How to see who has paid in Google Forms?

"Managing 1000+ Form responses (like payment screenshots) is difficult"- Google Docs Editors Community

This is a common problem for Google Forms users once sign-ups pile up. For example, people might sign up for your workshop on a Google Form and upload a screenshot of their payment. Google Forms collects the screenshots, but you open them one at a time and check each against your account. Nothing in the form marks the ones you've done, so you lose your place and end up reminding people who already paid. With Neartail, you can mark each sign-up paid when you've checked it. Paid and unpaid sit in separate columns on your Kanban board, so you know who to remind. Even better, you don't have to build your form again. You just paste its link.

Let's start. Create your form and follow the steps below.

1. Add payment to your form

On the page that opens, click Add payment to your Google Forms, paste your workshop form's link and click Add payment. It makes a copy of your form. If it says "Your form is private or protected", click Next and give access or publish your form in Google Forms and paste that link. Select your currency and click Continue. When it says "Your order form is ready", click Preview your form, then Edit form. No form yet? Click Enter your form name instead, type its name, click Generate, wait about a minute and click Proceed.
The Neartail screen to add payment to Google Forms, with a form link pasted in and the Add payment button marked

2. Turn on how people pay

At the end of the editor, find Payments disabled and click Enable, then Enable again. If it asks "Do you want to collect payment on form submit?", click Yes instead. Under Manual payments, turn on what you take, such as Bank Transfer, enter your bank account details and click Save.
The payments panel with Bank Transfer turned on under Manual payments and the Save button marked

3. Open a sign-up to check

Share your form. Each person who submits it sees the amount and your bank account details and clicks Mark as Paid. Click ORDERS, then Kanban board and click a sign-up with a 💸 on it. Check the payment against your account, then click the pencil next to Status.
Sign-up #3 for James Chen, with his payment screenshot, Paid through Bank Transfer and the Status Paid not verified marked

4. Mark it paid

When the money is in your account, click Paid.
The Edit payment status dialog with Pending, Paid not verified and Paid and Paid marked

5. See who has paid

James moves to the Paid column, so you know you've checked him. Everyone left in Submitted still has a 💸, so that's who to check or remind.
The Kanban board with Priya Nair and Daniel Park in Submitted and James Chen, Maria Garcia and Tom Reyes in the Paid column, which is marked

Summary

If you check payment screenshots one at a time, nothing marks the ones you've done and you end up reminding people who already paid. With Neartail, you mark each sign-up paid after you've checked it and paid and unpaid sit in separate columns on your board. Create your form and complete the steps above.

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