A WordPress order form is a form that website operators give the customers to use in ordering a company's products. The order form usually appears at the bottom of the sale page in the WordPress field editor.
To create a WordPress order form easily, you need to use WordPress forms plugins that act as the best creator due to its beginner-friendly drop and drag buttons. With WPforms, one can manage to place the payment modes on the order form such as PayPal, Net, etc.
One can also create a WordPress order form without payment information, enabling customers to order for your products but pay for them later.
How to add an order form in WordPress
1. The first step is to download, install, and turn on WordPress plugin forms on the WordPress website.
After turning it on, go to WPforms and click on the 'Add New' to generate a new form. This will make the set-up page open with various templates. Click on the order form, also known as the billing, as shown below;
One can use the drag and drop form editor to customize different fields on the form easily. You can always choose many field options and change the available items depending on the website owner's choice.
2. Configuration of the settings on the order form
To configure your order form settings, tap on the settings page to open general settings. It would help if you customized the name and description of the form, the anti-spam options, and the submit button label, as shown in the diagram below.
One can add default notification on the settings where notifications will be sent to the website admins emails or website users after submitting their order forms. You should name your notification, whether default or new, by clicking on the ' Add new notification.'
Ensure to confirm if it is working on your WordPress form using URLs, messages, or show page. Also, don't forget to save all these by tapping on the save button.
3. Configuration of the payment settings
To configure your payment settings, tap on the payment page. There are payment modes like Stripe and PayPal in WPForms that you have to download, install, and activate before using them. It will enable you to place the payment modes on your order form. You should save this page by clicking on the top save button.
4. Adding the order form to the WordPress site
Since WPForms enhances the addition of order form in different places on your site, you should use the WordPress forms widget in the edit screen to add the order form in WordPress.After adding the WPForms widget, choose the order form you created earlier and make a preview on the order for live to see if it is working.
Conclusion
The above step allows you to easily add a WordPress order form to your website, especially for those who would like to accept online payment of the products.
