Collect Payments and Donations in Sparkforge Forms

The Payment element in Sparkforge forms collects donations and user-defined amounts directly inside a form. You'll find it under Integrations in the form builder element panel.

What it can do

• Collect donations with suggested or custom amounts.
• Run recurring contributions on a weekly, monthly, or yearly cycle.
• Sell products with manual payment methods like cash or bank transfer.
• Track every transaction in the unified Payments dashboard.

Supported payment types

• Online — Stripe, Authorize.net, or NMI through your connected gateway.
• Manual — Cash on Delivery (COD) or custom methods like bank transfer or check.

Donation amount options

Suggested amounts

• Add up to 15 suggested amounts.
• Pick a currency from the dropdown.
• Enable Other Amount for flexibility.
• Customize the label that displays when a donor selects an amount.
• Styling matches your form's theme automatically.

User-defined amount

If you don't add suggested amounts, the user-defined option turns on automatically. Donors enter any amount, and you can include a placeholder to guide them.

Recurring donations

1. Add the Custom Amount element.
2. Toggle on Recurring Payment.
3. Pick the billing frequencies you want to offer (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly).

Donors choose an amount and frequency, subscribe once, and payments recur automatically.

Set up manual payments

1. Go to Payments → Integrations → Manual Payment Methods.
2. Enable Cash on Delivery or Custom Payment Methods.
3. Configure the description and post-purchase message.
4. Make sure manual options are enabled for forms and surveys.

When a product is added to a form or survey, the manual option appears automatically in payment selection.

Order processing

• A submitted form with manual payment shows under Payments → Orders as Pending.
• Mark the order Paid and choose the mode (cash, card, check, bank transfer).
• The status syncs back to Form Submissions.

Tracking and notifications

• Payment details appear directly in form submission data.
• Full transaction history lives under Payments → Transactions.
• Export transactions whenever you need.
• Enable autoresponders and email notifications so both you and the customer see amount and status in real time.

Important notes

• NMI and Authorize.net require First Name as a mandatory field.
• Refunds are not supported through the Payment element.
• The legacy API-based Stripe Connect method is no longer supported.
• Calendars using custom form payments will not display the Payment element.
• Multi-payments across multiple forms in a funnel are not supported yet.
• Undo/Redo is not available with the Payment element.