MerchantsPayment links
Create a payment link
Create a payment link for a new product or an existing price, choose its email, after-payment, end date and limit options, then share it.
You create a payment link in a drawer on the Payment links page: pick what it sells, choose a few options, and the dashboard opens the new link with its address ready to copy. What it sells is fixed for the link's life; the options can be changed later.
Before you start
- Your account is approved. Before approval, New link opens the approval dialog instead.
- To sell a price you already have, it is active and its product is active, under Products. See Products and prices. Otherwise the drawer makes a new product for you.
- Your support email is set, in Settings → "Checkout" → "Support email". Payers see it at the foot of the link's page, and a closed link offers it to them.
Steps
Open the drawer
In the sidebar, under Payments, click Payment links, then New link. A drawer titled "New link" opens.
Choose what the link sells
The drawer has three parts: "Product", "Checkout" and "Limits (optional)". "Product" starts with a switch between "New product" and "Existing price".
With "New product", describe the product in three fields:
- "Product name" ("What are you selling?"), at most 120 characters;
- "Amount", in USDC: from 0.01 to 1,000,000, with at most 6 decimals;
- "Charge": "One-off" for a single payment, or the second choice for a subscription that renews every 30 days.
The dashboard then creates the product and its price first, so they also appear under Products, and makes the link for that price.
With "Existing price", the drawer shows only "Price": a list of each active price of an active product, with its amount and how often it charges. Pick one; Create link with nothing picked asks you to "Pick a price." A price that renews every 365 days can be linked only this way.
Ask for an email, if you want to
Under "Checkout", "Ask for email" has three choices, each with a line that says what the payer sees: "Don’t ask" (the default), "Ask, optional" and "Ask, required". With "Ask, required", the payer can't go on without typing one. The email becomes the checkout's customer email.
"Don’t ask" means only that the link's page shows no email field: the checkout page still offers its own optional email field. Fianto does not check that an email belongs to the payer.
Send payers somewhere after paying, if you want to
"After payment, send them to" takes an address of yours. It must start with https://, be at most
2,048 characters, contain no user name, password or spaces, and not be a Fianto checkout page.
The field is there for one-time payments only. After a one-time payment, the receipt on the checkout page shows a Continue to button with your business name, and it opens this address; with no address set there is no such button. A subscription's receipt never has it: it shows "Manage your subscription" instead. So when the link sells a subscription, the drawer shows a note in place of the field: "Subscribers stay on their receipt after paying. It has no Continue button, so there is no address to send them to."
Set an end date, if you want to
Under "Limits (optional)", tick "Ends on a date" to show a date and time field. It reads the time in the dashboard's time zone, which the hint under the field names, for example "In UTC (Settings → Times and dates)." Choose the zone in Settings under Times and dates. The date must be more than one minute and at most five years from now. From that moment the link reads Ended.
Untick the box, or leave the field empty, and the link has no end date.
Set a payment limit, if you want to
Tick "Ends when full" to show a number field. Type a whole number from 1 to 10,000: the number of paid payments after which the link reads Full. Visits, clicks and checkouts nobody paid are not counted. Untick the box, or leave the field empty, and the link has no limit. See Limits for the place a payer holds while paying.
Create and share
Click Create link. If something needs fixing, the drawer says so beside the field and keeps everything you chose, ticked boxes included. Otherwise the dashboard opens the link's page, with its address under the product name and a Copy link button. Copy the address and share it wherever your payers are. The same Copy link button is on every row of the Payment links list.
Check it worked
The link's page shows the product name, the status Open and the address,
https://checkout.fianto.xyz/l/ followed by 16 characters. Open the address in a private window: it
shows your product, the price and the pay button.
Troubleshooting
| You see | Why | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| "This price or its product has ended. Make a new link with an active price." | The price you picked, or its product, was ended. | Pick an active price, or make a new product. |
| "This price is not one of yours." | The price is not on your account. | Reload the page and pick a price from the list. |
| "Use a link that starts with https:// and is not a Fianto checkout page." | The after-payment address is not https, holds a user name, password or spaces, or points at the checkout page. | Use an https address of your own. |
| "Pick an end date between one minute and five years from now." | The end date is too close or too far. | Pick a later or an earlier date, or clear it. |
| "Finish the date or clear it." | The end date is only partly typed. | Fill in the whole date and time, or clear the field. |
| "A whole number from 1 to 10,000" | The payment limit is not a whole number in range. | Type a whole number, or leave it empty. |
| "You have reached the number of payment links you can keep. Close one before you create another." | You have 1,000 links that are not closed, or 10,000 in all. | Close a link you no longer use. |
| "Pick a price." | You chose "Existing price" but picked none. | Pick a price from the list, or switch to "New product". |
| "The product was created, but the link wasn’t. It’s now picked under Existing price: create the link again." | The new product and its price were saved, but the link was refused. | The drawer has switched to "Existing price" with the new price picked: fix what it points out, then click Create link again. |
| "The product was created, but the link wasn’t, and its price couldn’t be picked for you." | The new product was saved, but the link was refused and the dashboard could not pick its price. | Pick the new price under "Existing price" and create the link again. |
See also
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Payment links
A reusable link that sells one price of one product from Fianto's checkout. When to use one, how a sale works, its statuses and its limits.
Manage your payment links
Find your payment links, change their settings, close and reopen them, see each link's payments, and find link payments in Orders and Payments.