listing a new product or renewing an existing one.
When adding a new product, the user will receive an email with a payment link. Once the link is clicked, the user will be taken to the cart to complete the payment.
Cart System Supporting Payments
| The cart system used by the Product Directory Payments are either WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads, which has more than 50 available payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, Skrill, 2Checkout and many more. |
Showing cart containing the payment for product submission |
Using the Product Directory Payments Add-On
- Pay for New Listings – Charge users for submitting new listings in a directory
- Pay for Listing Renewals – Automatically charge users for renewing existing listings
- Pay for Claiming a Product – Charge users for claiming an existing product in the directory
Product Directory Payments Prerequisite Plugin
This Add-On is a supplement for the Product Directory Plugin that lets users submit and manage their own listings within the product directory.
Product Directory Payments Plugin Frequently Asked Questions
What payment methods does this add-on work with?
The payments add-on for Product Directory works with either the Easy Digital Downloads or the WooCommerce payment platforms. By default these use Paypal which can also offer guest checkout so your users won’t need to log into a PayPal account to pay for a Product listing.
However if you wish to use a different payment gateway to PayPal there are plenty of other options offered by both EDD and WooCommerce, some are free others are paid.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Can coupon codes be created to discount paying for Product Listings?
Yes. Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce both support the creation of coupon codes.
How do I set the price of paying for a Product Listing?
You first need to create a product using Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce (whichever you have chosen). Then this product is associated with paying for listings within the payments tab of the Product Directory Settings.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Is it possible to show a limited version of Product Listings until site visitors have paid for the full access?
Yes you can, there is a Limited free view option available through the admin panel settings.
To learn more about how this works see this Help article.
Can I use this to charge my site users for renewal of a product listing with recurring payments?
Yes you can. The Product Directory Payments add-on comes with a recurring payments option in the plugin settings. Decide how often renewal is required, how much a renewal costs and how far in advance renewal requests are automatically sent.
Renewal reminder emails can be customized and can include placeholder shortcodes to inject more directly relevant content into the email.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
I want to install the Product Directory Community add-on to allow users to upload products to the listing, can this allow me to charge them for this?
Yes, they work together. If you have the Community Add-on you can charge for allowing site visitors for both Adding new products to the directory and also for Claiming existing products on the directory.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
What can I charge my site visitors / potential product listing owners for?
You can charge for creating a new listing or claiming existing when the Product Directory Community add-on is installed.
If you haven’t got the Community add-on installed you can set up a free version of the listing and a paid version. It is up to you what content to show to customers before they pay to see the paid version and how much they must pay to view it, and for how long.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
