EasyCart lets you run up to three payment systems at the same time.  Manual payments, Third Party payments, and Live Payments give your customers a choice on how they would like to pay and gives more confidence with a selection of choices.

Manual Payments – Offers the ability to place an order without processing any payment.  Orders go into a ‘Pending’ status and you can Bill Later, Invoice, COD or handle these as you see fit.

Third Party Payments – Offers customers the ability to pay on another website, such as PayPal or 2Checkout.  This allows you to offer PayPal along with Stripe, Square,  or another live payment gateway, giving customers the choice to pay with the popular PayPal method OR on your website with a credit card.

Live Payments – Offers customers the ability to pay directly on your website using a standard credit card entry form.  Offer any one of our live payment processors along with PayPal third party payments for best results and the most conversions with your customers.

European SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) – PayPal, Stripe, and Square are all SCA compatible payment providers.

You can run Manual Payments, Third Party Payments, and Live Payments all together on your website for best results and the most conversions!

Manual Payments	FREE Edition	Professional & Premium
Bill Later/Invoice/Manual Payment

Third Party Payments	FREE Edition	Professional & Premium
PayPal Express	2% application fees apply*	NO Application Fees
PayPal Standard
2Checkout
Dwolla
Nets Nexaxept
Payfort
Payment Express pxpay 2.0
Realex
PayFast
Redsys
Sage Pay Now South Africa
Skrill

Live Payments	FREE Edition	Professional & Premium
Square	2% application fees apply*	NO Application Fees
Stripe	2% application fees apply*	NO Application Fees
Authorize.net
Bambora
Braintree
Chronopay
Virtual Merchant
Eway
FirstData
GeoMerchant
Intuit
iDEAL (with Stripe & Euros)
MIGS
Moneris Canada
Moneris US
NMI
Payline
Payment Express
PayPal Pro
PayPal Payments Pro
PayPoint
Realex
Sagepay
Sagepay US
Secure Pay
WorldPay

* All free editions offer processing payments with a 2% application fee + payment gateway fees.  Contact your payment provider for their payment gateway fee structure. All Professional & Premium licensed versions offer zero application fees at this time.

FREE Edition Gateways

The free edition offers several gateways and easy activation.  Bill Later allows users to enter an order and skip any payment processing. This leaves you the ability to invoice or bill the customer for payment.  PayPal offers an integration where customers can pay from within a standard PayPal frame securely using their payment system.  Square & Stripe allow credit card processing directly on your website.  You will be required to have an SSL on your website in order to process payments directly on your website with Stripe, but gives customers that professional confidence in your website.

We recommend you run PayPal AND Stripe or PayPal AND Square together for best results an the most conversions.  Consumers are very conscious about how they want to pay and offering several methods will convert more users into purchasers!

Professional & Premium Edition Gateways

Manual (Bill Later) Payments

Also known as Direct Deposit or Bill Later method, this system can be enabled/disabled along with a custom message.  The way it works is it simply bypasses the payment processing step.  The orders are all placed into an ‘Order Pending’ status so that no downloads or goods would be shipped or given away until the site owner or administrator changes the order status to ‘Order Approved’.  Once you collect payment, however that may be, is when the order status is changed.

This is useful for Purchase Orders, Direct Deposits, Checks, or other methods where the order is taken, but payment is left to the site owner or administrator.

Third Party Payments

EasyCart referees to payments in which the customer leaves your website to make a payment as ‘Third Party Payments’.  PayPal is the most prevalent method, but we have close to a dozen different third party payment processors from around the globe.  Simply enter your credentials and settings for the processor type you would like to enable.

**Note:  If you plan to sell downloadable goods, it is easier for customers if you use a live processor, as transactions are processed instantly and the results get the user to their downloads quicker and smoother than if they leave your site, pay, then come back.

Live Payment Setup

WP EasyCart refers to payments that are made without the customer ever leaving your website as ‘Live Payments’.  Square, Authorize.net, Stripe, FirstData are popular examples, but choose from over two dozen live payment integrations for international and domestic support. Simply enter your credentials and settings for the processor type you would like to enable.

**Note:  If you plan to sell downloadable goods, it is easier for customers if you use a live processor, as transactions are processed instantly and the results get the user to their downloads quicker and smoother than if they leave your site, pay, then come back.

Subscriptions – A special consideration is made to subscriptions and memberships as they are much more complicated systems to work with.  WP EasyCart is integrated heavily with stripe.com as a live payment processor and subscription system.  If you plan to use subscription based products, you should sign-up for stripe.com. Note: Free Edition users cannot use subscriptions with Stripe and WP EasyCart, you must upgrade to access this feature.

Stripe – WP EasyCart offers a super easy way to connect with Stripe through our Stripe.com app. If you are using a free version without a license this includes a 2% fee, but for all users with an active license this fee is removed. If you do not have an account, you may still click the ‘Connect with Stripe’ button and create an account. If you’d like to try in Sandbox mode, click the link below the button. Stripe will ask you some questions about your business and ask if you wish to connect, fill this form out and submit to connect with your WP EasyCart plugin. If you are connecting to a live account we will ask you to agree to some simple terms and once you accept Stripe will be connected!

Please Note: We do not store any of your Stripe account keys on our servers. These keys are passed through to your own website from Stripe and are stored on your server in your database. The keys will only be used when the cart needs them to make payments, refunds, add subscription products, etc… and those calls are done from your website.

Other Payment Processors – WP EasyCart also offers two dozen other live payment processors. Simply select your payment gateway of choice from box and enter the credentials for that gateway. For convenience we also offer Stripe in this box and you may enter your own API credentials to connect directly to your account.