Cognito-forms – Payment history showing only refunded and declined payments

The form’s preview option is only to see how the form will look; it doesn’t create new entries when you submit from the previewed form. You can, however, easily test your form at any time from the live installation.

Email notifications can be enabled within your form settings by checking the box labeled “Receive email notifications?” and entering in one or more email address. The emails can simply let you know there’s been a new entry, or it can include the submission’s field data by clicking the “Include details?” box that appears after email notifications have been selected.

Once live, any form entries are automatically stored in the entries folder for that form, and are hosted on a secure Microsoft Azure Cloud Server. You can view all your entries in this folder at any time, even if you have email notifications enabled.

Disclaimer: I’m a developer for Cognito Forms.

You are doing exactly what you need to do to make this work. The Require Payment option is really Require Online Credit Card Payment. If you do not connect your form to Stripe, it automatically treats all of your payment forms as invoices.

You can then select Include Receipt for confirmation emails to also include the receipt, which is really an invoice with an amount due like you would expect.