Description
Changing consumer behavior has resulted in an explosion of payment methods and experiences, which are great for increasing conversion and lowering costs—but can be difficult for businesses to maintain. Give customers a best-in-class checkout experience while you remain focused on your core business. This is the official plugin created by Stripe and WooCommerce.
Drive 11.9% in revenue with an optimized checkout experience from Stripe
The enhanced checkout experience from Stripe can help customers:
- Boost conversion: Provide an optimal experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop with a responsive checkout, and offer 23 payment methods, including Link, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, out of the box.
- Expand your customer base: Convert customers who might otherwise abandon their cart with buy now, pay later methods like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay/Clearpay, wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, and local payment methods such as Bancontact in Europe and Alipay in Asia Pacific. Deliver a localized payment experience with out-of-the-box support for localized error messages, right-to-left languages, and automatic adjustment of input fields based on payment method and country.
- Meet existing customer demand and localize the experience: Offer local payment methods, such as Bancontact, Boleto, Cash App Pay, EPS, giropay, iDEAL, Multibanco, OXXO, Przelewy 24, and SEPA Direct Debit.
- Fight fraud: Detect and prevent fraud with Stripe Radar, which offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.
- Accept in-person payments for products and services: Use the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader or get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone, or Tap to Pay on Android.
- Support subscriptions: Support recurring payments with various payment methods via WooCommerce Subscriptions.
- Manage cash flow: Get paid within minutes with Stripe Instant Payouts, if eligible.
- Achieve PCI-DSS compliance with Stripe Elements hosted input fields.
- Support Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).
Stripe is available for store owners and merchants in 46 countries worldwide, with more to come.
Screenshots
With the enhanced checkout from Stripe, you can surface 23 payment methods including buy now, pay later methods; and Link, an accelerated checkout experience. 
Link autofills your customers’ payment information to create an easy and secure checkout experience. 
Convert customers who would usually abandon their cart and increase average order value with buy now, pay later options like Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm. Accept credit and debit card payments from Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and Diners. 
Stripe Radar offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions. 
Accept in-person payments for products and services using the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader. 
Get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone, or Tap to Pay on Android.
FAQ
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In which specific countries is Stripe available?
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Stripe is available in the following countries, with more to come:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Does this require an SSL certificate?
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Yes. In Live Mode, an SSL certificate must be installed on your site to use Stripe. In addition to SSL encryption, Stripe provides an extra JavaScript method to secure card data using Stripe Elements.
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Does this support both production mode and sandbox mode for testing?
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Yes, it does. Both production and test (sandbox) modes are driven by the API keys you use with a checkbox in the admin settings to toggle between both.
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Where can I find documentation?
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Refer to the Stripe WooCommerce Extension documentation for more information, including how to set up and configure the extension.
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Where can I get support or talk to other users?
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If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the Plugin Forum.
Reviews
Intuitive and easy to use. Great support for a free plugin. Works as it should so far
Frequent new bugs appear with nearly every update, often resurfacing recurring issues, like the duplicate issue (duplicate orders, emails, notes etc.), which repeatedly impacts one of the most critical parts of the website—the checkout process.
WTF! Still not able to show Twint during Checkout! It‘s important in Switzerland.
I have no issues with this plugin since 2020, thank you!
During the latest updates, we were concerned about the future use of sources. The work of the developers seems to have paid off, as the migration of sources to paymentMethod is now carried out correctly without any intervention in the code.
After persevering with this plugin over many years, the quality has notably reduced over the past 12 months or so. Several bugs have slipped through the cracks and the developers a missing things. I assume this is due to issues in quality control behind the scenes. Issues on Github remain unfixed after several months, and regression bugs pop up in almost every version.
We’ve finally jumped ship and started using another author’s plugin instead.
Contributors & Developers
“WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
8.9.0 – 2024-11-14
- Update – Enhance webhook processing to enable retrieving orders using payment_intent metadata.
- Dev – Minor updates to the webhook handler class related to payment method names constants.
- Tweak – Improve error message displayed when payment method creation fails in classic checkout.
- Dev – Replace two occurrences of payment method names with their constant equivalents.
- Fix – Hide express checkout when credit card payments are not enabled.
- Fix – Fix issues when detaching payment methods on staging sites (with the new checkout experience enabled).
- Fix – Display a notice if taxes vary by customer’s billing address when checking out using the Stripe Express Checkout Element.
- Tweak – Makes the new Stripe Express Checkout Element enabled by default in new accounts.
- Dev – Add multiple unit tests for the Stripe Express Checkout Element implementation (for both frontend and backend).
- Fix – Check if taxes are enabled when applying ECE tax compatibility check.
- Fix – Fix ECE error when initial address on load is not defined as a shipping zone.
- Fix – Corrected card brand capitalization on the My Account Subscription page.
- Fix – Displays a specific message when an authentication error occurs during checkout for 3DS cards (shortcode version).
- Fix – Show ‘Use a New Payment Method’ radio button for logged in users only when card saving is enabled.
- Fix – Fix the display and usage of the Link payment method on the shortcode checkout page with the Stripe Express Checkout Element.
- Fix – Fix payment methods count on settings page.
- Update – Improve Express Payment button previews on the edit Block Checkout and Cart pages for Google Pay and Apple Pay.
- Tweak – Add error logging in ECE critical Ajax requests.
- Add – Add support for Stripe Link payments via the new Stripe Checkout Element on the block cart and block checkout pages.
- Add – Add support for Stripe Link payments via the new Stripe Checkout Element on the product, cart, checkout and pay for order pages.
- Tweak – Do not load ECE button if the total amount is 0.
- Add – Show ECE button preview on settings page.
- Tweak – Remove the subscription order notes added each time a source wasn’t migrated.
- Tweak – Update ECE default button type.
- Fix – Fix position of ECE button on shortcode cart page.
- Fix – Call ECE specific ‘paymentFailed’ function only when payment request fails.
- Fix – Fix issue in purchasing subscriptions when the store has no shipping options.