Square for payments with Booked plugin (Wordpress)

[commdoor]

I want to use Square to accept credit card payments once people have booked an appointment. I have Booked (WordPress plugin) all set up and good to go. I am not going to be creating any “store” at all. Only selling Personal Trainer sessions. See here if needed - 1:1 In-Person Training for Boomers - Martin County Fitness

Can I use Square directly with Booked or integrate Square with it? I don’t want to use any more WordPress plugins…but I do indeed want to keep the Booked plugin. Thanks!

[Minion · Accepted solution]

Hi @commdoor 

I was just checking over your site.  I'm a WordPress user as well.  I have never heard of the Booked plugin so I wanted to check it out. 

IF you want to take payments directly on your WordPress site, you may need to install Woo-commerce, and install and SSL Certificate, given that payment information would be exchanged.

I'm not sure if creating  a payment link via Square, will work but that may be worth taking a look into if you are not looking to add more to your site.

[commdoor]

Hi Dan. Thanks for your reply! Sounds like the "payment link" may be what I'm looking for. I'll give that a try in a bit.

I already have several WP plugins and to make this work with Woo Commerce would require 2 or 3 more Woo plugins. Trying to keep my site loading as fast as possible so to avoid adding multiple plugins (and the monthly fee that comes with Woo), I wanted to avoid that - if possible.

I do realize I can simply email customers an invoice or, via the virtual terminal, I can send them a payment link or just manually enter their card info in. If the payment link doesn't work well for me, I'll just use one of those methods. Thanks again. 

[Minion]

Not a problem! Completely agree with trying to keep plugins to a minimal as well.  One of my biggest pet peeves is going to a site that doesn't load up properly or takes forever to load up.  Check out this site also.  I know there are some paid plugins he mentions ( i use a few) , but some good info all around  I've used for my site to get my gtmetrix and google page speed in the 90-100 range. 

But hopefully that works for you, best of luck.