Order Forms and Donation Forms

How are online order forms useful?

Order forms: An order form can be used to place orders for the goods on sale. The simplest usage of a payment form is to use it as an online order form. This order form is where the customers will place their orders for the goods that you are offering for sale. You can create different types of order forms such as purchase order forms, work order forms. Let us consider the example of a t-shirt order form. The customers will have to place their orders using the order form that you have built. The customers will then be taken to PayPal's website where they can pay for their orders using their PayPal account or credit card. A successful transaction is duly recorded in your application.

Registration forms: Another version of an order form is the registration form. Everyday we come across a wide online application forms used for registrations and enrollments. You can create such registration forms and application forms using Zoho Creator. Registration forms for meetings, conferences and application forms for training sessions which require a registration fee can be created. Once the clients have registered, the can pay for their registration using their paypal account or credit card.

Donation forms: You can also collect donations for their charity or nonprofit organizations using payment forms. A donation form is different from an order form in one aspect. You don't have to offer anything for sale. You simply have to put up your cause or detail your organization's activities and embed the donation form that you created using Zoho Creator on your website. Visitors to your website, who are inspired by your cause and wish to donate can simply enter their detail and proceed to donate using their PayPal account or credit card .

Recurring payments: In some cases, it makes sense to collect recurring payments or donations rather than collecting a onetime payment using an order form. Like when you are using subscription forms to collect subscriptions for your magazine or newsletter, or even when you are collecting donations on a monthly basis rather than collecting it in one go, you can use the recurring payments feature of the payment form in Zoho Creator. At the interval specified by the user, the amount can be collected through the user's paypal account or credit card.

Business rules in payment forms: Like regular forms, you can also use business rules and workflow for your order forms and donation forms. For bulk orders placed using your order form, you can use Deluge Script to offer discounts. Since you will be collecting a shipping address in your order form, you can also send gifts or goodies in addition to the order that has been placed. Using the Zoho Creator Zoho Invoice integration, you can also send out invoices to the purchase orders once the user has placed his order and paid for it.