WooCommerce payments in growing economies Hannah Swain WooCommerce Happiness Engineer @hannahswaineu
WooCommerce payments in growing
economiesHannah Swain
WooCommerce Happiness Engineer@hannahswaineu
Introduction to WooCommerce
With 20,899,487 downloads, WooCommerce powers over
28% of all online stores.
WooCommerce checkout process
Add product to cart
Take a look at the cart
Proceed to checkout
to pay
Fill in address, choose shipping
and payment
(Gateway dependent: complete payment)
Receive and confirm order
Ship order
Choosing a payment gateway
Payment gateway considerations
• E-commerce shop location
• Cost
• Security
• Single point of failure
Payment gateways in WooCommerce
Manual gateways
• Bank transfer
• Cheque
• Cash on delivery (CoD)
Automated gateways
• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Direct debit
Payment gateways available in Nigeria
Manual gateways
• Bank transfer
• Mobile Money
• Cash on delivery (CoD)
Automated gateways
• Interswitch
• Paga
• SimplePay
• VoguePay
Protecting your customers’ dataRespect your customers’ data and
treat it as your own.
Don’t ever save unencrypted customer credit cards on your site.
SSLEncrypt information for secure transmission
Choose extensions from trustworthy sources
Helpful plugins
Things to think about
• Prevention
• Scans
• Backups
Recommended plugins
• Jetpack
• Wordfence
• Sucuri
tl;dr• WooCommerce lets you sell all the things
via WordPress
• Consider location, cost and security when choosing a gateway plugin
• Protect your customers’ data by using SSL, choosing extensions from trustworthy sources and installing preventative plugins