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Crevio provides a streamlined checkout experience powered by Stripe’s custom UI mode. Buyers complete their purchase without leaving your storefront, keeping the experience on-brand and distraction-free.

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How checkout works

1

Buyer adds items

A buyer selects a price variant on your product page, or clicks a checkout link you have shared. This creates a checkout session with the selected items.
2

Payment details

For paid products, Stripe’s embedded payment form collects the buyer’s card details, billing information, and any applicable tax. The form renders directly within your storefront — buyers are never redirected to a third-party page.
3

Discount codes

If you have created discount codes, buyers can enter them during checkout to reduce the total.
4

Order completion

Once payment succeeds, Crevio creates an order, grants the buyer access to the purchased experiences, and sends a confirmation.
Crevio determines the checkout mode automatically based on the items in the cart. If any item is a subscription, the checkout runs in subscription mode. Otherwise, it runs in one-time payment mode. You cannot mix subscription and one-time items in a single checkout.
Checkout links are shareable URLs that take a buyer directly to a pre-configured checkout. Instead of sending someone to your storefront and asking them to find the product, you give them a link that starts the purchase flow immediately. Each checkout link:
  • Contains one or more pre-selected price variants
  • Generates a QR code automatically, which you can download and embed in presentations, print materials, or social posts
  • Can optionally have a discount code pre-applied
  • Can include a custom success URL that the buyer is redirected to after purchase
Checkout links are great for promotions, email campaigns, and social media CTAs. Share a single URL and the buyer lands straight on the payment step.
  • A checkout link must include at least one price variant.
  • You can only include one price variant per product in a link.
  • You cannot mix subscription and one-time variants in the same link.
  • Only one subscription variant is allowed per link.

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Shopping carts

Buyers browsing your storefront can add multiple products to a shopping cart before checking out. The cart:
  • Supports multiple items with individual quantities
  • Shows the total across all items
  • Tracks the buyer by session (anonymous) or by customer account (logged in)
  • Merges automatically when a session-based cart is associated with a logged-in customer
When a buyer proceeds to checkout from their cart, Crevio creates a checkout session containing all cart items.
All items in a cart must use the same currency. If a buyer tries to add items with different currencies, the checkout will not proceed.

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Free checkout

If every item in a checkout has a free price variant, Crevio skips the Stripe payment flow entirely. The buyer completes the checkout without entering any payment information, and you do not need a connected Stripe account for free-only products. This is useful for:
  • Lead magnets and email list builders
  • Free community access
  • Gated content that requires sign-up but no payment

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Checkout states

Every checkout session moves through one of these states:
StateDescription
OpenThe checkout has been created and the buyer is actively completing it.
CompletePayment succeeded (or the checkout was free) and an order has been created.
AbandonedThe buyer left without completing payment. This happens when a new checkout replaces a previous one from the same cart.
ExpiredThe Stripe session expired before the buyer completed payment. Stripe sessions have a built-in expiration window.

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Pre-filled email

When a checkout is created from an invoice, the buyer’s email address is pre-filled from the invoice record. This saves the buyer a step and reduces friction for invoice-initiated purchases.

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Discount codes at checkout

Buyers can enter a discount code during the checkout flow. The discount is validated in real-time — Crevio checks that the code is active, has not exceeded its redemption limit, has not expired, and (if applicable) targets the specific price variant in the checkout. See Discounts for details on creating and managing discount codes.

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Cross-sell recommendations

During checkout, Crevio can display cross-sell product recommendations based on the items already in the buyer’s cart. These are configured at the price variant level and encourage buyers to add complementary products before completing their purchase.