Examples

Paythen can be used with self-contained payment links that can be shared directly with customers. Integrate it with your ecommerce platform, use it with third party forms, or in almost any other workflow using Zapier. Below are some examples and demos.
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⚡ Direct plan links

The easiest way to use Paythen is to send direct payment links like these to customers. You can use these on your site, without a site and share them with your customers anywhere – like Whatsapp, email, linktree, facebook, and more. Here are examples of the six different plan types you can create direct links for. Each one is highly customizable to suit your business. Click on each to see a working example you can try.

Payment plan

A payment plan where customers pay over a set billing interval  and number of payments

Eg: $1,000 over 10 weekly payments or
€800 over 4 monthly payments, etc.

Date-based payment plan

A payment plan where everyone pays on the same pre-set dates regardless of when they sign up.

Eg: $100 on sign up, $200 on 20 Feb,
$400 on 12 Apr, $600 on 26 May, etc.

Wait for it payment plan

A payment plan where customers pay off their plan first, then get their product or service.

Eg: Pay over 10 weeks. We’ll begin production at 8 weeks and ship once fully paid.

Pay your way plan

Let some customers pay in full and some on a payment plan via one link

Subscription plan

Ongoing, recurring charge that continues unless cancelled

One time payment

Standard payment link if you need customers to pay once

🙋‍♀️ Customer self-serve links

Paythen is designed to reduce as much admin for you as possible. A key part of this is letting your customers view and manage their plan information themselves without requiring manual support from you. Each customers on Paythen plan gets a unique self-serve link that lets them manage their plan, update billing info, make early payments, get receipts, and more. This link is automatically included in all system emails sent to them.

They can also get access to this link via your company’s public link you can add on your site and in your help docs.

Customer self-serve page

Generated for each customer to easily manage their plan 24 x 7

Your public company link

Let customers get their self-serve links emailed to them anytime

🛍️ eCommerce

Shareable plan links work well for many businesses. But for eCommerce or other instances where each customer’s total is different, we have templates. Templates let you pre-set certain parameters like billing intervals, surcharges, and other rules. Each customer’s payment plan then follows those rules, even though their payment amounts differ. Eg: Charge 10 weekly payments, with a 20% upfront deposit, and a 5% admin fee.

You can have one or more of these templates in your account and use them in different workflows and with different workflows. Here are examples of some popular platforms and workflows but you can use templates with almost any system either directly or through our Zapier app.

Woocommerce plugin

Try our demo woocommerce store using our fully featured plugin.

Email based workflow

Experience our email based workflow on Shopify that uses Zapier.

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Closed platforms

This is a demo Squarespace site of a photography studio that uses direct Pay your way plan links for each of their packages. When you have a small number of offerings, direct links can work well but if you need to offer payment plans for varying cart totals, Paythen might not suit.

Closed platforms like Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and others limit the level of integration we can offer since they don’t allow most third-party platforms to integrate directly into the checkout flow.

Here’s a demo of a WooCommerce site using the new blocks checkout and theme (also called Gutenberg).

If you have a custom checkout flow using Cartflows on your WordPress site, here’s a demo.

If you have a custom checkout flow using FunnelKit on your WordPress site, here’s a working demo.

🎟️ Eventbrite

There are two different ways to offer payment plans on your Eventbrite page – with separate ticket types or by using the pay by invoice option and a custom field. Each one has pros and cons and detailed setup instructions outlined here. Here are demo events of each approach so you can see them in action and choose one that suits.

Approach 1: Separate ticket types

Use separate ticket types for the payment plan option. Uses the free ticket type.

Approach 2: Same ticket types

Use existing ticket types for both payment options. Uses the “Pay by invoice” option and a custom field.

📋 Form tools

This example below uses Jotform but you can use Paythen with most popular form builders like Formstack, Typeform, Tally, Gravity Forms and many others. If you can pass form field values to the thank you page via url parameters and set a custom thank you page, you can use Paythen to offer a payment plan option with your forms.

See example form that uses

Many education and service businesses use Paythen as the installment option directly integrated into their enrollment and application or general forms. People submitting the form that choose the “pay via installments” option are redirected to their custom payment plan page once they submit the form and the rest continue to use the built in payment options.

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💌 Send custom payment plan links via email

Our Zapier action lets you send a custom payment plan link to customers via email based on data from any other app like when a status changes in your CRM, a new entry is in Google Sheets, a new booking in Calendly and much more. This enables a good workflow with thousands of apps that can’t be directly integrated or if you prefer simple, reliable and asynchronous email based workflow.