Payment‑Gated Funnels with SAGA & Stripe

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Payment‑Gated Funnels with SAGA & Stripe

You can build a payment‑gated funnel entirely inside SAGA — where a visitor has to pay before they get access to your premium content — even though SAGA has no native payment processing. It works by placing a Stripe payment link inside one of your info pages (a prospecting tool) and letting Stripe redirect the buyer to a second info page once the payment succeeds.

There's no coding required, no developer needed, and the whole setup takes a few minutes.

How It Works — The Flow in 4 Steps

  1. Create a Stripe payment link. In Stripe, create a Payment Link for your product (one‑time payment) with a fixed amount. This is the “paywall” your visitor will hit.

  2. Build two info pages in SAGA.

    • Page A (the upsell / preview page): sells the offer and contains the button that points to your Stripe payment link.

    • Page B (the locked / delivery page): contains the premium content the buyer unlocks. This page is only reachable after payment.

  3. Connect them with a redirect. In your Stripe Payment Link settings, set After payment → Redirect to to the direct URL of Page B (your delivery info page). Stripe will automatically send every payer there once checkout succeeds.

  4. Share Page A. Send the visitor to the preview page (or embed it in one of your prospecting tools). They read the pitch, click the button, pay on Stripe, and land on the delivery page with the content they paid for.

Step‑by‑Step Example

Let’s say you sell a paid “Digital Business Starter Kit” for €29.

1. Create the Stripe Payment Link

  • Log into your Stripe Dashboard → Payment Links → New payment link.

  • Attach your Digital Business Starter Kit product with the €29 one‑time price.

  • Copy the generated link (it looks like buy.stripe.com/…).

2. Build the Two Info Pages

  • Go to Info Pages in SAGA and create a new page: Digital Business Starter Kit — Preview (this is Page A).

  • Create a second page: My Digital Business Starter Kit (this is Page B — the delivery page). Put your paid content here (downloads, video, guide, access link, etc.).

3. Add the Pay Button to Page A

Add an HTML block to Page A and paste a simple “Buy now” button that opens your Stripe payment link:

<a href="YOUR_STRIPE_PAYMENT_LINK" style="display:inline-block;padding:14px 28px;background:#635bff;color:#fff;border-radius:8px;text-decoration:none">Buy now — €29</a>

Replace YOUR_STRIPE_PAYMENT_LINK with the link you copied in step 1.

4. Set the Post‑Payment Redirect to Page B

  • Copy the public URL of Page B (the delivery page) via the External Link button on the page.

  • In Stripe → edit your Payment Link → under After payment, select Redirect to and paste Page B’s URL.

  • Save. Now every successful payment lands the buyer directly on the delivery page.

5. Drive Traffic to Page A

  • Share Page A’s link anywhere — or reference it in your prospecting tools (scripts, lead magnets, forms, CRM messages) so your leads land on the preview page first.

  • Anyone who pays is redirected to Page B; anyone who doesn’t just stays on the preview.

Tips & Good Practices

  • Track your buyers. Add a contact form on Page A so a contact is created in your SAGA CRM when someone interacts with the page — then follow up with them directly.

  • Use Stripe’s redirect thoughtfully. The redirect doesn’t require a login, so anyone with Page B’s direct URL can preview the delivery page. If full access control matters, keep the valuable content behind a link that anyone who didn’t pay shouldn’t see publicly.

  • Receipts & refunds are handled entirely by Stripe — SAGA stays out of the payment flow and just drives the funnel.

  • Different prices? Create a separate Payment Link per product/price, each redirecting to its own delivery page.

What SAGA Can’t Do Yet

SAGA has no native payment processing, so it can’t directly charge customers or verify a payment itself. The Stripe payment link + redirect pattern is the native SAGA way to build a payment‑gated funnel today.