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My client runs a coaching business with a heart for meeting people where they are.
She offers flexible payment options. Different amounts, different timelines, different arrangements depending on the situation. Her clients have unique needs, and she wanted to be able to make things simpler for them and her.
She uses Stripe to collect payments and wanted a payment link that would securely collect her client’s credit card information, charge it automatically every month, and stop on its own once the agreed number of payments was complete. No manual follow-up. No awkward reminders. No wondering if someone had paid.
I figured out how to build it, tested it, worked out the details, and sent her the links when she needed them.
That worked fine. Until it didn’t.
One weekend she needed a payment link and I wasn’t available. She had to wait. That’s not a system. That’s a bottleneck.
She asked if I could teach her to do it herself. I looked at everything involved behind the scenes and knew that handing her a manual process wasn’t the right answer. It was complex enough that walking her through it might leave her frustrated or overwhelmed.
So, I built something that made it easy.
Now she opens a Google Form, answers five questions, and submits it. Within thirty seconds the system has created the product in Stripe, attached the image she chose, built the payment link, set up the automatic monthly charges, and scheduled it to stop automatically after the agreed number of payments. The link lands in her Google Sheet ready to send in 30 seconds.
No third-party platforms. Just a clean, automated workflow built on Google Apps Script that runs in the background every time she needs it.
She doesn’t have to understand what’s happening behind the scenes. She just answers five questions and gets on with her day.
That’s what a good system looks like. It handles the complications so you don’t have to.
If you take payments in your business and you’re still building links manually or waiting on someone else to do it for you, there’s a better way.