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Stripe Payment Links and Buy Buttons in a Softr app.

Nobody has walked these steps against a real Softr setup yet. They are built from the provider's documentation, listed at the bottom of this page.

What it gives you

  • Sales through your payment links, Buy Buttons and Pricing Tables are credited to the partner whose link brought the buyer.
  • Each payment arrives signed from Stripe, and a refund takes the commission back by itself.

What it does not

  • Custom code needs Softr's Basic plan or above.
  • Softr's own Stripe checkout, and its Pricing and Checkout blocks, go to Stripe without a payment link. Those sales are not credited this way.
  • Only the most recent referral code a visitor arrived with travels to Stripe. If it is nobody's (a link of your own that uses the same parameter, say), the sale is credited to nobody, even when a partner's link brought them earlier.
  • Which of a partner's links was clicked, and any sub-IDs, are not recorded on these sales.
  • A payment link for a subscription is not credited from the link. Stripe puts the code on the checkout, Refficks counts a subscription's invoices, and the invoices do not carry it. Such a sale is credited only when Refficks knows the buyer another way: they signed up on your site first, or used the partner's discount code.
  • A visitor who has not accepted cookies on your site, or whose browser sends Global Privacy Control, carries nothing to Stripe. Their sale can still be credited through the partner's discount code.
  • Only links a visitor clicks are carried. A button whose own script sends the visitor to Stripe is not.

Steps

These are the steps as they read inside Refficks. Where one says “below”, it means this guide's page in Refficks, where your own script, addresses and checks are.

  1. 1. Put the Refficks script on every page

    In Softr, open Settings → Custom Code, paste the snippet into the header, and save.

    Publish the app.

    Your copy of the Refficks script, with your own key in it, is on the Integrations page in Refficks.

  2. 2. Use your payment links as Stripe gives them to you

    Put the buy.stripe.com link on an ordinary link or button, or paste Stripe's Buy Button or Pricing Table embed code unchanged.

    Give a button the buy.stripe.com address as its link.

    For Stripe's Buy Button or Pricing Table, add a Custom code block and paste Stripe's code into it.

    When a visitor clicks, the script adds the referral code they arrived with as client_reference_id. Stripe hands it back with the payment, and the sale is credited to that partner.

    A partner's link can also point straight at a payment link, with no page of yours in between: under Tracking, give the link the buy.stripe.com address as its destination. Refficks adds that partner's code as the visitor is sent on, so the script is not needed for that sale.

    A link or embed that already sets client_reference_id is left exactly as you wrote it.

  3. 3. Connect Stripe

    Payments reach Refficks through your Stripe connection, like every other Stripe sale. If it is not connected yet, connect it on the Stripe page.

  4. 4. Make a test purchase

    Softr runs header code once, on the first page a visitor opens, and the script keeps working as they move between pages. Softr's Preview shows custom code before you publish.

    Open your site through any partner's link, copied from their page under Partners, click a payment link, and pay in Stripe's test mode. The checks on this guide in Refficks turn green as each part is seen. The partner is not credited: a test payment is never counted as a sale.

Sources

Have an account? Open this guide in Refficks for your own script and the checks that show when it is working. New to Refficks? Create an account.

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