=== Express Payment For Stripe ===
Contributors: payaddons, itstripe
Tags: credit card, stripe, payment, ach, alipay, wechat pay, contact form 7, woocommerce
Requires at least: 4.9
Tested up to: 7.0
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 1.28.2
License: GPL v2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Shipping with a variety of standalone Stripe payment widgets and woocommerce addon, including options for credit cards, Alipay and WeChat pay, and ACH transfers, can be easily integrated into your page by simply choosing the appropriate shortcode.

== Description ==

Accept a wide range of payment methods, including Visa, MasterCard, Alipay, WeChat, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Microsoft Pay, Bancontact, FPX, EPS, SEPA, Giropay, Sofort, iDeal, and more, to build your payment page or woocommerce checkout page in minutes without any coding knowledge.

We provide a variety of built-in payment widgets, called 'Elements', for you to easily choose and add as shortcodes. These widgets can be used for customers from countries such as Europe, China, and Japan.

### Important Note

To integrate Stripe with specific platforms, please use our dedicated plugins:

👉 WooCommerce Integration: [WooCommerce Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/payment-addons-for-woocommerce/)

👉 Elementor Integration: [Elementor Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pay-addons-for-elementor/)

👉 Contact Form 7 Integration: [Contact Form 7 Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/accept-stripe-for-contact-form-7/)

If none of these apply to your needs, you may proceed with evaluating this plugin.

### Features
* Payment methods include Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard), SEPA, Sofort, iDeal, Giropay, FPX, P24, Alipay, and WeChat Pay.
* Variety of standalone built-in free widgets for one-time payments, including options for buttons, donations, custom amounts, products, and CF7 redirections.
* Automatically collect tax on Checkout based on customer location.
* Multi currencies support for more payment methods like WeChat pay, Alipay, etc.
* Use URL parameters to set custom values for such as amount, currency, metadata.
* Customize confirmation page.
* Elementor integration.
* 9 built-in themes.
* One-Click import demos.
* **[Premium]** Woocommerce stripe express checkout. (All payment methods are merged into one by using Stripe Payment Elements)
* **[Premium]** Standalone built-in widgets for digital wallet and form: Payment Form, Alipay, WeChat and Apple Pay, Google Pay, Microsoft Pay, and more.
* **[Premium]** Payment link for one-time and subscription.
* **[Premium]** Tax collect, coupon code support.
* **[Premium]** Payment success&failed email notifications and customer invoice email.
* **[Premium]** One-To-One email support for our users.
* **[Premium]** Woocommerce integration addon with over 30+ payment methods supported 🎉

### Highlight Features For Free

#### Common usages
As a website owner:
* If you want to put a payment button on any pages or posts, choose one-time => fixed amount button.
* If you want your customer to pay as they want on any pages or posts, choose one-time => custom amount button.
* If you want to collect any donations on any pages or posts, choose one-time => donation button.
* If you are looking for a complex payment form like booking an event, choose one-time => CF7 redirection.
* If your customers are coming from china, choose Digital Wallet => WeChat/Alipay.

### Highlight Features For Premium
Our team aims to provide regular support for this plugin on the WordPress.org forums. But please understand that we do prioritize our premium support. This one-on-one email support is available to people who bought Premium.

### Woocommerce Support (Premium only 🎉)

Note: You can still purchase this premium plugin for this feature, however we recommend trying our dedicated woocommerce plugin [WooCommerce Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/payment-addons-for-woocommerce/)

- Stripe Elements
We utilize Stripe Elements, a collection of pre-designed UI components that streamline the checkout process. Unlike other Stripe plugins for WooCommerce, our solution eliminates the need to configure each payment method individually. Instead, you can easily enable supported payment methods based on your currency and select a visually appealing UI, such as Tab or Card style, Stripe or Night mode, Flat mode, and more.

[Setup Woocommerce Stripe Elements Checkout](https://woo-docs.payaddons.com/payment-methods/checkout-form-pro)

- Stripe Checkout Redirect
Redirect to a secure Stripe Checkout page to complete transactions. This PCI-compliant hosted checkout meets industry security standards and supports numerous payment methods on one screen, providing a streamlined payment experience for your customers.

[Setup Woocommerce Stripe Redirect](https://woo-docs.payaddons.com/payment-methods/checkout-redirect)

> This way the checkout would look a lot more trustworthy to customers when being redirected to stripes own checkout page than giving their credit card details to “some random” site.

- Add [WooCommerce Subscriptions](https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/) support for Stripe Checkout Redirect.

### Collect Dynamic Fields from URL Parameters
This plugin feature allows you to collect dynamic fields from URL parameters. To use this feature, follow these steps:
1. Enable the "Enable Url Params" option when creating an element short-code.
2. Append the override URL parameters to the page that includes the element.

The following parameters are currently supported to override element settings:
`
currency: Choose from usd, eur, aud, cad, cny, gbp, hkd, jpy, myr
amount: Enter any digital number.
quantity: Set the quantity for one-time type elements.
[name]: Set the product name for one-time type elements. Note that the brackets are required for this term.
metadata: Add metadata for the element.
price: Use only for price IDs created in the Stripe dashboard. Format the price as "price_xxx_xx".
`

Here are some examples of how to use these parameters:
`
https://example.com/checkout?currency=eur&amount=199

https://example.com/checkout?currency=eur&amount=199&quantity=2&[name]=myproduct&metadata.order=1234&metadata.note=xxx
`

#### Payment Links
With Payment Links, you can create a payment page and share a link to it with your customers. You can share the link as many times as you want on social media, in emails, or through any other channel. Also, you can use them as an image link button or even insert them into any pricing table. 

Payment Links supports over 20 payment methods—including credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. The payment page is translated into over 30 languages and automatically matches your customer’s preferred browser language.

### Contact Form 7 Stripe Integration (Free)
The above standalone payment widgets might be not enough to customize fields, people always want to attach more fields or information shipping with the payment, no matter if these fields are static or collected by customers.

As #1 form builder plugin with over 5 million installations, we do like Contact Form 7, not just popular, but simple, flexible, etc...

Now, we provide a `CF7 Redirection` virtual button to link into a cf7 form. When customers submit the form, the CF7 original sending email submission does its own job, once its success, the payment workflow will be triggered then. After the payment, you should see these fields information in your payment details' metadata, never miss them.

Note: we have a dedicated plugin for CF7 right now. Comparing the stripe checkout redirection only in this plugin, that plugin supports both credit card field and also multiple payment methods field as well. please check it out on https://wordpress.org/plugins/accept-stripe-for-contact-form-7

#### Customize email notifications
You can turn on/off three kinds of email notifications for each transfer: payment success, failed, customer invoice. You can design your email templates with built-in placeholder fields like amount, currency, customer email, address, etc...

[Documentation](https://docs.itstripe.com/tutorial/setup-email/)

#### China digital payment: Alipay & WeChat
Both Alipay & WeChat Pay are digital wallet in China that has more than a billion active users worldwide. If your business is in China, then good for you, from a simple payment button to a complex form, we provide multiple elements for your customer to finish the payment easily.

== External services ==
This plugin connects to external services to provide payment processing and template functionality.

**Stripe Payment Processing**
The plugin connects to Stripe's API (https://api.stripe.com/v1/) to process payments and manage transactions. - JavaScript library: https://js.stripe.com/v3. Service provider: Stripe, Inc.

No personal data is transmitted to these services without user consent during payment processing or template requests.

Development GitHub Community, please refer to [here](https://github.com/payaddons/wp-stripe-express)

## ABOUT US ##

We provide professional Stripe payment solutions for WordPress, with the following core products:

* **Elementor Stripe Payment**
Seamlessly integrate customized Stripe-powered payment forms into your Elementor site. Sell products, services, accept donations, and more through intuitive checkout experiences. [Elementor Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pay-addons-for-elementor/) 

* **Contact form 7 Stripe Payment**
Seamlessly integrate customized Stripe-powered payment forms into your Contact Form 7. Sell products, services, accept donations, and more through intuitive checkout experiences. [Contact Form 7 Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/accept-stripe-for-contact-form-7/) 

* **WooCommerce Stripe Payment**
WooCommerce Stripe addon is a payment gateway for WooCommerce. With just a single configuration, unlock access to over 30 secure and globally recognized payment methods, including Credit Cards, Google Pay, ApplePay, WeChat Pay, Alipay, Afterpay, ACH, Klarna, iDEAL, FPX, Grabpay, OXXO, Multibanco, Bancontact, EPS, P24, Giropay, Affirm, and more. [WooCommerce Stripe Payment](https://wordpress.org/plugins/payment-addons-for-woocommerce/)

* **Stripe Express Payment**
Embed standalone variety of built-in stripe payment widgets, forms anywhere on your site using easy shortcodes, No store required to collect instant payments. [Stripe Express](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-stripe-express/)

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Who should use this plugin? =
You don’t need an entire eCommerce store to accept payments on your site and you have a product or service to offer and simply want to automate sales.

= Does this require an SSL certificate? =

Yes! In Live Mode, an SSL certificate must be installed on your site to use Stripe. In addition to SSL encryption, Stripe provides an extra JavaScript method to secure card data using [Stripe Elements](https://stripe.com/elements).

= Does this support both production mode and sandbox mode for testing? =

Yes, it does - production and Test (sandbox) mode is driven by the API keys you use with a checkbox in the admin settings to toggle between both.

= Can I disable WP REST API? =
No, this plugin is using WP REST API. So please make sure it is opening or just add stripe-express API into the whitelist by some plugins like [disable-json-api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-json-api/).

== Screenshots ==
1. payment elements 
2. payment link
3. woocommerce gateway
4. setting

== Upgrade Notice ==
None.