Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on vs Fluent Forms
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| Feature | Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on v2.5.3 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.2/5 Visit Details | Fluent Forms v6.2.16 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Last updated | October 7, 2026 | October 16, 2026 |
| Editions | Contact Form 7 - PayPal & Stripe Add-on · Contact Form 7 - PayPal & Stripe Add-on Pro ($) | Fluent Forms · Fluent Forms Pro ($) |
| Pros | Per-form PayPal and Stripe settings inside the Contact Form 7 editor; Payments history stored as a post type; PayPal sandbox mode, currency and language options; Works with PayPal only, Stripe only or both | Conditional fields in the free version; reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile spam protection; Entries and reports kept in wp-admin |
| Cons | Free version adds a 2% per-transaction fee; Form email is sent before payment; payment-gated email is Pro; Stripe Connect and PayPal onboarding run through the vendor's server | Payments need the Pro add-on; Calculation fields are shown as Pro features; Tracking is an opt-in notice on first use |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| Features (Form plugins checklist) | ||
| Conditional logic | — | Yes |
| Payments | — | Paid |
| Calculations | — | Paid |
| Entries in admin | — | Yes |
| Spam protection | — | Yes |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | PayPal and Stripe tab in each Contact Form 7 form, Payments list stored as a custom post type, Cron job that checks pending payment status, Redirect to Stripe Checkout after submission, PayPal Commerce Platform and standard PayPal checkout, Sandbox mode, currency and PayPal language settings, Custom cancel and success return URLs, Dashboard widget with payment summary, No 2% per-transaction fee ($) | Conditional field logic, Entries list in wp-admin, Form reports page, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile modules, Payment module (Pro) ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | PayPal, Stripe | Stripe ($) |
| — | Mailchimp | |
| Plugins | Contact Form 7 | — |
| Other | — | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha |
| Requires WordPress | 4.7 | 6.4 |
| Requires PHP | 5.5 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | Only if you agree |
| External services | api.stripe.com, wpplugin.org, www.paypal.com, ipnpb.paypal.com, api.wordpress.org | hooks.slack.com, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, js.hcaptcha.com, ipinfo.io, apip.cc, api.cleantalk.org, moderate.cleantalk.org, fluentform.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |
| Shortcodes | — | 2 |