Do you need to receive payments online? Use a Codeeta widget

In this new post we want to introduce you to our second type of widget, the online payment reception widget, or payment widget for short.  An uncomplicated widget, customizable and that you can embed into your web pages, blog or social network profile and pages in order to start receiving payments in a matter of minutes.

The first step for this is to get registered at Codeeta with the required level of service and to create a customized widget for your own use.

Secondly, we need to wire-up the widget to the payment gateway of your choice: for now Paypal or any of the virtual TPVs offered by Banks and Mutuals in Spain, all of them grouped,  4B, Servired and Red6000.

The third step is to export the widget and embed it into your web page, blog or social network. If you do not have a web, there is no problem either, the widget will get published with its own URL address.

In fourth place, you should manage the activity captured by the widget. Yes, we mean payments. You only have to make known the web address where the widget is accessible from and wait for your customers to make the appropriate payments with a Credit Card or Paypal. Received transactions will be stored in an orderly fashion within Codeeta so you can do your own searches, generate reports, etc.

The fith, final and optional step is to configure notifications so that you can receive alerts via e-mail, SMS or RSS feed about processed transactions.

An easy way to start accepting online payments and kick-start the growth of your online business. A simple payment method, ideal for freelance workers, small businesses, professionals, and event organizers to handle the registrations.

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Do you need a contact form? Use a Codeeta widget to create an online form

Codeeta widgets are small web apps with a specific functionality. When you think about self-contained but useful features, one of the most interesting ones is to be able to collect information via the Internet. Because of that, even though it is not very disrupting, the first widget that Codeeta offers in its platform is a form widget.

Codeeta allows you to create web forms, customized to your needs, and insert them as widgets where you require them: web site, blog…

As soon as the widget is embedded, it will start capturing information for you and  the info received will be orderly stored within Codeeta so that you can search it, create reports, etc.

In addition, every time a form deals with a new submission you can receive that entry as a notification via e-mail, SMS or fed to a 3rd-party web app like Mailchimp.

In this simple way, you can start capturing info online in a professional manner taking advantage of your contact form, order dispatch form, registration form, etc.

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Widgets? Platform? Codeewhat?

After speaking to many of the exhibitors in the recent OMExpo event in Madrid, which is focused in online marketing, we came to realize that widgets, as a concept, are not such a popular term amongst the masses… so, till the Merriam-Webster dictionary clarifies and extends the term for the Web 2.0 age, we will give you our two cents on the matter so that we all can understand what we are discussing here.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) says:

“A widget is an interactive single purpose application for displaying and/or updating local data or data on the Web, packaged in a way to allow a single download and installation on a user’s machine or mobile device. ”

This definition of a widget is totally spot on, however it focuses on the export aspects and its use in desktop environments and mobile devices. There are other kind of widgets that spawn from the web and live in it. This widgets do not require any prior file download for their execution, just a hyperlink, usually contained within an iframe or script, which connects via internet with the server that serves the functionality. But let’s see this with an example.

This is the code snippet for a Web Widget served by Codeeta:

This is the widget produced by our platform,  Codeeta, when the code snippet above connects via internet with the server:

Hence, using as a reference the diagram below, a Web Widget is module that delivers the functionality or content served by a Web Service (left hand side of the diagram).

Widgets are very useful as they allow us to add on our website, blog, social network profile or page just the functionality we need. That is precisely the reason why we have developed Codeeta, so that creating widgets is easy and accessible for everyone. Codeeta (central section of the diagram) is a web platform that enables you to mash-up other functionality from interesting Web Services, allowing you to configure and style your customized widgets and helping you to export them to  wherever you need them.

For now, Codeeta supports two types of exportable widgets to different web environments:

• A widget to create online forms and collect informations in a secure way through internet and;
• A widget  to create payment forms and receive monies also in a secure way via web.

We believe that these two widgets will be very useful for your web projects, albeit our heads are feverish with ideas that we will be developing bit by bit… If you want to share yours with us, we will be happy to listen.

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3,2,1… Codeeta!!!

We are aware that there are still many things that need to be improved, but instead of going blind, we would rather have your opinion and prioritize things that are important to you. We hope to be up to the challenge, we think we have more than enough energy and motivation.

We will dedicate the last paragraph of this first post to thank everyone that helped us make it to this point: our early Beta customers, our partners in different projects, our investors, CDTI and, specially our families and friends who make us go forward. To all of them, Thank you!

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