Wix Pay Links: Creating and Managing Pay Links

Pay links are unique URLs that you send to customers, allowing them to make convenient online payments for your goods and services. Share pay links via email, social media, QR code, or any other channel. Payments made via your pay links appear in your Wix account like all other transactions through your site.

You can send pay links to single or multiple recipients, allowing you to easily coordinate group activities, social event collections, and more.

A screenshot showing the available sharing options for your catalog item pay link.

Before you begin:

You need to publish and upgrade your site so you can accept online payments and use pay links. If your plan expires, your active pay links will be on hold.
In order to accept payments, you must also set up a payment method. If you've already set up a payment method for Wix Stores, Wix Bookings or Wix Events, you do not need to set one up again.

Creating a custom amount pay link

Custom amount pay links allow you to request payment for any purpose, whether it's a special service you provide or a custom physical good. Add a description and image to the pay link, choose the expiration date, number of payments and set the tax.

Each pay link you send creates an order that you can manage from the Orders tab in the site dashboard.

To create a custom amount a pay link:

Dashboard

Wix app

Wix Studio app

Go to Pay Links in your site's dashboard.
Click Create Link.
Select Custom amount, then click Next.
Enter the Link name and Price.
Click the Tax drop-down and select the relevant option.
Tip: Learn more about tax collection with pay links.
(Optional) Enter a Description, and add an Item image that will appear in the summary area on checkout.
Click + Open settings.
Enable the relevant toggles:
- Set an expiration date: Enable the toggle to define how long the pay link will be active and select the relevant expiration date. Once it expires, payments will stop.
- Limit the number of payments: Enable the toggle to set how many payments you want to receive via this link. Then enter the number of payments for the pay link.
  Tip: If you don’t enable this toggle, there’s no limit to how many payments you can receive, as long as the pay link is still active.
- Mark as shippable order: Enable the toggle when sending physical goods. Shipping methods and rates can be defined in settings.
Click Create Pay Link.
Choose what you want to do:
- Copy Link: Copy the link to your clipboard.
- Send via email: Select a contact using the Select a customer drop-down and click Send Link to send your pay link to this contact.
  Note: Click + Add Contact in the drop-down to create a new contact to send your pay link to.
- QR Code: Click to generate a QR code. Customers can scan this code to access your pay link.
- HTML embed: Add pay link widget to your site by copying the HTML code.
- Facebook: Click Share to share your link via Facebook.
- LinkedIn: Click Share to share your link via LinkedIn.
- Twitter: Click Share to share your link via Twitter.
Click Done.

A screenshot showing the options available for sharing your new pay link.

Creating a catalog item pay link

Catalog item pay links are a great way to request direct payment for physical goods you sell on your site (i.e. catalog). Choose the expiration date, number of payments, and then share the link using your preferred method.

Each pay link you send creates an order that you can manage from the Orders tab in the site dashboard.

Note:

Tax, shipping, discounts and other factors are calculated at checkout and may affect the final price.

To create a catalog item pay link:

Dashboard

Wix app

Wix Studio app

Go to Pay Links in your site's dashboard.
Click Create Link.
Select Catalog item and click Next.
Select the item you want to sell and click Add Item.
Note: Products with an assigned fulfiller don't appear in the catalog item picker. To use one of these products in a pay link, either remove the fulfiller assignment from the product, or create a custom amount pay link instead.
(Optional) Adjust any of the following:
- Price: Enter the amount you want to charge for each item.
- Quantity: Select the number of items you want to sell with this pay link.
- Description: Add more details about the item or service.
Click + Open settings.
Enable the relevant toggles:
- Set an expiration date: Enable the toggle to define how long the pay link will be active and select the relevant expiration date. Once it expires, payments will stop.
- Limit the number of payments: Enable the toggle to set how many payments you want to receive via this link. Then enter the number of payments for the pay link.
  Tip: If you don’t enable this toggle, there’s no limit to how many payments you can receive, as long as the pay link is still active.
- Mark as shippable order: Enable the toggle when sending physical goods. Shipping methods and rates can be defined in settings.
Click Create Pay Link.
Choose what you want to do:
- Copy Link: Copy the link to your clipboard.
- Send via email: Select a contact using the Select a customer drop-down and click Send Link to send your pay link to this contact. Note: Click + Add Contact in the drop-down to create a new contact to send your pay link to.
- QR Code: Click to generate a QR code. Customers can scan this code to access your pay link.
- HTML embed: Add pay link widget to your site by copying the HTML code.
- Facebook: Click Share to share your link via Facebook.
- LinkedIn: Click Share to share your link via LinkedIn.
- Twitter: Click Share to share your link via Twitter.
Click Done.

Managing your pay links

All of the pay links you create will be listed on the Pay Links page in your site's dashboard. The actions you can take for each link will depend on the link's type and status.

What's the difference between the pay link statuses?

A screenshot of the Status column on the Pay Links page.

To manage your pay links:

Dashboard

Wix app

Wix Studio app

Go to Pay Links in your site's dashboard.
Click a pay link to view further information in a panel on the right.
Choose what you want to do:
- Copy Link: Copy this pay link URL to your clipboard.
- Share: Send via email, QR code, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
- Activate: Make an inactive link active.
- Open link: Click the More Actions icon and select Open link to view an active pay link.
- Duplicate: Create a copy of an existing pay link:
  1. Click the More Actions icon and select Duplicate to copy an existing pay link.
  2. Edit the details of the duplicated link including the quantity, price, number of payments and expiration date etc.
  3. Click Create Pay Link to share the duplicated link with the relevant customer.
- Deactivate: Click the More Actions icon and select Deactivate to make an active link inactive. Note: If no payments have been made, you'll also be able to select Delete to permanently delete a pay link.
- View Payments: View details of each payment.