Weebly Payment Options for Online Store Cart Checkout

Weebly offers different plans for targeting different user base. Performance plan helps users to create an online ecommerce store with all required features. You can easily have features like digital downloads, coupons, inventory management, etc. with Weebly store. One of the important aspects of selling goods online is to accept payments from the customers. In this article, we will explain the Weebly payment options for online store cart checkout.

Weebly Payment Options

Earlier Weebly allowed four payment gateway options for users. However, currently there are three options and Weebly removed Authorize.Net payment option.

Stripe
Square
Authorize.Net (Discarded)
PayPal

Remember, Square is the owner of Weebly and offers integrated ecommerce solution along with website builder.

Enabling Payment Option

Earlier, you have to enable the payment option for the site by going to “Store > Checkout” menu under the site editor. Currently, you can setup store settings directly from Weebly dashboard.

Login to your Weebly account.
Choose the site you want to setup payment option from the dashboard.
Go to “Settings” and then to “Checkout” section.
Click on the “Connect” button against any of the options and add your payment option.

You need to have PayPal, Stripe or Square accounts in order to connect that in Weebly. You can also apply for new accounts and connect instantly.

Square Payment Gateway

Square is the recommended payment option as they are the owner of Weebly. It allows integrated checkout on your online store and allows to accept credit cards instantly.

Square is the payment gateway from Squareup.com and deducts 2.9% plus 30¢ for each transaction.
It offers integrated Point of Sale (POS) and shopping cart for a mobile site which helps store owners to collect payment easily from mobile devices.
You can accept all popular credit cards like VISA and Mastercard.
You can get the funds within 2 days of payment with an option to use Square gift cards on your store.

Stripe Payment Gateway

Stripe is one of the first payment gateways from Weebly for store owners to accept payment from online customers. It allows integrated checkout on your online store and all Weebly users can enable it including free plan users.

You can accept all major credit cards immediately after enabling the payment gateway successfully on your Weebly site.
Stripe also allows Apple Pay and Android Pay on your store.
Transaction fee is same as Square, you need to pay 2.9% plus 30¢ for each transaction as commission and the fund may reach your account after 2 days from the transaction.

Authorize.Net (Discarded Now)

Authorize.Net was the payment gateways from Weebly for business plan users. It allowed integrated checkout on your online store and needs separate merchant account to be created outside Weebly.

Store owners needs to share 2.4% plus 30¢ for each transaction which is lower than the standard rate of 2.9%+30¢ for other users. In addition to commission on transactions, you also need to pay additional setup fee of $49 and a monthly gateway fee of $25.

However, Weebly removed both business plan and Authorize.Net with the current offering.

PayPal

PayPal is the most simple payment gateway for all Weebly users including free plan users. We do not recommend to use this option for your online stores since the customers will be redirected to PayPal site for checkout. Similar to other options, you need to have a separate PayPal account and pay the transaction fee of 2.9%+30¢ per transaction.

You can just click on the “Connect” button and add PayPal email address to your Weebly site. Since online communities widely use PayPal, Weebly claims you can increase the sales up to 18% with PayPal as a payment option.

Comparison of Weebly Checkout Options

Below is the comparison of all four checkout options, however Authorize.Net is no more available.

Feature	Stripe	Square	Authorize.Net	PayPal
Checkout	On your own site.	On your own site.	On your own site.	On PayPal site.
Transaction Fee	2.9%	2.9%	2.4%	2.9%
Additional Fee	30¢ per transaction	30¢ per transaction	30¢ per transaction	30¢ per transaction
Third Party Account	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Weebly Plan	All plans including free users.	Only for business plan users.	Only for business plan users.	All plans including free users.

Rose Aguayo

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October 11, 2020 at 2:25 PM

Hey! For some reason, my website isn’t accepting payments even though I’ve followed the instructions above. Any clue as to why? Thanks!

Editorial Staff
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Author

October 12, 2020 at 11:04 PM

Make sure you are using PayPal Business account. Weebly recently changed their setup and only accepts business account and not personal account.

June 22, 2020 at 1:38 PM

I’m having a problem, I connected to my stripe account through paypal powr payment button and added stripe as payment processor and its not working, What do I need to do to fix it??

WebNots Admin
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June 22, 2020 at 10:25 PM

What is not working? Are you not able to connect or not able to receive payment? Since you are using a third-party app, it is better you get the support from the app developer.

brian johnson

May 1, 2019 at 8:53 AM

if you use a service like Payolee you can accept payments on your weebly store

Toni

January 29, 2019 at 11:41 PM

I have a weebly site and use square. The fee is NOT 2.9% plus .30 cents. That fee is only if you are using a card reader. The rate is 3.50% plus .15 cents because they consider a website sale as a manual entry of a crefit card. This sucks! It makes them the most expensive credit card processor for online sales

Perry

September 24, 2018 at 3:37 PM

Currently I am unable to connect to Authorize.net from our unpublished Weebly website( currently redesigning the website behind the scenes;as we are adding an e-commerce component). When I click connect after entering my login info for Authorize.net the words “connecting” appear, then disappear, and nothing happens(no Error Code or anything). After conducting a conference call with our hosting company and Authorize.net it has been determined that the issue is on Weebly’s end. The problem is Weebly has not responded to the Hosting company in 8 days about the issue (we obtained Weebly through iPage).Therefore, we are doing our own research to try to find a resolution.
Has anyone else had an issue connecting to Authorize.net? If so, what steps were taken to resolve the issue?

Kyla-Jayne Rajah

January 26, 2017 at 6:02 AM

Hello,

Do you know if the enable paypal checkout is still available in weebly? Do you have to connect it via paypal, or is it on the weebly checkout page? I can’t find it anywhere in my weebly account. Also, to use paypal with your shopping cart in weebly you need to have a business account.

WebNots Admin
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January 27, 2017 at 9:35 PM

It is available under “Store > Checkout”. Yes, you need PayPal business account to accept payments on your Weebly site.
- Terri Watson
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  November 13, 2017 at 8:34 AM
  
  If I enable Stripe on my fee Weebly website, are the only fees I pay the ones charged by Stripe (2.9% plus .30/transaction) or is there an additional fee collected by Weebly to cover their hosting costs. I am interested in making sure I understand the total amount of money that will be taken from the customer payment and reaching me.
  - WebNots Admin
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    November 25, 2017 at 6:42 PM
    
    As far as we understand, Weebly does not collect transaction fee. It is collected by the payment processing companies like Stripe or PayPal.

Weebly Payment Options for Online Store Cart Checkout