How do I enable Stripe Connect Direct Charges

Please note that I do not need to split a cart. The entire payment will be made to a single vendor and one application fee charged.

I have now found that if I disable “3D Secure and SCA” then the option to enable Direct Charges becomes available.

I have now found that if I disable “3D Secure and SCA” then the option to enable Direct Charges becomes available.

– Right, SCA does not support such charges.

I need to use Direct Charges.

* Is SCA a big problem in the real world? Am I suddenly going to find that all my transactions fail? What do your other customers do?

I need to use Direct Charges.

– SCA does not support such charges.

* Is SCA a big problem in the real world? Am I suddenly going to find that all my transactions fail?

– NO, this works fine. First be sure, is SCA is essential for you country?

Also check from Stripe dashboard, why transactions are failed!

Stripe SCA works perfectly.

Thank you for your great advice. Looking in the Stripe dashboard will solve my problem.

I asked Stripe Support and they say they do support Direct Charges with SCA. Is there a “catch” or is Stripe Support wrong?

(11:08:10 PM) James Bayley : Thank you. It would be great to confirm that Direct Charges are incompatible with SCA (or not).
(11:08:21 PM) Raechel: Certainly.
(11:11:55 PM) Raechel: I’m just waiting to hear back from my colleague now.
(11:12:11 PM) James Bayley : thank you
(11:19:37 PM) Raechel: One minute please.
(11:20:22 PM) Raechel: It would actually be possible as payments using Stripe’s payment_intents API to make charges while using 3D secure makes it SCA compliant. So it would work.
(11:23:41 PM) James Bayley: OK. All three major WooCommerce marketplace vendors (40000 markets) think it is not. So there must be a catch somewhere. Does your colleague know why they don’t support Direct Charges and SCA. Perhaps this functionality was only released recently.
(11:24:10 PM) James Bayley : If they don’t then don’t worry I will try to raise with the developers but it is tough getting to them.
(11:27:10 PM) Raechel: Checking.
(11:31:08 PM) Raechel: To clarify quickly, are you asking why Woocommerce doesn’t support this but Stripe does? Because Stripe does.
(11:34:02 PM) James Bayley : Yes. I understand that this is an odd question. But all three major Stripe partners have the same implementation – Direct Charges == No SCA.
(11:37:40 PM) Raechel: Stripe has no insight as to why Woocommerce would have that but Stripe does support it.

I note that if I use Stripe’s own hosted checkout solution I can make Direct Charges and it does support SCA so this will be my fallback if necessary.