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Enhanced URLs

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Overview

Enhanced URLs enable you to prepopulate can be used to prefill fields on your Blink page dynamically. This is very particularly useful for accepting when collecting payments quickly.

Navigation

You can create enhanced URLs on for your Blink page(s) , by navigating to accessing the Modify Fieldfield section of the Customiser page by navigating to within the Customer Centre.

How To Use

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On the Blink

Page

page customiser page,

go

navigate to the Modify

Fields

fields section. Rename the URL descriptors of the fields that you

wish

want to prepopulate

accordingly

.

You

Additionally, you may

also

want to

mark

set them as read-only

, so the customer will not be able to edit the fields. On the address bar of

to prevent customers from editing them.

To add a value to the URL descriptor on your Blink page,

add a “?” symbol

simply type a question mark "?" on the address bar, followed by the URL descriptor,

followed by “=”

an equal sign "=", and

finally, by

the desired value

you wish for it to have

. If you want to

populate

add another

field, add “&” followed by

value, separate the URL descriptor

, “=”

and

the

value with an ampersand &".

e.g. secure.blinkpayment.co.uk/charity?amount=10&description=Donation

You can also rename fields to something more relevant. If you are a B2B, you can change “Full Name” to “Business Name”name”.

Please see some more examples below of how you can use enhanced URLs.

Info

Please note that for the currency field modifier you must use the 3 digit numerical currency code (e.g. 826 for GBP or 840 for USD) in the URL.

(A full list of codes can be found here: https://www.iban.com/currency-codes - External Link)

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Selling Specific Products

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CRM Integrations

Suppose

If you are selling

items with specific

items with different amounts

, rather than

and you want to avoid relying on the customer to fill in the correct amount or having to

make

create a

PayLink

payment link for every payment

. In that case

, you can use

the

URL descriptors to prefill

them

the required fields and mark

the field

them as read-only

to ensure it is not

, so that they cannot be changed.

Pay for Shoes, Pay for a Shirt, Pay for a Jumper

Using

You can accept payment for various products and orders using the same Blink page

, you can accept payments for different products with different payments. As

. Both you and the customer receive email notifications when a

successful

payment is successfully made

, you will immediately be able to fulfil the customer’s purchase without needing

. This allows you to fulfill the customer's purchase immediately without requiring a website integration.

With most

Most CRM tools

(

such as Mailchimp, Xero, and Salesforce

),

allow you

will be able to access customers' details with their filed names. You can match your Blink page’s

to retrieve customer information using field names. By matching your Blink page's descriptor URLs with your CRMs

; you will be able to enter the details dynamically. You can

, you can dynamically enter customer details and create a unique page for each customer with

one

a single URL link.

e.g. secure.blinkpayment.co.uk/charity?Name=|CUSTOMER NAME|&email=|CUSTOMER EMAIL|

Please

see

refer to our Xero integration guide

for seeing

to learn how to attach Blink pages to

your

Xero invoices

, with dynamically entering your

and enter the invoice number

to the Blink page

dynamically.