Whats the easiest way to take an online payment

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Hi,

Im building a website for a carpenter. He wants a page “Pay Your Bill” where the user can enter the amount and pay online.

Whats the simplest way to do this? PayPal or Stripe? With both I can find an easy solution based on a fixed amount, but I cant find an easy ‘out of the box’ way where the user specifies the amount. Perhaps the PayPal Donate button is the way to go?

Thanks

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Surely the amount is already known via the invoice? The ones I have seen normally have the amount in the payment box although some have a “Pay another amount” field.
I guess what I am asking is why would he want them to pay a lesser amount?

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Yes, the user knows how much they have to pay (becuase the client will have given them a paper invoice or emailed invoice). So the user needs to enter that amount on the payment page.

Is this possible with PayPal or Stripe? (and if so how).

Thanks

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Just send them a Paypal invoice or there is a way of sending them a link but I haven’t used that.
Only just started using Stripe so not sure about them but I assume they would have the same.

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