Crypto payments are slowly becoming more popular. Investors are seeking more ways to spend their crypto, while merchants try to expand their products and services to new audiences. Of all the e-commerce store builders, Woocommerce is probably the most flexible for crypto payments. Not only does it have a large selection of available plugins, but the familiar WordPress admin panel makes Woocommerce crypto payments very easy to track.
In this short blog post, we outline a step-by-step process on how to accept crypto payments on Woocommerce with Sprintcheckout as your partner. After reading this guide you’ll be able to start accepting payments in stablecoins across all EVM-compatible chains, with optional fiat settlement. Let’s get started!
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Setting up your Sprintcheckout account
Sprintcheckout offers a seamless payment experience that rivals that of card payment processors. With 1-click direct payments and a wide selection of cryptocurrencies that today’s investors actually use, you can open up your business to a new revenue stream.
Learn more about Sprintcheckout by reading our Docs
To begin, head over to https://sprintcheckout.com/ and create a new account by clicking on the Sign Up button in the top-right corner.
Start by adding the details of your store:
After creating an account on Sprintcheckout, log into your account, and you’ll find yourself on the dashboard.
- Click on Set up from the options on the left-hand side.
- Add your store’s name, its URL, and the logo. You can do this by right-clicking on the logo at your store’s landing page and selecting ‘Copy link address’.
- You may also add a brief description of your store.
The information you add in this section will be visible to buyers when they are redirected to the payment window during checkout. You can always come back and change the details of your business at a later point.
You can now customize the payment parameters:
- Scroll down to Payout Settings. In the Wallets tab, you can enable or disable the networks you’d like to support, and paste your public wallet address.
- Select the tokens you’d like to get paid in for each of the networks you choose.
- Once you’re done with the payout settings, scroll back up and click on Save (top-right side of the page).
Once again, you can always adjust the payout settings in a future time. If there are any EVM chains you’d like to use that are not yet available, you can contact us directly. We’ll be happy to add them for you.
How to install the Sprintcheckout plugin
With your Sprintcheckout account all set up we can now download, install, and connect the Sprintcheckout plugin to your store.
1. Head back to the admin panel of your store and click on Plugins > Add New.
2. Type Sprintcheckout in the search tab and, when you find the plugin, click on Install Now.
3. Once downloaded, click on Plugins > Installed Plugins.
4. Scroll down, find Sprintcheckout, and click on Activate.
Connect your Sprintcheckout account to your e-commerce store
You have successfully downloaded and activated the plugin. Now, let’s connect the plugin with your Sprintcheckout account so you can start accepting payments. This stage consists of 10 steps.
1. Head back to your Sprintcheckout profile and click on Get paid > New API key
2. Go ahead and copy the newly generated API key
3. Head back to your store’s admin panel and, from the column on the left, find Woocommerce > Settings.
4. From the menu bar on the top, click on Payments and scroll down to find Sprintcheckout in the list of payment methods.
5. Make sure Sprintcheckout is enabled. If it’s not, you’ll need to enable it manually.
6. Once enabled, click on Manage, paste the API key that you previously copied, and click on Save changes.
7. Now that that;’s done, go back to the Sprintcheckout dashboard and click on Fulfil from the column on the left side.
8. Find the Woocommerce Plugin section, and click on Connect. A pop-up window will prompt you to enter the site URL. Paste it and click on Authorize.
9. You will be redirected to a pop-up window from Woocommerce, where you will need to grant Sprintcheckout access to your store. This is the final step.
10. Click on Approve to complete the process. Sprintcheckout is now successfully connected to your e-commerce store. You can see an authorization check next to your site URL in the Fulfil section.
From now on, every time a payment is made, you can see its details from your store’s admin panel and the Fulfil section, directly from Sprintcheckout.
Time to get paid
To better understand how Woocommerce crypto payments work for merchants, we need to have a brief look at the customer journey from start to finish. Depending on your store’s layout, the buyer will usually find a product, add it to the basket, proceed to checkout, provide their personal details, and place an order.
At that point, the buyer heads to the checkout page, where they can choose the payment method. If you’ve enabled Sprintcheckout, they will see an option to pay with crypto. When an order is placed, the user is redirected to a payment window where they can:
- Select their preferred currency from the options you enabled;
- Proceed to make a payment by clicking on the designated button;
- Approve the payment in their wallet by clicking on Confirm.
Once the buyer confirms the outgoing payment, the transaction takes place. From that moment onwards, buyers can easily check the transaction details on Etherscan by clicking on the sentence highlighted below. As a merchant, you can easily check the latest payments from your admin panel by clicking on Woocommerce > Orders. Click on the order to review all the information you need to fulfill the order.
You can also review the order directly from the Fulfill section in your Sprintcheckout account, including a link to the Block Explorer to verify payment information. The Merchant orders section updates directly after a payment is made from your e-commerce store. Orders are sorted by date you have the option to label them for more convenience.
Sprintcheckout order list
Start accepting Woocommerce crypto payments
If you made it this far you should now have a better idea of how to accept Woocommerce crypto payments. While the crypto markets may currently seem uncertain, the number of active wallets continues to grow. And so does the demand for crypto payments. Sprintcheckout enables you to tap into this new, growing audience while focusing on providing the best customer journey.
There’s no need to manually copy/paste wallet addresses or scan QR codes when making a payment. Users can pay with a variety of stablecoins that are actually meant for spending, and payments require just one wallet signature! If you still have questions regarding our crypto payment plugin or need help getting started, feel free to book an intro call with the team. We’ll be happy to walk you through the steps.