Your customers are ready to pay. Make sure your website can take their money.

Default Stripe offers major cards, native subscriptions, and the cleanest setup. Existing Square retailers gain one online/offline dashboard and easier bookkeeping. Add PayPal alongside Stripe when customers expect it.

Authorize.net/Braintree are available but more complex/slower to configure. We'll select the fit before work. Get in touch →

Integrating Stripe, Square, or PayPal runs $700–$1,200. A simple checkout (one service/price, card form, receipt) sits near $700; package selectors and deposits/balances land mid-range; recurring billing/subscriptions with self-service push toward $1,200.

On a new build, payments are the same $700–$1,200 line item added to the site price; multi-page sites run $2,800–$5,000 before payments. See full pricing →

Cards go directly from browsers to Stripe/your processor, never through your site. A detail-free reference token returns; your server uses it to charge.

This means even if someone got into your server, there's no card data to find there. The payment processor holds the actual card data in their own secured systems. This isn't a bonus feature. It's how the integration is built from the start.

Complete payment flow and records: checkout form/button, off-server card handling, backend charge processing, verified success before receipts, branded customer email, business notification, and clear success page.

For subscription billing, it also covers setting up the recurring charge schedule, handling failed renewals, and giving customers a way to update their payment method or cancel. Everything gets fully tested in a test environment before going live with real customers.

Success-page URLs can be visited unpaid. Instead, a processor's immediate secure success message reaches your site, which verifies authenticity before any action.

Verified messages alone trigger receipts, paid orders, subscription activation, or other access. This prevents unpaid success-page visitors gaining benefits. Tested verification is standard in every integration.

Yes. Adding payments to an existing site is a very common standalone request. Your existing pages stay as-is; the payment form, checkout flow, and confirmation emails are built on top. You don't need a new website to get a working checkout.

Straightforward PHP usually takes one week. WordPress takes longer: payment code must remain separate from plugins to survive updates. Send your URL if unsure; I'll assess before quoting.

Yes: photographers, contractors, event planners, and consultants commonly collect booking deposits then balances. Stripe securely saves cards, off your server, so clients needn't re-enter details later.

Collect balances manually through admin or automatically on a set date. Each payment gets a receipt stating paid and remaining amounts.

One signup card supports weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual automatic billing. Failed renewals from expired/replaced cards trigger configured retries and update-request emails.

Customers cancel/change payment methods on your site without contacting you. Multiple tiers support upgrades/downgrades with automatic billing adjustments after setup. Subscriptions are part of the payments integration range ($700–$1,200), usually toward the top.

Specific decline, expiry, or insufficient-funds messages replace vague failures. Customers correct details and retry in place without restarting.

Failed renewals trigger retries, card-update emails, and a grace period before pausing. Specific errors recover otherwise-lost sales.

Stripe automatically offers Apple Pay in iPhone/Mac Safari with Apple Wallet cards; Google Pay in Chrome/Android with saved cards. Single taps/Face ID replace card entry, dramatically reducing mobile abandonment.

Setting this up requires a small verification file placed on your server (Stripe provides it; setup takes a few minutes) and secure HTTPS on your domain. These payment options are Stripe-specific and don't work the same way with Square or Authorize.net.

In Stripe/processor dashboards, find payment, click refund, choose full/partial. Your site emails confirmation and updates records. Card refunds appear within 5–10 business days; card-network timing cannot be accelerated.

If you want to trigger refunds from your own website instead of logging into Stripe, that can be built as a custom admin panel and quoted separately. Most small service businesses don't need this feature.

Card networks impose strict security requirements. Stripe, Square, and PayPal bear most responsibility because your site never stores, processes, or transmits cards, avoiding the riskiest compliance obligations.

What does apply is standard security practice: keeping your site software updated, using secure HTTPS for your domain, and not storing sensitive information you don't need. The integration accounts for all of this from the start.

Stripe, Square, and Authorize.net differ, so switching rewrites payment logic rather than configuration. Forms, success pages, and email templates remain. Separating payment code makes future changes straightforward.

If you're using subscriptions or deposit flows with saved customer cards, switching also involves moving those customer records. Choosing the right processor from the start is the better path, and that's part of what gets figured out before any work begins.

A simple single-service checkout added to an existing site: about one week from start to go-live, including full sandbox testing. A multi-option package selector: one to two weeks. Deposit plus balance: one to two weeks. Subscription billing with customer self-service: two to three weeks.

Timelines include success, decline, failed-webhook, receipt-delivery, and renewal-simulation tests. Reviewing your site/payment model establishes realistic timing. Development starts only after defining the full flow, avoiding mid-build surprises.