The Stripe Payment Element lets one order form offer cards, digital wallets, Stripe Link and pay-over-time options, and each buyer sees the ones that fit them. In this lesson, you'll set it up from start to finish: turn on methods in Stripe, check what wallets need, add the element to your form, and check it the way your buyers will see it.
You'll need a Plus account or above, and the Stripe or Stripe Token gateway connected to your order form. If you haven't connected Stripe yet, the Gateway setup lesson walks you through it.
Three layers decide what a buyer sees. First, Ontraport's settings. ACH and Cash App aren't supported, so they never appear, even if Stripe offers them. Second, your Stripe account. Only the methods you've turned on there can show. Third, Stripe's own rules. Stripe checks the buyer's country, the currency, the order amount and their device or browser. You don't pick the methods in Ontraport.
So start in your Stripe account and choose the payment methods you want to offer. That choice lives in Stripe, not Ontraport. Pay-over-time options like Klarna and Affirm are on by default, and you only pay their fee when a buyer actually uses one. If they don't fit your business, you can opt out anytime.
Wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay may need extra setup, including registering the domain where your checkout appears. Stripe's guides explain what each wallet needs. Exactly how that setup works depends on how your Stripe account is connected, so follow Stripe's guidance, and ask Stripe support to confirm the steps for your account before you count on wallet buttons.
Now open your order page. The Stripe Payment element replaces the Credit Card element, and it can't go in a block that already has credit card fields. So on an existing form, remove those first. Then drag in the Stripe Payment element. Add contact fields for at least name and email, and a Submit button. An Order Summary is recommended. The element collects the card details, country and zip code itself. If you sell physical products, add Shipping Address, because the element doesn't collect it.
In the element's settings, you can choose the layout, accordion or tabs, plus the theme, colors and border style. That's what you control in Ontraport. Which methods show is up to Stripe and the buyer.
One thing to check before you publish. You can't publish a page with this element while Stripe Tax is turned on. Either remove the element or turn off Stripe Tax.
Then publish your page and open it the way buyers will, on a phone and on a computer, to see which payment options appear. Stripe's guide says a wallet button only shows on a supported device and browser, with that wallet set up with a card, and not in a private or incognito window. If a method you turned on doesn't show, check the buyer's country, the currency and the order amount before you assume something's broken.
Two last points. When someone pays for a subscription with a wallet, it only authorizes that subscription, so you can't reuse it for separate one-off charges later. And reports on how buyers pay, like how often they use Link or pay over time, are in your Stripe Dashboard, not in Ontraport.
So: turn on your methods in Stripe, check what your wallets need, add and style the element, make sure Stripe Tax is off, and check your published checkout on real devices. Next up: setting up products.