How to setup Stripe

1. Enable Stripe in WooCommerce

The first step is to go to your WordPress dashboard, hover over WooCommerce, and go to the Settings.

Next, click the Payments tab.

Finally, click the checkbox to enable Enable Stripe Payment Method and click Setup/Manage.If you have not created a Stripe account yet, create a business account before proceeding. You will need a business account to get your API keys from Stripe.  

2. Get Stripe account keys

Next, add in your Stripe account keys.

To get your Stripe account keys, you will need to login to your Stripe dashboard.

From the Stripe dashboard, click Developers > API keys.

Then, you will be able to view your publishable and secret keys. Copy these values.

Then, paste these values in the API credentials section. Save Changes.

Next, from the Stripe dashboard, click “add endpoint”, and copy the webhook endpoint in WooCommerce and paste this value in the endpoint url in Stripe.

Finally, copy the webhook secret in Stripe and paste this value in WooCommerce.

Don’t forget to click ‘Save Changes’ in WooCommerce.

3. Test that Stripe is working

Finally, do a live transaction on your site using Stripe. Open up a browser on your phone or computer and go to your website and add one of your products to Cart.

You should see the option to pay with a credit card.

If you do not see this option, you may also have to clear your cache.

Pro tip: Update 1 product in your store to be $1 and do a real transaction using Stripe to make sure everything is working!

Video Tutorial

If you are more of a visual learner, you can check out the video tutorial as well!

How to setup Stripe sandbox account on WooCommerce?

On your WordPress dashboard, hover over WooCommerce and click Settings.

Next, click the Payments tab and click Manage next to Stripe.

Under Webhook Endpoints, find “Test mode” and click “Enable Test Mode”.

If you scroll down to your Stripe settings page, you will notice we need to insert our Test Publishable Key, Test Secret Key, and Test Webhook Secret.

To get these we need to go to your Stripe Developer account, and Sign In.

On your Stripe Dashboard, under Developers on the sidebar click API keys. Then toggle ‘View Test Data’ in the top right.  and copy and paste the new Test Publishable Key and Test Secret Key into WooCommerce.

Next, copy and paste the new Test Publishable Key and Test Secret Key into your WooCommerce Stripe settings.

Click Save changes.

Your Stripe sandbox account is all set up.