Check Payments

Check payments is a built-in WooCommerce payment gateway that allows customers to place orders and pay offline by check. This guide covers how to activate and configure check payments on your store.

Orders placed with check payments remain in On hold status until you verify that the payment has cleared in your bank account. Before shipping an order and changing its status to Processing or Completed, confirm that the funds are in your account. For more information, see Managing orders.

Note: Check payments was called “Cheque” prior to WooCommerce 3.3.

Set up and configure check payments

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Follow the steps below to activate check payments and configure the settings your customers see at checkout:

  1. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Take offline payments.
  2. Click the Enable button next to Check payments.
  3. Click the Manage button to open the check payments configuration settings.
The offline payments screen showing the Enable and Manage buttons for check payments.
  1. Configure each setting:
    • Enable/Disable – Toggle check payments on or off.
    • Title – Enter the payment method name that customers see during checkout.
    • Description – Add a message that displays when customers select check payments at checkout.
    • Instructions – Provide details on how to send a check, such as the payee name and mailing address. These instructions appear on the order thank-you page and in the order confirmation email.
  2. Click Save changes.
The check payments settings page showing Title, Description, and Instructions fields.

Questions and support

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Do you still have questions and need assistance? 

This documentation is about the free, core WooCommerce plugin, for which support is provided in our community forums on WordPress.org. By searching this forum, you’ll often find that your question has been asked and answered before.

If you haven’t created a WordPress.org account to use the forums, here’s how.

  • If you’re looking to extend the core functionality shown here, we recommend reviewing available extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace.
  • Need ongoing advanced support or a customization built for WooCommerce? Hire a Woo Agency Partner.
  • Are you a developer building your own WooCommerce integration or extension? Check our Developer Resources.

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