Collect Payments


Integration with payment gateways allow you to collect money to cover the cost of organizing events before they start.

Event Espresso 3 has all these payment options and gateways:

Event Espresso supports a variety of popular payment methods including Authorize.net, PayPal, Braintree, Stripe, and more! Offline payment options like checks, bank transfer, and invoices are also supported.

We recommend an SSL certificate for your website if you are accepting payments through Event Espresso.

You can have one or more gateways activated at the same time to give registrants the option to pay via credit card, PayPal or an off-line payment method such as a Invoice or Bank Transfer.

Included Payment Options

These payment options and gateways that are currently available in the core plugin for Event Espresso 4:


Additional Payment Methods Available

We offer several payment gateway add-ons so you can offer different payment options to your registrants/attendees for the most flexibility in paying for their registrations.

Bonus!
These gateways are all included in the Event Espresso 4 Everything License

Don’t see your preferred payment method?

Hire a Developer
We recommend reaching out to a third-party developer, such as WP Gateways or one of our Event Espresso Pros.

Build Your Own
We have documentation available so you can create your own payment method for Event Espresso. This requires familiarity with WordPress and PHP:

View documentation on creating a new payment method for Event Espresso

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