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 ACH Direct Debit, Bacs Direct Debit, Bancontact, BECS Direct Debit, BLIK, Boleto, Cash App Pay, EPS, iDEAL, Multibanco, OXXO, Pre-authorized debit payments, 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.
Compatibility Notes
The following items note specific versions that include important changes, features, or deprecations.
- 10.6.0
- Adaptive Pricing available
- 10.4.0
- Optimized Checkout Suite no longer enabled by default for new installs
- Removed the main Payment Request Buttons backend class, WC_Stripe_Payment_Request, which was deprecated in 10.2.0
- Removed the deprecated WC_Stripe_Apple_Pay class
- 10.3.0
- Removed legacy checkout payment method classes and settings retrieval methods
- 10.2.0
- Optimized Checkout Suite enabled by default for all new installations
- Add minimum transaction amounts for BRL, INR, NZD, THB, CZK, HUF, AED, MYR, PLN, RON
- 10.1.0
- Improved express checkout address handling for countries without state/postal codes
- 10.0.0
- Payment Request Buttons are fully replaced by Express Checkout
- Legacy Checkout is fully deprecated and no longer available
- 9.8.0
- Optimized Checkout Suite available via a configuration setting
- We will disable the Affirm or Klarna payment methods if the respective official plugin is enabled
- 9.7.0
- Improved express checkout support for custom checkout fields
- Validate customer details against required billing fields from checkout before sending to Stripe
- 9.6.0
- Legacy checkout deprecated by default
- Voucher payment methods can be used for subscription purchases when manual renewals are available
- Include extension data from block checkout for express checkout orders
- Add hooks to support custom checkout fields for classic checkout
- 9.5.0
- Synchronize payment methods with Stripe
- Support Pre-Authorized Debit (PAD) in Canada and the US
- Support BLIK in Poland and from other EU countries
- Support BECS Direct Debit payments in Australia
