Issues with WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
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In testing your plugin, I have just discovered several issues relating to processing payments with Stripe. I am currently using the WooCommerce Stripe gateway plugin from WooThemes. We have the Saved Cards option enabled to allow Stripe to store the customer cards for reuse on future orders. With this option activated, entering payment via a credit card using your plugin saves the customer’s card to the account of the ADMIN WHO IS LOGGED IN and who is placing the manual order in the backend. This is obviously a security issue because admins should not store customer cards in their own accounts.
I did a test order as a guest. After processing the order, the card I used was saved and shows under the My Account section when I’m logged in as the Admin. While I can delete any cards listed under my admin account, the cards should not be saved to admin accounts by default when using your Phone Payments plugin. I guess that a solution for this would be for us to disable the Saved Cards option in the Stripe plugin but then our customers would lose the convenience of using their saved cards.
Placing an order for a customer who is already a registered user also does the same thing. When I reach the screen to pay for the order, the cards saved in my own admin account are displayed and not cards from the registered customer. Placing an order saves the customer’s cards to our Admin account.
In addition, I refunded the amount for the test card back to the credit card I used as a guest. I used a different email address on the test order than the one registered with my Admin My Account. The Stripe payment receipt and Stripe refund notification emails I received from Stripe were sent to my email address for my Admin WP account and not to the email address used on the test order. That being the case, it appears that customers won’t receive the Stripe receipts or refund notifications after an order is placed if processed manually.
WooCommerce order/refund notifications are delivered to the address used on the test order so that part works as it should. When a new card is used and saved to Stripe, Stripe apparently associates the card data with the logged in user’s email address and not the email address entered on the order in the backend.
Any ideas for a solution to this problem would be most appreciated. Thank you.
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