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• What happens to a WooPayments account during a site migration?

  During the lifetime of your business, you may migrate your site between hosts or servers. You may also move your site between a staging environment to production multiple times. If a site is migrated while using WooPayments, this could activate Safe Mode or it could result in the WooPayments account not carrying over to the […]

• WooPayments: Fraud Protection

  From version 5.9.0, WooPayments offers a more configurable fraud protection experience for merchants. This helps you avoid disputes by setting the security and fraud protection risk level that best suits your business. This page explains how fraud protection works, what the various settings do, and how they interact with incoming orders from your customers. How […]

• WooPayments: Gradual signup

  Starting with WooPayments version 6.0.0, we began offering a different signup process called “gradual signup.” With gradual signup, a small portion of new merchants will be offered a more incremental way of verifying their information so that they can take card payments more quickly than was previously possible. How is gradual signup different? Gradual signup […]

• WooPayments: Pricing changes for accounts in the EEA and the UK

  There are some changes to base fee calculations and how transactions from buyers are classified. These changes affect merchants based in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK). What is changing? We are updating the classification between the EEA and the UK to reflect the reality that transactions between the UK and […]

• WooPayments: Stripe Billing for subscriptions

  Besides basic compatibility with Woo Subscriptions, WooPayments also offers one additional feature to Woo Subscriptions users based in the United States: the ability to utilize a billing engine powered by our payments partner, Stripe. This is called Stripe Billing. Billing engines With the Woo Subscriptions extension, automatic recurring payments are initiated by your WooCommerce site […]

• WooPayments Documentation

  Spanish version of this page | Aquí puedes encontrar la versión en español de esta página. Welcome to the WooPayments documentation! Here you can find all sorts of helpful information about running your business website and taking payments. Please see the sections below for more information about what WooPayments can do. Startup Guide The Startup Guide […]

• Accepting Google Pay with WooPayments

  WooPayments provides your store with Google Pay, which makes it easier for customers to checkout quickly using their saved Google account details. This document describes how to set up, test, and troubleshoot the Google Pay feature in WooPayments. Setting up Google Pay via WooPayments To enable Google Pay: These steps will communicate to our payment […]

• Authorize and capture

  Card transactions occur very quickly, which is what makes them so convenient for day-to-day purchases. In fact, they happen so fast that many people don’t realize that there are actually two events taking place: an authorization and a capture. By default, WooPayments will perform the authorization and capture at the same time. However, by enabling […]

• Can I change the title of the payment gateway shown during checkout?

  Yes, the “Credit card / debit card” text shown during checkout can be changed with many free translation plugins, such as Say What or Loco Translate. In fact, almost any string can be changed by using the text domain woocommerce-payments. Currently, in Loco Translate, when adding a language/translation within WooPayments, the “system” location has to […]

• Can I sell alcohol with WooPayments?

  If your business sells alcohol to customers in Canada or the U.S., you must contact support for approval. We try to review all requests for approval within 7 business days, and we reserve the right to approve or reject merchants at our discretion. For merchants in other countries, our approval is not required, but you […]