Can ChronoForms link up with payment systems like PayPal or others?

itchibahn 02 Nov, 2023
I need to create a membership form with few membership levels, once filled need to take payment. Can Chronoforms link up with payment gateways such as PayPal or others?
Max_admin 03 Nov, 2023
it can, what we had in v7 is Mollie and Stripe

PayPal has not been integrated for a while, do you want to use PayPal paynow buttons ?

The problem is about receiving the payment update from PayPal, in order to save the order as "complete", this is complex and you better use an ecommerce solution for it
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nlheath 10 Oct, 2025

I would really like to see an option in Chronoforms 7 and 8 to use Paypal.  I am converting all my CF5 forms on my Joomla 3 site to CF7, in preparation for an upgrade of the site to Joomla 5.  My site is for a small membership organization, and our CF5 membership and meeting registration forms all accept payments only using Paypal.  To have to convert not only the forms but our treasurer and our membership to a new payment processor would make our transition to Joomla 5 even more complicated.  If there's any way that the integration options for Paypal in CF5 could be made available in the newer versions, my membership and I would be most grateful!

Max_admin 11 Oct, 2025

Hi nlhealth

Which actions do you use in v5 for doing the PayPal payment ? PayPal Redirect only or also the PayPal Listener ?

And do they currently work ?

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nlheath 11 Oct, 2025

I use both, and they work very well.

Max_admin 23 Oct, 2025

Hi nlheath

Great, I will try to add the PayPal actions to ChronoForms v8 as soon as possible.

I will post here when this is done so that you can help us with the testing.

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nlheath 23 Oct, 2025

Thank you so much - that's great news!  Sorry to press this, but would it be possible for you to add the actions to CF7 as well?  I am trying to update all my CF5 forms to CF7 in preparation for upgrading to Joomla 5, since I can't update to CF8 until the upgrade is complete.

Max_admin 15d ago

Hi nlheath

PayPal Redirect has been added to the latest v8 update, I'm afraid that adding new features to v7 now will not be as easy

But v8 has a v7 forms importer, and they can work on the same website, so you can import the PayPal forms only to v8

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nlheath 15d ago

Thanks for adding it to V8.  Does it also include a Paypal listener?

Max_admin 15d ago

No, the listener is not yet added, but if you can test the PayPal Redirect and confirm that it works in your scenario then the listener can follow in the next update.

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