What’s new.
We’re constantly improving Paythen to make it more useful for you. We highlight recently released features and updates below. If you’re looking for something specific, ask us via the chat icon.
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23 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Offer payment plans only for specific WooCommerce products
We’re excited to ship one of our most requested WooCommerce features – the ability to offer payment plans only for specific products. You can now do exactly that with our WooCommerce plugin. You can offer payment plans for one or more products with just two clicks.
To add this on your WooCommerce store, ensure you have v0.6.2 or higher of our plugin installed (you can download the latest version via your Paythen dashboard), then switch ON the relevant “Enable Paythen for specific products only” checkbox in the plugin settings, and click “Save”:
Then go to each WooCommerce product you want to enable payment plans for, and check the “Show payment plan option when this product is in the cart” option, and click Publish:
This option shows up in the right sidebar of the product page edit view, so ensure your theme/view has the sidebar showing if you can’t see this.
You can now check this box for each product that should have the payment plan option. This will show the payment plan option at checkout only if this product is in the cart. If there are other products in the cart, they will be included in the payment plan total also.
Combine this with our product level “how it works” snippet and pop-up to maximize its effectiveness. Read more here.
Not sure how to do this? No worries, just reach out to us and we can help.
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16 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Highlight payment plans on WooCommerce product pages
If you’re using Paythen on your WooCommerce store, you can now highlight the availability of payment plans on each product page. This lets your customers know they can choose an easy way to pay when they check out. Customers can click on the i icon accompanying this text to see a pop-up that explains how the payment plan process works. In addition to the default text and icons, you can add your own custom text too to provide customers with more context.
See a live demo of how this works on our WooCommerce Demo Store. Here’s a preview of the how it works pop up they’ll see:
To add this on your WooCommerce store, just ensure you have v0.6.2 or higher installed (you can download the latest version via your Paythen dashboard) and then enable this via the plugin settings.
Not sure how to do this? No worries, just reach out to us and we can help.
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16 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Limited edit option for plans with customers
Till now, you couldn’t edit any data on plans which had customers on them. We’ve now introduced a limited edit option that lets you easily change any text fields like the plan name, description, terms text and more at any time on plans with or without customers.
For plans with customers, you still can’t edit the numbers or plan configuration as this causes issues with existing customers and plan reporting but text edits are now easy. To make bigger changes to the plan, you’ll need to create a copy of the plan and then archive the old plan.
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14 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Multi-currency support on WooCommerce
The Paythen WooCommerce plugin now supports stores that offer checkout in multiple currencies. This requires no configuration or changes to your setup. All you need to do is make sure you have version 0.6.2 or later installed on your site. you can download the latest version via your Paythen dashboard.
Paythen’s WooCommerce plugin will automatically detect customers’ checkout currencies and generate a payment plan in that currency.
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10 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
New filtering options in the Paythen dashboard
We’ve added some new filtering options in your Paythen dashboard to keep things tidy and easier to manage:
👉 You can now hide archived plans on the plans page in your dashboard
👉 You can now hide cancelled or completed customers on the customers page in your dashboard
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08 May 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Shopify: Highlight payment plans on product pages
If you’re using Paythen on your Shopify store, you can now highlight the availability of payment plans on each product page – just above the Add to cart button. This lets your customers know they can choose an easy way to pay when they check out. Customers can click on the i icon accompanying this text to see a pop-up that explains how the payment plan process works. See a live demo of how this works on our Shopify demo store here. Here’s a preview of the how it works pop up they’ll see:
To add this on your Shopify store, just follow the instructions here. Not sure how to do this? No worries, just reach out to us and we can help.
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03 April 2023LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
WooCommerce: Let customers choose their installments
Maximize your conversions by letting customers pick the length of their payment plans – within a range you define of course! This much requested feature lets your WooCommerce customers decide how many installments they want to pay their payment plan over – aligning it with their cashflow and increasing your chances of getting that sale. This is just a checkbox away in your Paythen plugin settings. You must have version 0.5.3 or higher of the plugin to see this functionality.
Once you have it installed, just check the box to let customers choose the number of installments, enter a minimum and optional maximum number and each customers will be able to choose their installments at checkout. The billing interval (weekly or monthly) will remain whatever you’ve set in your template. You can download the latest version of the plugin from the Integrations tab in your Paythen account.
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07 July 2022LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
New payment fields + improved Apple Pay, GPay, Alipay and iDEAL support
We’ve released a big new update to the payment fields for all plan types in Paythen – these look slightly different but have huge changes behind the scenes that will allow us to bring you new localised payment methods faster and more securely. You’ll notice the payment fields look and are slightly different vs. before. The card number, cvv and expiry date fields are now separated – and a new country field will show on all plans – this country filled is used by Stripe for additional verification to combat fraud and reduce instances of failed payments. This will automatically detect your customer’s country and be pre-filled.
- Google Pay, Apple Pay are now available for all plan and payment types – previously they were only available for one-time payments. They also work with or without custom fields, giving your customers more options.
- Alipay is now available for eligible one-time payments
- iDEAL (popular in the Netherlands) is now available and will automatically display for eligible customers for one-time payments
The new payment fields also dynamically adjust to show the payment methods most likely to convert based on a customer’s location, browser and many other factors – this is based on the billions of transactions Stripe has analysed and processed so far.
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13 July 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Discount codes now available
Discount codes (coupon codes) have been one of the most requested features in Paythen. We’re excited to launch discount codes for all plan types in Paythen. As with anything else in Paythen, discount codes are super easy to create, manage and use. Try them out now in your Paythen dashboard or read more about how to set them up and how they work across different plans here.
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17 June 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Zapier integration
Supercharge your workflow by sending Paythen data to over 3,000 apps with Zapier – including Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets & more. Our Zapier app is currently in an open beta. You won’t see it in the Zapier app list but you can add it to your Zapier account via this link.
Read more about some popular workflows and integrations here.
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16 June 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
3x faster admin page load times
If you have plans with hundreds or thousands of customers, or just have a lot of customers, loading the plans and customers pages could take a little while…
We’ve completely re-worked how these are displayed so they load way faster than before – with the difference noticeable if you open the plans page, the customers page, or plan reports with 200+ customers. We’re constantly optimising Paythen under the hood to make things faster and better for you and your customers.
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08 April 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Zapier app in invite-only
Our Zapier app is now available on request and will let you send Paythen customer data into all your other systems – from your CRM, to Google Sheets and lots more. It’s currently in an open beta – which means anyone can use it but you won’t be able to see it in the Zapier app store yet (that’s coming soon too).
If you’d like access to our Zapier app now, just email hello@paythen.co or let us know via the chat icon below and we’ll send you a link with access.
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04 May 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Improved payment descriptions in Stripe
Many customers use their Stripe accounts to run advanced reports and other automations. We’ve improved the description we pass into your Stripe account for each payment. This now includes a unique plan ID which never changes for each plan. You’ll see a unique ID like this: project_management_fundamentals_3ydwf2addx_plan This is automatically generated by Paythen when you create a new plan and never changes. This makes it easier to identify payments for specific plans in your Stripe dashboard.
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15 March 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Improved Apple Pay & Google Pay support
Paythen now supports a better, easier Apple Pay & Google Pay experience for your customers. You just need to switch Apple Pay to “On” in your Paythen settings, and no action is needed for Google Pay. Your customers will see the Apple Pay or Google Pay buttons for one-time payments (support for recurring plans is coming soon) automatically when they’re on a device that supports it. Read more about how it works here.
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01 March 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Automated failed payment notifications
Scheduled payments can often fail – new cards, expired cards, insufficient funds, and more. Till now, this meant manually checking customer records in Stripe and spending time and effort chasing customers. Paythen makes this completely hassle-free and fully automated by sending your customers failed payment notifications every time an attempt fails. This email includes a handy link to update their card details.
You, or other admins on your Paythen account can choose to be notified too. You can toggle these settings via your Paythen dashboard.
Read more about failed payments in Paythen.
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15 February 2021LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Better multi-currency plan reports
Paythen makes it easy to offer plans in any currency you want. However having different currencies can make it harder for you to understand reports and compare different plans with each other. Paythen now makes this way easier for you.
If you have a plan that’s not in your base currency, we’ll automatically show you converted values in plan level reports as well as on your dashboard so you can more easily understand how your plans are performing.
Read more about currency conversions in Paythen.
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06 November 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Plan-level reports for Subscriptions & Once-off
Till now, plan level reports were only available for the Pay your way and Payment plan product types. Now you can get the key insights you need for all 4 plan types in Paythen. The reports are available for all existing and new plans you create. Quickly see the key metrics for your plans as well as a pre-filtered view showing customers on the plan for easier administration.
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09 November 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Page views & conversion rates in plan reports
You can now see unique page views for each of your plans via the plan report. We also use the page view count to calculate the conversion rate from view to paying customers/purchases. For payment plans, we also show you the revenue per page view as a guide. This gives you more insight into how your plans are performing over time.
Read more detail and understand how these metrics are calculated here.
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30 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Custom fields sent as metadata to Stripe
We’ve improved the metadata we send to your Stripe account. For any plans with custom fields, when a customer signs up, we now include their answers as metadata in the customer and subscription records in your Stripe account. This is useful if you have or want to set up integrations with your Stripe data. Eg: From your Stripe account to your CRM system for example. Read more here.
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15 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Show/hide old Stripe customers in Paythen
Got a lot of old customers in your Stripe account? They are now hidden by default in your Paythen dashboard – this increases load times as well as makes the customers page visually less cluttered for you. Need to see old customers? Easy, just toggle them on via your dashboard.
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02 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Archive plans to prevent new sign-ups
Sometimes you want to prevent new sign ups to a plan or subscription that already has other customers signed up. Maybe you’re full up or just need to temporarily pause sign ups. This is now just one click away with Paythen.
Want to re-open it? Easily done. You can archive plans in Paythen which has no impact on existing customers and reports, while preventing new sign ups. Potential customers that go to the payment page for an archived plan are instead shown a simple page like this with your support email.
If you re-activate a plan, the payment page becomes visible again immediately. Read more about archiving here.
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24 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Let customers self-cancel their subscription
Till now, your customers could not cancel their own subscriptions or payment plans in Paythen. This meant they had to reach out to you, and you had to manually cancel their subscription for them. If you have a large customer base, this can add up to dozens of hours a week.
With self-cancellation now optional on all subscriptions, payment plans and pay your way plans, you can now let your customers cancel their own plans 24 x 7 without having to reach out to you.
This is completely optional and controlled at a plan-level. If you’d prefer to manage cancellations, leave this option off when creating or editing a plan. Read more about how to enable this option here.
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23 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Invisible custom fields & url parameters
You can now pre-fill all the fields in your payment pages using url parameters. This includes “invisible” custom fields on your payment pages. This makes it more powerful and seamless to send customers to the Paythen payment page from another system or form, with their info already pre-filled. It also makes it easier to track marketing sources and campaigns by passing these values to invisible fields on your payment pages via url parameters.
Read more about using url parameters here, and custom fields here.
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19 October 2020LINK COPIED TO CLIPBOARD
Custom fields make your payment pages more flexible
Instead of being restricted to the default fields in your Paythen payment pages, you can now ask for any additional info you need from customers with seamlessly integrated custom fields. Custom fields add much more flexibility to how you can use Paythen. Combined with url parameters and the ability to make custom fields invisible, you get powerful tracking and pre-filling functionality that makes using Paythen even better.
Just switch on the custom fields toggle in your plan creation screen to start. Read more about using custom fields here.
Key features
Paythen is designed to improve your customer payment experience and conversions while giving you powerful and simple features to understand and improve your business. Here are some of the key features, but the best way to see if it works for you is to try it with a free 14 day trial.
Easy payment plans
Offer your customers a buy now, pay later option set by you, to increase conversions and sales.
No-code, no-fuss setup
Once you connect your Stripe account, it takes under a minute to get started using Paythen.
Four payment types
Offer subscriptions, payment plans, once-off payments or an option between payment plans & once-off.
Easy payment links
An easy to share payment link that works on any website and any device - matching your brand.
Flexible discount codes
Offer seasonal discounts & promotions with flexible discount codes that work on all plan types.
Integrate with other apps
Send Paythen data to over 3,000 other apps with our Zapier integration.
Automated reminders & emails
We automatically send handy reminders before payments & follow-ups if a payment fails.
Encourage early repayments
Offer customers on a payment plan an easy way to repay early at any time – increasing your cashflow.
Payment plans or subscriptions
End charges after a set number of payments or continue indefinitely. Choose what works for you
Change payment info easily
Your customers can change their card info anytime they want, with zero time spent by your team.
Customer summaries
Your customers want to know what they’ve paid, and how much they owe. Now they can.
Payment receipts
Reduce support time spent sending customers copies of their receipts. All receipts available to them 24 x 7.
Get powerful, simple insights
Useful, easy to understand reports at the company, product and customer level.
Custom branding
Easily change the colors and logos shown on customer facing pages and some emails.
Flexible billing intervals & more
Choose any billing interval you can think of, add a setup fee, trial period and lots more for each product.
We get paid when you do
With our simple, low 1.4% fee, we only get paid when you do. No fixed or hidden fees. No fees during your free trial either.
Many payment methods
Let your customers pay with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay, plus region-specific cards like Discover & UnionPay.
We’re getting better every day
With regular updates based on your feedback, Paythen constantly gets better and more useful for you and your customers.
Not a customer yet?
Try it free for 14 days.
We’ll ask you to connect your Stripe account or create a new one once you sign up. Paythen works with Stripe.