Payment links

A payment link lets anyone pay you online for a product, a service or a small package — a gym membership, a consultation, a bundle at a promo price — without a quote or an invoice being sent first. You share the link (or its QR code); the buyer fills in their details and pays by card, Apple Pay / Google Pay or PayPal; and only once the money is confirmed does Bizinly create the customer, issue the invoice, record the payment and e-mail the invoice to the buyer. A visit that never pays leaves nothing behind in your books.

Payment links is an optional feature — ask us to switch it on for your workspace. It needs Stripe and/or PayPal connected. When it's off, the Share link button and the Payment links page are hidden and every link reads "no longer active"; switching it back on brings them all back.

Share link on a product

Every product or service has one link of its own, shared the way you share an invoice:

1. Open Products and press Share link — in the product's side panel header, on the product page, or in the dark selection bar with exactly one product selected.
2. The first press creates the product's link and copies it; every later press shows the same link (a green dot means it has been shared before).
3. From the card: Copy, Open link, QR code (download PNG or SVG, or print a sheet to put up at your counter) and E-mail.

This link always sells one unit at the product's current retail price — change the price and the link follows; a payment that has already started keeps its amount. Prices are before VAT, like everywhere in Bizinly; the buyer sees the price including VAT. Share link is refused, with a message, for a product that's switched off, archived or has no retail price.

Links with several lines, discounts and limits

For anything more than one product at its normal price, open Payment links in the menu and press + New link:

1. Give it a label — what the buyer sees as the heading, for example "Gym membership — monthly".
2. Add lines as on an invoice: the product or service, the quantity (decimals are fine, e.g. 1.5 hours), the price before VAT (the product's own by default) and, if you like, a discount %. VAT comes from each product. The dialog shows the subtotal, VAT and total the buyer will pay.
3. Under More options: let the buyer choose the quantity (for a link with a single line), set an expiry date, or limit the number of payments.

One link sells everything on it; to sell something else, make another link. You can edit a link later — if it already has payments you're warned, because changes apply to new payments only and invoices already made stay exactly as they were.

The Payment links page lists every link — the products' own links carry a Main badge — with its views, payments and revenue. Switch off stops a link (its page then says "no longer active"); switch it on again whenever you like. Links are never deleted, so their history stays.

What the buyer sees

The link opens a page with your logo and company name, the product (or the label and its lines), the price including VAT and the total. The buyer enters their e-mail and name — and, if they need an invoice for a company, the company name, tax number and address — then pays with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or PayPal, whichever you have connected.

A returning buyer doesn't have to type everything again: on the same device the form is filled in for them, and on another device "I've bought before" sends a one-time code to their e-mail that fills it in. Nobody's details are ever shown just because someone knows an e-mail address.

After the payment

As soon as the payment provider confirms the money:

• the buyer becomes a customer — or an existing one is reused (by company tax number, or by e-mail with a matching name); existing customer details are never overwritten;
• an invoice is created with exactly the lines and prices that were paid, issued through the normal numbering, marked Paid with the payment recorded (method Stripe or PayPal, with the provider's reference), and its source shows as Payment link;
• the invoice is e-mailed to the buyer, and your team is notified of the payment;
• stock goes down like any sale when inventory tracks the product.

If the buyer closes the tab right after paying, nothing is lost: Bizinly also hears from the provider's webhook and re-checks unfinished payments every hour, and it never makes a second invoice for the same payment.

Good to know

• Payment links take card, Apple Pay / Google Pay and PayPal; bank transfer isn't offered on a link, because the invoice is only made once the money has arrived.
• The price, VAT and quantity limits are always taken from your workspace, never from the page — a buyer can't change what they pay.
• A link is a fixed package set by you; for a shop where the buyer fills their own basket, see the Shop plugin in Plugins.

Related: Online payments, Set up Stripe, Set up PayPal, The Products list.