Settings → Payment providers (in the Store group of the business app's settings) decides where your online store's payments go. Every provider is the business's own account: the money goes straight to it, and each provider charges its own fees. ContentForge adds no fee.
The four providers
- Stripe: the same account the business's bookings and invoices already use. Nothing new to connect. It's managed in Calendars & booking → Payments, and Open Stripe takes you to it.
- PayPal: press Connect PayPal, then sign up for PayPal or log in, and allow access. If PayPal still needs something (for example, confirming your email address), the card says so. Fix it in PayPal, then press Check again.
- Square: press Connect Square, log in to Square and approve. Payments go to your main Square location.
- Authorize.net: press Connect Authorize.net. The account owner logs in to Authorize.net and approves.
You never paste API keys. Each provider's own sign-in does the connecting.
One provider takes cards
Cards go through one provider at a time: Stripe, Square or Authorize.net. That keeps refunds and disputes in one place. Pick it under Card payments (a provider has to be connected first). PayPal sits next to your card provider: shoppers see PayPal's buttons as well as the card form.
Apple Pay and Google Pay come from your card provider.
Ways to pay, with their fees
Each connected provider lists its ways to pay, each with a switch and the provider's published US fee (October 2026; your account's own rate can differ):
Stripe: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Klarna, Afterpay / Clearpay, Affirm.
PayPal: PayPal, Pay Later (Pay in 4 and Pay Monthly), Venmo (US phones).
Square: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Afterpay / Clearpay, Cash App Pay (US).
Authorize.net: cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay.
Pay-later options (Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, Pay Later) only show at checkout when the order total is in the provider's range and the shopper's country is supported. For example, Affirm is for orders over $50. The shopper sees plain terms such as "4 interest-free payments of $26.07".
Show messages on product pages: Afterpay and Pay Later can show a "4 payments of…" line on product pages and in the cart. It's a separate tick box.
A method the provider hasn't turned on for your account yet shows as Not on for this account yet. Turn it on in the provider's own dashboard, then press Check again.
Apple Pay works on each of your store's web addresses once it's registered with your card provider. The Apple Pay row lists them.
Order at checkout
Drag the chips (or use the arrow buttons) to set the order the ways to pay appear in at checkout. Express buttons (Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo) show at the top.
Card details stay with the provider
Shoppers type card details only into the provider's own secure fields, never into your site. Your site, the business app and ContentForge never see a card number.
Disconnecting
Disconnect on PayPal, Square or Authorize.net stops store payments through it right away. Past orders keep their payments, and refunds for them need the account connected again. Stripe can't be disconnected here because bookings and invoices share it.
Good to know
- Invoices and bookings still take payments through Stripe for now.
- While the store runs in test mode, the screen shows Test mode and every provider uses its sandbox. No real money moves.