About Payment methods

Payment methods around the world

Which payment methods should you offer in your store? First of all, there's no best answer to this question. Looking at the payment solutions that are available worldwide, you might be surprised. There are literally hundreds of possibilities. When speaking of payment methods, we distinguish between the following types: Online or onsite methods The transaction is done online immediately at the moment of creating the order by your customer. Payment by credit card or PayPal are examples .

Shipping methods and prices

Just as with Payment Methods, we also need to think about the shipping methods we are going to offer to our customers. Where are we going to ship to? Shipping Method Do we charge our customers for it and if yes, does the amount depend on the shipping address, the weight of the products or both? Also here we have to think about several aspects: Which carrier(s) are we going to use? Is there any integration .

Setting up Stripe

Stripe as a payment method Stripe is a payment method created for software developers. Meanwhile, the service became more mature and is now available in more than 20 countries, among which the USA, Australia, and a part of Western Europe. To be able to use Stripe, your website must use an SSL certificate. Stripe in a production environment Without it, you cannot use Stripe in a production environment. If you'd like to receive more information on SSL: your .

The Checkout Settings Tab

Moving on to the Checkout settings tab, we see again several sublevels. For this moment, we'll only discuss the Checkout Options. All other panels contain setup information about specific payment methods. More on choosing and configuring payment methods will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 4, Payments, Shipping, and Coupons: The Checkout Options are as follows: First, decide if you want to Enable the use of coupons in your store. Using coupons gives a .

Installing WooCommerce

Installing a plugin is a fairly simple task: Click on Plugins in the menu on the left and click on Add New. Next, simply enter WooCommerce in the Search Plugins field and hit Enter. Verify if the correct plugin is shown on top and click Install Now. Over time results will vary, but the WooCommerce plugin itself should always appear on top. Click on Activate Plugin. Note that in the shown screenshot, we're installing .

What you need to know about credit cards

PCI compliance When you want to accept credit cards in your store, you'll soon hear something about PCI compliance. The issue is: if you let your customers enter their credit card details directly on your website, you must be PCI compliant. The downside is that getting your website PCI compliant is difficult to reach. If you'd like to know more about this subject, the following website may be useful: http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/ So, how are we going to .