While collecting payments, do you solely rely on payment links, QRs, buttons, etc.? What about showing your business details (contact details, offerings, etc.) along with payment collection? And what if you can do this even without a website? When PayG Pay Profile is there – You can do Everything.

You will no longer need a website to collect payment in a premium way where you can show your business details – Pay Profile will assist you with that.

What Is A Pay Profile?

Pay Profile is one of the latest products from PayG that allows merchants to share a website-like page with their customers at the time of collecting payments. Now, the specialty of this website-like page is that the merchants can put all the details of the company (contact information, address, etc.) and all its offerings on that page itself. The page will come with a payment link through which the customers can pay.

PayG Pay Profile offers two different types of profiles: Easy Collect Profile and Smart Collect Profile. On each of these profiles, merchants will get editable templates where they can enter their company details, offerings, and payment details to get a sharable link. Customers, while clicking the profile link, will land on the PayG Pay Profile of the merchant, select their requirements, and pay.

Easy Collect

Easy Collect is for merchants who want to collect payments from any customer (known or unknown). Here, merchants have 3 pricing options: Fixed, User-defined, and Catalogue.

It is most suited while asking for crowdfunding or donation, where the end-users decide the payable amount. Similarly, by turning on only the fixed price option, merchants from any other industry can use the Easy Collect Profile and collect payments accordingly.

In order to generate an Easy Collect Link, the merchant only needs to specify:

1. Enter company details
2. The reason for collecting payment (as a title and description)  
3. Pricing of the product/s or service/s (if fixed pricing is opted) 
4. Create a customizable form for your users with text fields, number fields, dropdowns, etc.  
5. Select the activation date, expiry date, etc.  
6. Select invoice details  

It will generate a profile link, profile QR, and a profile button that can be shared with anyone. On opening any of these, the users have to enter their details (name, number, email ID, etc.) and insert the amount they want to pay or pay the fixed amount in order to complete the transaction successfully.

Smart Collect

Smart Collect Profile is for merchants who operate on a large scale and want to collect payment from a huge number of customers in one go. Here, the merchant necessarily knows their customers and knows the payable amount of each customer.

For example, while collecting tuition fees, the management is previously aware of the fee amount of each student based on their subject combination. In order to generate Smart Collect link, the merchants have to enter

• Company/merchant details
• Unique field for each user 
• Known data (details of the users and payable amount for each user) 

Here, the merchant can add data one by one, or they can go for a bulk upload by downloading PayG generated Excel Sheet and uploading it as a CSV file.

In easier words, the merchant here will insert a catalogue having the details of each user (like name, contact number, details of products/services, amount to be paid, etc.) to generate the shareable Smart Collect Profile link.

End-users, on clicking the Smart Collect link, have to enter only the unique value, and all other details will come up along with the payable amount. By clicking on the pay button, users can complete the payment. Therefore, the merchant will not need to ask all their users separately to pay the amount. Rather, with one single Pay Profile, the merchant can collect payment from all.

So, Smart Collect is best fitted for any educational institute, institutes for extra-curricular activities, clubs, gyms, accommodation centres, etc. Hence, the merchants can set a catalogue here, any merchant having a fixed rate for specific activities/services /products can opt for this Smart Collect profile.

What Does PayG Pay Profile Do?

PayG Pay Profile ultimately helps the merchants in collecting the payments from the end-users, but in style. This product enables the merchants to offer their customers a website-like look and feel while collecting payments. Instead of creating a simple payment link or QR, merchants can share their Business Profiles with their customers to collect payments.

While receiving the profile link, customers can see the merchant details, offerings, etc. by clicking on it. They need to select their requirements, and it will automatically generate the amount to pay. Otherwise, they need to insert an amount as per their wish and pay.

In a nutshell, the merchants can offer this website-like page to the customers and offer them a convenient and flexible payment experience.

How Can A Merchant Create A Pay Profile On PayG?

PayG comes with a straightforward process of creating a Pay Profile. So, the merchants need neither to put any designing nor any coding effort. Here are the steps they need to follow:

1. Choose the template and colour
2. Select a logo and banner
3. Insert title and other details
4. Add more fields if needed
5. Fill up the unique field and add the catalogue (Smart Collect)
6. Add the details you want from your customers while they pay
7. Select expiry date (if needed) and other criteria
8. Generate PayG Pay Profile link
9. Share the Pay Profile link with your customers using email, WhatsApp, chat, messenger, SMS, etc.

Use cases of PayG Pay Profile

Pay Profile comes with an extensive use case – here are a few to mention: 

• Educational institutes
• Habitat centres(PGs, hostels, etc.) 
• Coaching centres
• Private tutors
• Sports and game academies
• Music and dance academies
• NGOs
• Influencers
• Collecting Donations
• Registrations
• Management agencies
• Parking areas
• Clubs and societies
• Gyms
• Takeaway counters of any shop

How Can the Pay Profile Help the Merchant?

Now, let us understand the benefits of PayG Pay Profile specifically for the merchants:

A Delightful Customer Experience

A Pay Profile is for merchants who want to offer a pleasant customer experience while they pay. Just sending a payment link or QR code may not offer this kind of experience to the customers.

With Pay Profile, it becomes easier for customers to pay for anything while getting complete details of the business. Simply by clicking on the Pay Profile link of the merchant, customers can enter their unique value and get the other details before paying. Alternatively, they can select a service to find the amount and pay or enter the donation amount and pay.

There will be a payment/donation button on the profile which will make the page more pleasing. Altogether, it comes with a delightful and satisfactory buying experience. Enhanced customer experience is always the key target of the merchants – this profile helps in that so that merchants can win loyal customers.

A Complete Identity for Merchants

With Pay Profile, PayG encourages local merchants to expand their business. It offers some outstanding features like

1. Profile QR
2. Profile Link
3. Profile Button

So, for merchants who lack a complete business profile – this feature is going to help them a lot. Also, they do not need to pay anything extra to get the Pay Profile with all these features - With PayG payment gateway, this profile comes to the merchants.

Easier Payment Collection

Pay Profile is an easier option to collect payment because the merchants can ask for payments from one or many at one go. It reduces the manual effort of the merchants. Additionally, they can track and manage payments received through Pay Profile on their merchant dashboard. So, the entire management becomes swift.

PayG empowers merchants to collect payments without much hustle-bustle. It offers a payment gateway without integration – so, the merchants do not need to spend all their savings or long hours to get it done. They need to onboard themselves with PayG – and request access for Pay Profile. On approval, they are all set to collect payments with their profiles.

Learn About One More Exclusive Product of PayG:

• PayG Payment gateway
• PayG Pay Buttons
• PayG Payment Links
• PayG Pay Profile
• PayG Invoices
• PayG Reports
• Booking and Ticketing
• PayG Payment QR

End Words

So, PayG Pay Profile is a distinctive feature that can offer a breezy payment collection opportunity to the merchants. It also offers a website-like appearance to bring a premium feel to the customers that benefits the merchants.

At the same time, tracking payments is like trouble to the merchants, which Pay Profile readily resolves. Most importantly, the merchants do not need to put in any extra effort/money to get their Pay Profiles; all they need is to get PayG Payment Gateway to get the Pay Profile.