When it comes to an online store or E-commerce platform. Then security is the first thing that comes to your mind. As there will be thousands of transactions happening by customers on an online store, it is very important to use secure payment gateways to make your online store resilient and private.

“If there is no privacy and security, there will be no customers”.

Let us discuss the two most commonly used payment solutions that growing very fast in the world of E-commerce platforms and how you can set up these two payment gateways into your WordPress online store. but before proceeding, it is very important to know your integrated payment solutions service for better understanding.

1. Stripe

Stripe is a well-known and secure payment solution and it is very popular for startups and new businesses. And it is cheaper than other payment gateways. Stripe is easy to use and reliable because stripe can be used by a non-technical person and a person doesn’t need to redirect back to make a stripe account and its access fund time is a maximum of 2 days. While PayPal access fund time is immediate.

2. PayPal

PayPal is also a well-known and secure payment solution and it is also one of the best services in the E-commerce industry. Its name is very popular with many e-commerce companies and industries. It is used to receive online payments that visitors or customers do into your online store. There are over 267 million accounts of customers who use PayPal including merchants. To set up PayPal to your online store, a person should have technical knowledge. It also requires page redirection to create a PayPal account.

Here are the steps on how you can set up PayPal and Stripe payment solution services into your WordPress store.

Setting up PayPal to woo commerce:

Let us have a look at how you can set up PayPal into woo commerce:

Step 1: Create a PayPal account

At first, all you have to do is to create a PayPal account and for that, you have to go to PayPal’s website https://www.paypal.com/, and then click “signup” for your account. After that, you will see a popup window that will say “choose account type”.

There will be two options:

1. Personal Account              2. Business Account.

Select “Business Account” as you are going to integrate your account into your woo commerce store. Add your email and password and other business information such as “Business contact” and “Business Address” then click on “Agree and Continue” after that you will see another form that will say “Describe your business”, fill them out and click on “Continue”, then you are good to go.

Step 2: Confirm and set up a PayPal account

You will then receive an email, open it and click on the “Get started” button. It will confirm you and register you as a PayPal account holder. After that again go back to your PayPal account on the PayPal website and add your bank account to receive payments. For that, you will have to open “PayPal account” then go “Account setup” and then you will see “Link your bank account”, click this then “select your bank account” from the list. Add your bank account details then you will receive a confirmation message, click the “Agree and Link” button and you are good to go.

Step 3: Integrate your PayPal account into your woo-commerce website

Setting up your PayPal account to woo-commerce is not that hard. All you need to do is to open your “WordPress Admin Dashboard”. There you will see the “Woo commerce” dropdown. Open that drop down and you will see the “Settings” option. After that, you will see the “Settings” page with some other options such as “Podcasts”, “Shipping”, “Payments” etc. Click on “Payments”. On the “Payments” page you will many other payment options by default like “PayPal”, “Direct bank transfer”, “Cash on delivery” etc. On the other side of this, you will be able to see a button called “Setup”. Click that button and you will be able to see a PayPal form that is already pre-filled, you just need to click the check box which says “Enable PayPal standard” and enter your “PayPal Email”. That’s it!

You are all set to receive your payments from your woo commerce store.

Setting up Stripe to woo commerce:

First of all, it is important that before setting up stripe into your WordPress “SSL is required” to process secure payments because stripe allows to checkout without using “PayPal”.

Let us have a look at how you can set up Stripe into woo commerce:

Step 1: Installation of Stripe plugin

The first thing all you need is to install your stripe plugin and for that open your “WordPress Admin Dashboard”. There you will see the “Plugin” link to the sidebar. Click that link, a dropdown will appear. Select the “Add new” option from the dropdown. You will then see “Stripe setup” which says “WP simple pay lite for Stripe”, next to this there is an install button. Click that and install your “Stripe payment gateway”.

Step 2: Setting up the Stripe API key

Then you will need to set up your Stripe API key which you will get from your Stripe Account. To set up your Strip API key, open “WordPress Admin dashboard” and at last you will see an option for your previously installed plugin settings called “Simple pay lite”. Click that settings, a form will appear and there will two tabs, “Stripe key” and “Default settings”. Open “stripe key” and add your “Stripe API key” there and click on “Save changes”. For the “Default settings” tab, you will be able to enter your website information such as “Site Name”, “Currency” etc. Once you are done with click on “Save changes”. After configuration, remember to switch on “Live Mode” on the “Stripe Key” tab.

Step 3: Adding  payment button to your website

Once you are all done with these steps, then you need to add a short code to your WordPress store for payment button to which Stripe will start working.

So, here is a brief description of how you can add PayPal and Stripe to your WordPress store. Adding PayPal and Stripe couldn’t be much easier than this article describe.