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How to Use Pay What You Want Price for Your Product

In this tutorial I will explain how you can charge a “Pay What You Want Price” to sell your products.

There is an option in the eStore that allows you to make products where customers can choose what they want to pay you for a product.

How to Setup the “Pay What You Want” Feature

Step 1: Create a product as you would normally do.

Step 2: Specify the minimum amount you want your customers to pay in the “Price” field for this product. Example: $5.00

Step 3: In the product settings under “Additional Product Details” section, check the following option:

pay what you want price

Now, when you put the “Add to Cart” button on the page for this product, it will have an option to enter a custom price field next to the button. This will allow the customer to specify how much they want to pay for this product. Example Below:

pay-what-you-want-price-example

Using Pay What You Want Price with a Display Template

If you want to use a fancy display template with this feature, it will look like the following:

Customer Specifies a Price Demo
Customer Specifies a Price Demo
This is a test description. This description is here to show how the description of this product looks like.
Price: $2.00
Your Price: $ 

How to Allow Customers to Specify a Price For a Product (Name Your Price)

WP eStore plugin allows you to create products whereby your customers can specify how much they want to pay for the product (pay what you want).

This feature can be helpful for accepting donation amount or selling a product for charity work.

How to Use “Offer Your Price” Feature

  1. Create a product as you normally do in eStore
  2. Specify the minimum amount your customers can pay in the “Price” field of the product. Payment Gateways do not allow $0 product checkout so you need to specify a minimum price value of the product.
  3. Check the “Allow Customers to Specify a Price” checkbox from the “Additional Product Details” section and that should do it.

Allow customers to specify a price

 

Now, when you put an “Add to Cart” button for this product on a page, it will have a price field next to the button so the customers can specify how much they want to pay for the item.

name-your-price-feature-example

Using it with a Product Display Template

If you are using a fancy product display template to show the product then it will look like the following:

Customer Specifies a Price Demo
Customer Specifies a Price Demo
This is a test description. This description is here to show how the description of this product looks like.
Price: $2.00
Your Price: $ 

Note:

  • The minimum price that you can set for a product can be as low as 0.01 but please keep in mind that the payment gateway (for example PayPal) may not like it as they are not getting any commission from these transactions.
  • If you want to offer a product for free then use the squeeze page form option to do so.