How to install WPdirectdebit on your website

1: Subscribe

You will need an active subscription to use WPdirectdebit. The cost is £159 a year with a free 30-day trial. If you cancel within that trial period no payment will be taken. Subscribe via this link. Your download link will be sent to you by email. Please allow 24 hours for this to arrive. You can manage your subscription via the Customer Portal – just look for this in the main menu.

2: Get Gravity Forms

We use this powerful form builder plugin to set up payments and subscriptions, and to send notifications by email to you and your customer. Of course, Gravity Forms is also perfect for your other web forms too.

If you don’t already use Gravity Forms, click the banner to sign up for a Gravity Forms account. Note, you only need the basic Gravity Forms plug-in in order to use WPdirectdebit. Then follow the Gravity Forms documentation to install and activate Gravity Forms.

3: Install WPdirectdebit

WPdirectdebit installs just like any other WordPress plugin. Login to your website with an admin account, upload it from the plugins page and activate it. Once active, you’ll see a new WPdirectdebit menu item in the WordPress dashboard.

4: Complete the merchant registration form

Merchants (i.e. the person or organisation who has the GoCardless account) must accept our end user licence agreement before using WPdirectdebit to connect to GoCardless in live mode. If you are the website developer and not the merchant, you should ask the merchant to complete this merchant registration form; you can’t complete it on their behalf. You can test in sandbox mode, but the site cannot connect to GoCardlesss in Live mode until we have received and hand-checked that completed form.

Requirements

WPdirectdebit requires WordPress version 6.0 or above, php Version 8.1 or above and the site must run over a secure connection (i.e. https:// not http://).