Setting Up Payment Accounts: Stripe or PayPal

Brick River system provides you two options for processing the payments: PayPal and Stripe. Both of them allow you to use Brick River for your event registration and form system while accepting payments with your preferred processor. For example, you can accept donations for a good cause or accept payments for a conference. Both PayPal and Stripe are easy to set up, but we recommend Stripe as it is relatively easier. If you use PayPal, you will be redirected to another page. 


Before creating a registration form, you need to first configure your system with your PayPal or Stripe account information. Here's how:

SETTING UP STRIPE

  1. On the top menu, click Reg->Payment Accounts. The setup page is displayed.
  2. Click on the drop-down Add a New Account and select Stripe. A new tab will open.
  3. Enter an email address. If you already have a Stripe account, use the same email address as the one connected to that account.
  4. At this point, Stripe will invite you to add a "business" you've already created in Stripe or will ask you to start a new "business".
  5. If you start a new business, follow the prompts Stripe gives you. To start the new "business" and accept money via Stripe, you will need the following information handy:
    • Legal business name
    • Business Employer Identification Number (EIN) or tax number
    • Business address, phone number and website
    • The legal representative's name, date of birth, address and the last four of their Social Security number.
    • Bank account information, including routing number and account number.
  6. Once you have finished entering all the details, you will be redirected to the Brick River payment accounts screen. Your account has been added. We recommend running a quick test transaction via a reg form.
  7. Optionally, in the payment accounts screen, you can select the Edit button next to the account name. You will be prompted to rename the account to provide it with a recognizable, "friendly" name in Brick River. This helps reg form builders identify the correct payment account when building a form.

SETTING UP PAYPAL

  1. On the top menu, click Reg->Payment Accounts. The setup page is displayed.
  2. Click on the drop-down Add a New Account and select PayPal
  3. Enter the email address required for PayPal and click Add Account. The standard instructions for setting up the PayPal account display. Follow the instructions. Once completed, the account will display on the Payments Account page.
  4. Your account has been added. We recommend running a quick test transaction via a reg form.
  5. Optionally, in the payment accounts screen, you can select the Edit button next to the account name. You will be prompted to rename the account to provide it with a recognizable, "friendly" name in Brick River. This helps reg form builders identify the correct payment account when building a form.