In today’s competitive market, offering flexible online payment options has become essential for retaining subscribers. Customers are increasingly looking for convenience and the ability to manage their expenses over time, especially when it comes to recurring payments. One of the most effective ways to meet this demand is by enabling split payment option, a modern fintech solution that allows customers to pay for their subscriptions in two, four, or more installments instead of a single upfront fee. In 

Are you interested in implementing split payment on your WordPress website? You can do it within a few clicks if you are using the Better Payment plugin to manage payments on the website. Let us walk you through setting up and implementing split payments for your subscribers.

What Does the Split Payment Option Offer for the Subscription Model?

If the split payment option is new to you, then let us explain to you in detail what it is and how it works. The Split Payment option in a subscription model allows customers to divide a total purchase amount into several smaller, predefined payments over a fixed period. It helps to make payment more affordable and accessible, especially for high-value products or services. Unlike traditional recurring subscriptions, which continue indefinitely until canceled, split payments are structured to cover a one-time cost in multiple installments. 

For instance, a course priced at $499 might offer a split payment plan of four monthly payments of $125. Similarly, a SaaS product’s annual plan could be made available in three separate payments instead of requiring the full amount upfront. 

In most cases, users gain full access to the product or service from the beginning, even though they complete the payments gradually. This approach provides a more flexible purchasing option while maintaining a clear payment schedule. Nonetheless, it is critical that companies explain their policies regarding refunds, cancellations and unsuccessful payments. 

Best Way to Integrate Split Payment in Subscription Form: Use Better Payment

If you are managing your online payments through your Elementor-built WordPress websites, then you may have come across this trending plugin, Better Payment. This plugin has made creating outstanding payment forms and managing payments seamless in Elementor. Whether you are selling single products, collecting donations, managing donations, fundraising or subscriptions, you can do all with this plugin. This payment plugin gives you utmost flexibility in designing forms, integrating popular payment gateways and most importantly, 1-click payment.

The most unique feature this plugin offers is a split payment option to those who are creating and managing subscription forms. With some simple following steps, you can configure split payment for your subscribers and give them ease in payment. 

Honestly speaking, if you want to collect subscriptions by enabling split payment offers manually, you have to go through a lot of API integrations, permissions and custom coding. Better Payment has made it super smooth and easy to implement. If your subscription form design in Elementor needs one of the user-friendly features, split payment, then you must get Better Payment for your WordPress website.

How to Configure Split Payment Options for Subscriptions in WordPress without Coding?

Time to dive into the tutorial to set up split payment for your WordPress website. As we already mentioned, the Better Payment plugin has this stunning feature, the split payment option and we will install and activate it first. Also, the Better Payment plugin is compatible with the Elementor website builder. So, install and activate it too on your website. Then, follow the steps below. 

Step 1: Retrieve Price IDs from Stripe for Split Payment

You can only add the split payment option to your subscription form with Better Payment when Stripe is used as the payment method. So, you have to create and retrieve the Price IDs from Stripe and then integrate them with your subscription form, created with Better Payment.

Go to your Stripe account and log in. Now, click on the ‘+ Add Product’ button and a popup will appear. Here, add the product ‘Name’, ‘Description’ and  ‘Image’. Then select payment method ‘One-off’ and now add the default ‘Amount.’ Your product will be added with your set amount.

Choose the default product and click on it. Once you are in, click on the three dots right beside your default product. From the resulting popup options, click on the ’Copy Price ID’ option to retrieve the price ID of your chosen product. 

Your main subscription collecting Price ID is created, bravo. Now you have to configure Price IDs for the split payment option. Again, inside the chosen product, click on the ‘+’ icon and like previously, choose ‘Recurring,’ select Pricing Model, enter the Amount required per installation, choose a ‘Billing period’ and hit the ‘Create Price’ button. Now, click on the new price option and copy the Price ID.

This is how you collect Price IDs from Stripe to configure Split Payment into your Better Payment subscription.

Step 2: Create a Subscription Form with Better Payment in Elementor

Search for the ‘Better Payment’ element in the Elementor widget gallery. Drag and drop the element into the page where you want to add the subscription form. The form will instantly appear on your editor panel.

Under Better Payment ‘Payment Settings’, choose ‘Layout 4 | General’ from the ‘Form Layout Options’ and select ‘Payment Type’ as ‘Split Payment’. In the Price ID section, add the default price ID you copied earlier from Stripe. Only this form layout contains the subscription functionality. So you have to go with it. 

Step 3: Integrate Installment Price ID & Publish Your Subscription Form 

Select the desired installment period under the Split Payment option in the Installments section, then enter the split price ID that we generated in Stripe and copied. Now, click on the ‘Publish’ button.

In a similar way, you can add multiple Split Payments in a single default subscription form. To complete the process, simply add more split price IDs in Stripe and more installation items in the Better Payment form. This is how easily you configure Split Payment in your Better Payment subscription form in Elementor. Check out the final outcome below.

Make Subscription Payments Easy & Flexible in WordPress

By adding the option for split payments into subscription forms, Better Payment has revolutionized the WordPress payment system. With affordable pricing, you can enable the split payment option and start collecting subscription payments in installments. To make your payment collections smooth and hassle-free, get Better Payment for your website.

Hopefully, you can now easily offer a split payment option to your customers through Better Payment. Got stuck while configuring? Reach out to our prompt support team. Also, subscribe to us and keep getting more tips and guides.