WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

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

In which specific countries is Stripe available?

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

Does this require an SSL certificate?

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.

Does this support both production mode and sandbox mode for testing?

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.

Where can I find documentation?

Refer to the Stripe WooCommerce Extension documentation for more information, including how to set up and configure the extension.

Where can I get support or talk to other users?

If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the Plugin Forum.

Reviews

17 aprila, 2025 3 replies
I’ve noticed a few of my WooCommerce sites running this plugin have become painfully slow in the backend—taking 20+ seconds to load pages, open plugins, or edit a product. Disabling Stripe brings everything back to normal. I’m submitting a support ticket, but in the meantime, I’d recommend avoiding the Stripe plugin if you want to maintain a responsive backend experience. And no, I’m not using cheap shared hosting—this is a top-tier VPS. I hope they can improve the performance, as it’s otherwise a well-designed plugin that’s easy to set up and use. UPDATE: Recent plugin update (9.4.1) has improved backend speed so I have adjusted my star rating to reflect this.
17 aprila, 2025 1 reply
On 17th April 2025 the new update slowed down all sites I used the plugin, and I could not enable the payment methods—I tried to re-enable them 10 times. Replaced with a 5-star plugin from another developer.
17 aprila, 2025 4 replies
This morning I installed version 9.4.0, and after that, the website literally stopped working. On one hand, everything became extremely slow, and on the other, the Stripe payment option completely disappeared from the checkout. In my opinion, the developers have seriously messed things up. Тhe plugin urgently needs to be revised.
14 aprila, 2025 2 replies
My site was slowed to a crawl, 15-20 seconds for a product page to load. Ran through all the checks. The last thing I suspected was it to be a plugin I needed to make a sale. After deactivating the Stripe plugin the site returned to normal, so I fired up the CC payments by PayPal and carried on. I have had no issues for the past several years, but I run a business and don’t have the luxury of waiting for these things to be sorted.
17 marca, 2025 1 reply
Support is actually making a good job of making this plugin work in various contexts, which is not easy given the amount of configurations that exist. However, I’d like to see more testing upon each update, and releases early in the week rather than at the end of the week, especially for a payment plugin. Just a bit more organization and to me it’ll be 5 stars!
13 februarja, 2025 1 reply
After the transaction succeed on checkout page, the user is not redirected to success page but remains on checkout page. This means that user can make another transaction since he is not sure. It is possible to make as many transactions as you wish. So, we must return money to customers bank accounts constantly.
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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

9.4.1 – 2025-04-17

  • Dev – Forces rollback of version 9.4.0.

See changelog for all versions.