WooCommerce Payments (Stripe Express) vs Stripe Plugin

Hi there

In terms of PCI compliance Stripe Express and Stripe use the same technology.

In terms of feature set, WooCommerce Payments offers the opportunity to manage your payment gateway from inside your WooCommerce dashboard itself. This is unique to WooCommerce Payments. Chargebacks, refunds and dispuates can be managed from within your WordPress site’s own dashboard.

On Stripe, you would have to handle many of these functions only after logging into your Stripe dashboard.

The choice of a payment gateway provider however rests with a number of business factors outside of simple technology (although PCI compliance is, of course, a requirement).

Here is a resource on choosing a provider:https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/premium-payment-gateway-extensions/ and here is another blog article on how to choose a gateway provider: https://woocommerce.com/posts/how-to-choose-payment-gateway/

The cost, the ability to support subscription transactions and subscription switching, currency support and local regulation may all factor into a merchant’s decision.

Hi @nicw,

Thank you for your quick reply and the information. I like the idea of the WooCommerce dashboard integration and wanted to be sure it didn’t require additional security steps (over and above the Stripe Standard plugin) to benefit from the features.

Thanks again.

Hello @advansys,

You are welcome! The thread is marked as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

If you would like to know more about WooCommerce Payments then I recommend checking out the documentation page.

Cheers.