Connect Payments and Manage Billing

There are two sides to money in Drip Merch: collecting payments from your customers at checkout, and managing your own Drip Merch subscription. This article covers both.

Set up a payment provider

To accept online payments from customers, connect a payment provider in your shop settings. Drip Merch supports:

1. Stripe — Card payments through your Stripe account.
2. PayPal — PayPal checkout.
3. Authorize.Net — Card processing via Authorize.Net.

Once a provider is connected, customers can pay at your storefront checkout using the enabled options.

Steps to connect Stripe

1. Go to Settings → Payment Methods. This is a different page from Settings → Billing, which is only for your own Drip Merch subscription.
2. Connect your Stripe account and provide the required credentials.
3. Save your changes.
4. Place a test order in your storefront to confirm checkout works end to end.

The same general flow applies to PayPal and Authorize.Net — connect the account, save, and test.

Manage your Drip Merch subscription

Your own plan is handled in Settings → Billing. There you can:

1. See your current plan and switch between monthly and yearly billing.
2. Review your usage for the month. See the note below on what those figures actually mean.
3. Open the billing portal to update payment details, view invoices, or change your plan.

Keep an eye on usage

The usage panel shows three figures, and only one of them is real:

1. Team members — a live count against your plan's limit. This limit is enforced: once you reach it, inviting another member is refused with a message asking you to upgrade.
2. Orders — a live count of orders created this month, but it always displays against "Unlimited" and its progress bar is fixed at 25% regardless of the number. Plans do carry an order limit field, but nothing in Drip Merch ever checks it, so you cannot exceed it.
3. Storage — always shows 0. Storage use is never measured, and the storage limit is never enforced.

Next steps

With payments connected and your plan active, you're ready to open a storefront, add products, and start taking real orders. If a customer ever reports a checkout problem, revisit your payment provider settings and run a quick test order to confirm everything is still connected.