Changing consumer behavior has resulted in an explosion of payment methods and experiences, which are great for increasing conversion and lowering costs—but can be difficult for businesses to maintain. Give customers a best-in-class checkout experience while you remain focused on your core business. This is the official plugin created by Stripe and WooCommerce.

Drive 11.9% in revenue with an optimized checkout experience from Stripe

The enhanced checkout experience from Stripe can help customers:

• Boost conversion: Provide an optimal experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop with a responsive checkout, and offer 23 payment methods, including Link, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, out of the box.
• Expand your customer base: Convert customers who might otherwise abandon their cart with buy now, pay later methods like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay/Clearpay, wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, and local payment methods such as Bancontact in Europe and Alipay in Asia Pacific. Deliver a localized payment experience with out-of-the-box support for localized error messages, right-to-left languages, and automatic adjustment of input fields based on payment method and country.
• Meet existing customer demand and localize the experience: Offer local payment methods, such as ACH Direct Debit, Bacs Direct Debit, Bancontact, BECS Direct Debit, BLIK, Boleto, Cash App Pay, EPS, iDEAL, Multibanco, OXXO, Pre-authorized debit payments, Przelewy 24, and SEPA Direct Debit, and let customers pay in their local currency across 150+ countries with Adaptive Pricing.
• Fight fraud: Detect and prevent fraud with Stripe Radar, which offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.
• Accept in-person payments for products and services: Use the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader or get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone, or Tap to Pay on Android, with WooCommerce POS in the free WooCommerce mobile app.
• Support subscriptions: Support recurring payments with various payment methods via WooCommerce Subscriptions.
• Manage cash flow: Get paid within minutes with Stripe Instant Payouts, if eligible.
• Achieve PCI-DSS compliance with Stripe Elements hosted input fields.
• Support Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).

Stripe is available for store owners and merchants in 46 countries worldwide, with more to come.

Compatibility Notes

The following items note specific versions that include important changes, features, or deprecations.

• 11.1.0
  • Sofort is no longer offered at checkout, since Stripe discontinued it on March 31, 2025; existing Sofort orders can still be refunded and Sofort-initiated subscriptions keep renewing
• 11.0.0
  • Express checkout merges the wc_stripe_express_checkout_normalize_address filter result over the address it sent; removing a field no longer clears it, return an empty string instead
• 10.9.1
  • Some express checkout helpers now require the caller to specify whether they are in the WooCommerce Cart context
• 10.9.0
  • Express checkout processes Classic Checkout custom fields by default (opt out via the wc_stripe_express_checkout_enable_classic_checkout_custom_fields filter)
• 10.8.0
  • Optimized Checkout Suite enabled by default for eligible existing stores
  • Adaptive Pricing enabled by default for eligible existing stores
  • Removed deprecated code and constants from 10.2.0 and before – Full list – PR #5294
• 10.7.0
  • Optimized Checkout Suite re-enabled by default for new installs
  • Adaptive Pricing enabled by default for new installs
  • Removed deprecated backend methods that called wc_deprecated_function – Full list – PR #5066
• 10.6.0
  • Adaptive Pricing available
• 10.4.0
  • Optimized Checkout Suite no longer enabled by default for new installs
  • Removed the main Payment Request Buttons backend class, WC_Stripe_Payment_Request, which was deprecated in 10.2.0
  • Removed the deprecated WC_Stripe_Apple_Pay class
• 10.3.0
  • Removed legacy checkout payment method classes and settings retrieval methods
• 10.2.0
  • Optimized Checkout Suite enabled by default for all new installations
  • Add minimum transaction amounts for BRL, INR, NZD, THB, CZK, HUF, AED, MYR, PLN, RON
• 10.1.0
  • Improved express checkout address handling for countries without state/postal codes
• 10.0.0
  • Payment Request Buttons are fully replaced by Express Checkout
  • Legacy Checkout is fully deprecated and no longer available
• 9.8.0
  • Optimized Checkout Suite available via a configuration setting
  • We will disable the Affirm or Klarna payment methods if the respective official plugin is enabled
• 9.7.0
  • Improved express checkout support for custom checkout fields
  • Validate customer details against required billing fields from checkout before sending to Stripe
• 9.6.0
  • Legacy checkout deprecated by default
  • Voucher payment methods can be used for subscription purchases when manual renewals are available
  • Include extension data from block checkout for express checkout orders
  • Add hooks to support custom checkout fields for Classic Checkout
• 9.5.0
  • Synchronize payment methods with Stripe
  • Support Pre-Authorized Debit (PAD) in Canada and the US
  • Support BLIK in Poland and from other EU countries
  • Support BECS Direct Debit payments in Australia

1. 

   With the enhanced checkout from Stripe, you can surface 23 payment methods including buy now, pay later methods; and Link, an accelerated checkout experience.

2. 

   Link autofills your customers’ payment information to create an easy and secure checkout experience.

3. 

   Convert customers who would usually abandon their cart and increase average order value with buy now, pay later options like Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm. Accept credit and debit card payments from Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and Diners.

4. 

   Stripe Radar offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.

5. 

   Accept in-person payments for products and services using the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader.

6. 

   Get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone, or Tap to Pay on Android.

11.1.1 – 2026-10-16

Important Fixes and Updates

• Fix – Stop blocking non-Stripe payment gateways on the Pay for Order, change payment method, and add payment method pages

11.1.0 – 2026-10-13

New Features

• Add – Automatically configure test mode when onboarding to a live account

Important Fixes and Updates

• Remove – Stop offering Sofort at checkout (discontinued by Stripe on March 31, 2025); refunds and subscription renewals for existing Sofort orders keep working
• Fix – Show BLIK and ACSS payment methods at checkout when Optimized Checkout Suite is enabled
• Fix – When checking if unpaid orders should be canceled, get the Stripe payment status, and update orders with Stripe payment details
• Fix – Preserve manually configured webhooks during automatic reconfiguration and warn when the configured webhook no longer exists
• Fix – Ensure retry with a saved payment method works after a declined Adaptive Pricing payment attempt on Classic Checkout
• Fix – Allow Classic Checkout payments without a WooCommerce billing country field when Adaptive Pricing is enabled
• Fix – Ignore Checkout Session failure webhooks after an order switches to another payment gateway
• Fix – Prevent dropped webhooks, double processing, and skipped pre-order handling when requests race for the order payment lock
• Fix – Show an error before submission when required custom checkout fields are empty in Classic Checkout
• Fix – Allow payment methods to be enabled when they support a currency supplied by a multi-currency plugin
• Fix – Prevent express checkout wallets from failing when rounded display items exceed the payment total
• Fix – Accept shipping addresses in the express checkout wallet sheet for free trial subscription carts whose shipping is charged with the recurring payments
• Fix – Point a saved Stripe Link payment method at the newest card selection when the customer re-enrolls through Link, so subscription renewals stop charging the replaced card
• Fix – Retry matching a completed Adaptive Pricing checkout session to its order instead of giving up after the first attempt
• Fix – Show the on-page 3D Secure authentication modal instead of a full-page redirect for card payments under Optimized Checkout with Dynamic Payment Methods
• Fix – Stop refusing express checkout orders over required classic custom checkout fields on stores whose checkout page uses the checkout block and cannot render them
• Fix – Remove account password data that may have been stored in order metadata by express checkout in version 10.9.0
• Fix – Allow Klarna purchases for Puerto Rico shoppers, and refine billing country availability logic
• Fix – Send a return URL when the browser confirms an express checkout (Apple Pay, Google Pay) or 3D Secure card payment, so a payment that needs a redirect can complete
• Fix – Allow retries with an express wallet or saved card after a declined card under Optimized Checkout with Dynamic Payment Methods
• Update – Ensure that application fees are not sent to Stripe for OAuth-connected accounts

Other Fixes and Updates

• Fix – Return an error response when a Payment Method Configuration update fails in settings, so the frontend correctly displays an error instead of a false success notice
• Update – Show the specific Stripe error reason in the settings save notice when a Payment Method Configuration update is rejected
• Fix – Show the correct guidance when a subscription renewal fails because its Stripe mandate is invalid
• Fix – Preselect the customer’s default saved Stripe payment method within the active gateway in Blocks checkout
• Fix – Stop two requests from reclaiming the same expired Optimized Checkout or Agentic Commerce sync lock
• Fix – Ensure the current Payment Method Configuration is specified for Optimized Checkout Suite and Adaptive Pricing
• Fix – Show negative order fees as negative line items in Express Checkout on the Pay for Order page
• Fix – Show coupon discounts as negative line items in Express Checkout on classic cart and checkout pages
• Fix – Show negative cart fees (e.g. a discount extension applying its discount as a fee) as negative line items in Express Checkout on classic cart page
• Fix – Stop disabling Level 3 data account-wide when Stripe rejects it for a request that declares a non-card payment method
• Fix – Open testing and payment settings documentation links in new tabs
• Fix – Show a useful error when a Stripe connection cannot start
• Fix – Link to checkout when missing required custom fields block express checkout on other pages
• Fix – Ensure that switching mode doesn’t show an incorrect payment method save error
• Fix – Add robust checks against order attribution Javascript not being fully loaded in block checkout
• Fix – Remove the duplicated period in the webhook status message when webhooks are pending
• Update – Reduce the size of the express checkout JS bundle
• Update – Reduce the size of the Stripe settings JS bundles by loading only the Gridicons they use
• Update – Improve checks in the wallet payment confirmation flow
• Update – Include the connected Stripe account ID in the account connection, account disconnection, and key update events sent when usage tracking is enabled
• Update – Link the WooCommerce POS page from the in-person payments description in the readme

Internal Changes and Upcoming Features

• Add – Show the originating AI agent in the WooCommerce order Origin column for Agentic Commerce orders
• Add – Agentic Commerce: add merchant settings to exclude add-on/configurator products from the feed or redirect shoppers to the store to check out, with per-product advisories in the feed preview
• Fix – Reject agentic checkout line items with a zero or negative quantity, or a negative amount, when building shipping packages, instead of quoting rates from corrupted totals
• Fix – Include cart contents in agentic checkout shipping calculations so content-dependent shipping methods such as table rate and weight-based return accurate rates
• Tweak – Agentic Commerce: surface shipping zones with no flat-rate method (which contribute no shipping to the feed) in the feed preview and logs
• Dev – Add E2E coverage for express checkout with free trial subscriptions, with and without shipping, including completing the purchase with Link
• Dev – Block outbound HTTP requests from unit tests
• Dev – Reduce Blocks Javascript by moving payment method icon styles into CSS
• Dev – Mark the Sofort and Giropay payment method classes and constants as deprecated ahead of their removal
• Dev – Make e2e tests runnable from Quality Insights Toolkit (QIT)
• Dev – Update PHPCS rules and improve alignment with WordPress plugin rules

See changelog for full details across versions.