13 Feb 2018

Connect Your WooCommerce Store with Square

Connecting your WooCommerce Store with Square just became a whole lot cheaper. An exciting announcement was released from the folks at WooCommerce and the popular Square point of sale / payment processor. Beginning February 13, 2018, USA merchants can now integrate Square into their existing WooCommerce store for FREE.

WooCommerce and Square IntegrationLast year Square came onto the WooCommerce add-on marketplace as a paid add-on. Many merchants were looking for a way to integrate a POS into their e-commerce business to accept off-line sales. At Bluehive Interactive, we work with several merchants who are artisans, often selling their merchandise at craft markets and farmer markets in the spring/summer seasons. We used to recommend options which were not deeply integrated into WooCommerce and required an on-going monthly subscription.

In a recent study, Deloitte Consulting reported that more than two-thirds of shoppers are categorized as omnichannel consumers, preferring to engage in multiple channels throughout the purchase life cycle.

With Square, you can accept online and in-person payments through a single solution and easily track your inventory across all channels.

WooCommerce + Square = Awesomeness

This partnership brings with it some very nice features. We are most excited to be able to solve the age old problem of keeping inventory in sync.

Getting your products set up in both platforms is easy. Manually sync products from WooCommerce to Square, or from Square to WooCommerce — no need to set up items twice. When an item is purchased your inventory will automatically sync from Square to WooCommerce.

Save time by updating once

New products created in WooCommerce will automatically be added to Square. Create and update products in WooCommerce and instantly see those changes in Square. All changes including product names and prices will be reflected in both WooCommerce and Square.

Now that we have your attention, let’s take a look at some other great features.

Even More

As an e-commerce merchant we know you are always concerned with keeping costs low, and one of the biggest areas is with credit card merchant processing fees – while also reducing charges backs and ensuring overall general security for your website.

The WooCommerce Square add-on works to simply each of those:

  • Accept payments anywhere, any time: Take payments online, in person or on the go with Square and never miss a sale. Square accepts all major debit and credit cards. (Available in the U.S, Canada, Australia, Japan and the UK)
  • Clear pricing: Pay 2.75% per in-person transaction and 2.9% + $.30 for online transactions. Square also will offer custom rates for some businesses with annual revenues over $250K and an average ticket size over $15
  • Fast deposits: See your funds deposited within one to two business days. We know this is huge for everyone trying to maintain their cash flow
  • PCI-Compliance: Keeping your sales secure and compliant couldn’t be easier. Square complies with the PCI-DSS standards and there are no fees.
  • Square Secure: Get Chargeback Protection and fraud detection at no cost so you can stay focused on your business.

We couldn’t be happier with this announcement and we know that as an e-commerce merchant who works both online and offline, this solution will safe a huge amount of time and allow you to focus on other areas of your business. If you are interested in implementing this into your website or would like to learn more – don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

 

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09 Jan 2018

Stripe Gateway 4.0 Released For WooCommerce

The folks at Automattic announced today that the latest version of Stripe for WooCommerce is available for download. If you have a monthly maintenance agreement with us, we will be updating this in your account within the next week. Let’s take a look at what has changed and what is new.

What is New?

As you probably already know, Stripe is a popular payment service provider for eCommerce stores worldwide, and is our payment processor of choice here at Bluehive Interactive for our WooCommerce customer websites. The new version shipped a major release with a multitude of new features to enhance your experience of working with WooCommerce and Stripe.

  • Fully PCI compliant credit card form on your checkout
  • Payment acceptance using European and other non-U.S. payment gateways
  • Improved support for Apple Pay and the Web Payment Requests API
  • Simpler way to connect your WooCommerce store to Stripe

PCI Compliant

We are most excited to learn that the checkout process with Strip is now fully PCI compliant! They made some changes to integrate the new “Elements” technology from Stripe into the WooCommerce gateway.  The look of the checkout credit card fields may look slightly different, but we think this is a great thing and believe you’ll agree!

The new payment section creates and displays the credit card form entirely via Stripe. This means the credit card form is fully PCI compliant, and the credit card information is sent directly to Stripe, without interacting with your store.

European and other Non-US Payment Gateways

The European markets long have had region specific payment gateways. This often meant installing multiple payment gateways within WooCommerce. Stripe has recently launched a new functionality called “Sources“. This adds the ability to accept multiple payment methods through the Stripe payment gateway – Apple Pay, Bitcoin, and a new selection of European and other non-U.S. payment gateways.

Full details can be read in the Stripe for WooCommerce documentation on the WooCommerce Docs website.

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