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