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# External & Hosted Payment Pages

A **payment page** lets customers securely add a payment method or pay an invoice without going through a full checkout journey. Payment capture uses the billing provider's **hosted payment page** (for example Zuora's), so card and bank details go straight to the provider and never touch PeakCommerce servers.

## What you can do

* **Add a payment method** — capture and store a default payment method on the customer's account, optionally enabling auto-pay.
* **Pay an invoice** — present an invoice (with an optional partial-payment amount) and collect payment, storing the method for future use.

## How it works

Build a **Payment**-type page in **Content → Pages**, publish it to get its public URL, and link customers to it — for example from a billing email (see [Add payment page links to Zuora email templates](https://gitlab.com/peak-hercules/peak-help-docs/-/blob/main/product/using-peakcommerce/journeys-and-pages/pages/add-payment-page-links-to-zuora-email-templates.md)). You can pass prefill parameters on the URL (such as the account and invoice) so the page opens scoped to the right customer.


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