Accept payments through Stripe, right inside Macaly

You spent three months writing an e-book. The website to sell it took twenty minutes in Macaly. But then comes the real question: how do you actually get paid for it? This is where most projects stall.

From now on, Macaly handles that part too, thanks to a direct integration with Stripe. After testing with our first users, we're making the feature available on every account starting today.

Macaly builds the cart and the checkout

On most web platforms, taking payments means going through a whole setup routine. A cart, a checkout, a payment gateway, automated confirmation emails, products wired to a database, receipts to issue. Often through paid plugins or extensions.

Macaly does all of it from a single prompt. Ask the agent to add payments to your project, and it builds the entire flow from start to finish. There are no themes to choose from and no plugins to install.

Sell once, or sell every month

Anything you can charge for, you can sell through Macaly. Stripe supports both one-time purchases and recurring payments.

• One-time purchases work for items or services you sell once: a physical product in your store, a digital download, a workshop ticket, a single consultation. The agent builds the product page, the cart, and the checkout, and it makes sure customers get what they paid for after checkout, such as redirecting them to a download page.
• Recurring payments work for anything you bill on a schedule: a membership area, a monthly course, a SaaS tool, a community with paid access, or a content library. The agent takes care of the recurring billing, user accounts, access to paid content, and subscription cancellations.

From test purchase to real sales

As soon as you ask the agent to add payments, you can start with test purchases. Macaly creates a private testing environment that behaves like a real store. You can run sample purchases with test cards, try declined payments, see what your customers see after placing an order, and fine-tune the whole flow until you're happy with it.

Only then do you connect your real, verified Stripe account and start selling for real.

And card details never pass through your project, or through Macaly. Every payment and all sensitive information is handled directly by Stripe, one of the most widely used and trusted payment systems in the world.

How to add payments to your project

Stripe payments are now available across all Macaly projects, in both new and existing chats. Just tell the agent what you want to sell, and it sets up the entire payment flow for your project.

The new Payments tab in your project guides you through setup, from your first test purchase to connecting your Stripe account. The same tab also gives you a clear dashboard with the key numbers: revenue, order count, average order value, and a feed of recent transactions. All without leaving Macaly.

For a detailed walkthrough and more, take a look at our Stripe integration documentation.

Building a website is easier than ever. Now the part that turns it into a real business is too.