Legacy checkout experience guide

As of version 9.6, the legacy checkout experience has been replaced by the standard checkout experience.

Please visit Updated Stripe Checkout Experience – mid-2025 for more details.

NOTE: The legacy checkout experience is considered obsolete and will not be fully supported after October 29, 2024. We strongly suggest using the standard checkout experience to avoid disruption to your customers and to gain access to our entire collection of supported payment methods.

Disadvantages

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The limitations of using the legacy checkout experience are numerous. They include, but may not be limited to the following:

You will only be able to accept cards. Additional payment methods will not work.
Customers will be unable to choose their preferred card brand during checkout, which is a potential violation of EU Regulation 2015/751.
Link by Stripe will show an autofill button that cannot be hidden or disabled.

You will see a constant banner in the plugin settings asking you to upgrade.

Enabling (Not Recommended)

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Before enabling the deprecated legacy checkout, we highly suggest readding all of the information on this page so that you’re aware of the limitations that come along with using it.

Crucially, you should make sure that no customers are paying with any additional payment methods, as those will not work with legacy checkout.

If you’ve done that, you can enable to legacy checkout like so:

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Stripe > Settings.
Scroll down to the Advanced Settings section.
Check the “Enable the legacy checkout experience” box.
Click Save Changes at the bottom.

Additional settings

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The legacy checkout adds a setting allowing you to show the credit card entry form as a single line, provided you uncheck the Enable separate credit card form box.