PaySlate Invoicing and Payment Requests for WordPress with Stripe and Square
PaySlate is a WordPress invoice plugin for client invoicing and payment requests. It turns your WordPress site into the place you send invoices and collect the money. Build an invoice in a few clicks, send it, and your client pays by card on your own domain. No third-party portal, no account for them to create, and no WooCommerce store to set up first.
Send invoices, send a payment request for a fixed amount, or ask for a deposit before you start work. Whichever you send, the client opens a link on your site and pays.
Send an invoice and get paid
- Invoice clients with line items, tax, discounts, due dates and notes.
- Get paid by card through Stripe or Square, on your own site.
- Apple Pay and Google Pay appear automatically on supported devices through Stripe Checkout.
- Your client opens a link and pays. They never create an account.
What your clients can pay with
Card, wallet and pay-later methods reach your invoice through the gateway you connect, so you get a wide set without wiring up anything yourself. The payments overview explains which gateway carries which.
- Card networks: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, UnionPay, Maestro.
- Digital wallets: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Amazon Pay, Alipay, WeChat Pay.
- Pay later: Klarna, Afterpay.
Cards work the moment you connect a gateway. Wallets and pay-later options follow whatever your own gateway account, country and currency support, so treat the list as what is reachable rather than a promise that every method is on for every store.
Take a deposit, or let them pay part of it
Service work runs on money up front. Ask for a deposit before you start, let a client pay the full balance, or accept a custom amount. PaySlate tracks the remaining balance for you, so a part-paid invoice never turns into guesswork.
Know what you are owed
Every invoice carries a status you can see at a glance: sent, viewed, partial, paid or overdue. Receipts send themselves when payment clears. Overdue reminders go out on their own, so chasing an unpaid invoice is not a task you have to remember.
No WooCommerce required
Most WordPress invoicing tools are add-ons that produce a PDF for an order a store already took. That is a different job. PaySlate is for invoicing a named client for an agreed amount, and it runs on its own. If you have been looking for invoicing without WooCommerce, this is it. If you do have WooCommerce, PaySlate coexists with it and can reuse a Stripe configuration you already have.
Who it is for
Freelancers, consultants and agencies who bill clients directly and would rather send them to their own website than to someone else’s invoicing portal. If client invoicing is how you get paid, this is built for you.
PaySlate Pro
The free plugin above is complete and stays free. Pro is available separately for people who need more:
- Four more payment gateways: PayPal, Checkout.com, Paddle and Lemon Squeezy. All six are compared on the payments overview.
- Merchant of record support. Paddle and Lemon Squeezy become the seller on the transaction, which means they handle the EU VAT and US sales tax registration, filing and remittance instead of you. That is the answer if you sell across borders and do not want to track tax thresholds in every market you happen to sell into.
- Recurring invoices with billing schedules and automatic retries on a failed charge.
- Automatic late fees applied by your own policy.
- Accounting export to QuickBooks and Xero.
Full feature list, pricing, and documentation.
External services
PaySlate does not process payments itself. It connects to your chosen provider, Stripe or Square, to securely collect and process card payments, the same way any payment plugin does. Card details are handled by the provider and are never stored on your site.
Learn more at payslate.app.
Disclaimer
PaySlate is an independently developed plugin and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Stripe, Square, or WordPress.
Merchant of record providers change who is responsible for tax on a sale. PaySlate does not give tax advice, and your own registration obligations remain yours to understand.