Payments in Woocommerce: remove

Hi there!

I understand your frustration regarding the WooPayments prompts and menu visibility.

The WooPayments menu entry is designed to make merchants aware of our integrated payment solution. I want to be transparent about why WooPayments is prominently promoted:

1. Integration Revenue: WooPayments is WooCommerce’s native payment solution, and like any business, we earn revenue from transaction fees, which helps fund continued platform development, like WooCommerce (which is free)
2. User Experience Benefits:

• Built-in fraud protection
• Seamless integration with the WooCommerce admin interface
• Simplified setup process compared to some third-party solutions
• Unified support channel for both platform and payment issues

But I acknowledge that the current implementation may feel too persistent. Your feedback about the prominence and frequency of these prompts is valuable and something we can relay to our product team.

Hopefully, our developer will remove this payment link from the menu in version 9.6.0, as mentioned here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/53514.

I hope this helps.

Guess I have to wait for an update ??

I understand the plugin is optmized from the perspective that users will use it for a store, but I only list items (no payments will ever be made).

Hi @hvitravnurab,

I’d like to apologize for the earlier miscommunication where we mentioned that this link would be removed in version 9.6.0. That’s not the case, as this link is an integral part of WooCommerce for many store setups, and there are no plans to remove it at the moment.

That said, since you don’t need it, you can easily hide the Payments tab with this code snippet:

function remove_payments_tab() {
remove_menu_page("admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=checkout");
}
add_action("admin_menu", "remove_payments_tab", 999);

Add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin, and it will remove the tab from your admin menu.

Please note that custom code is outside our scope of support, so you’ll need to use and test this code at your own discretion.

If you have any further questions, feel free to let us know!