Arik Sahaj Checkout

Arik Sahaj Checkout turns WhatsApp into a real WooCommerce checkout flow. Unlike basic “click-to-chat” plugins, this plugin creates a real WooCommerce order (a shadow order ) the moment a customer clicks the WhatsApp button protecting your inventory from overselling while the customer completes the conversation on WhatsApp.

Why a “Shadow Order”?

When a customer clicks the WhatsApp button, the plugin:

• Creates a real WooCommerce order with the selected product, quantity, and variations

• Reduces stock immediately (atomic no race conditions)

• Opens WhatsApp with a pre-filled message including the Order ID

• Suppresses transactional emails so admin and customer aren’t notified prematurely

The result: your inventory is protected, your dashboard has a clean record of every WhatsApp inquiry, and you never oversell.

Key Features

• Real WooCommerce Orders: Every click creates a trackable WooCommerce order.

• Atomic Inventory Protection: Stock reduced via wc_reduce_stock_levels() — safe under concurrent load

• Variable Product Support: Captures size, color, and other variation selections

• High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatible: Full support for WooCommerce HPOS.

• Cart & Checkout Blocks compatible: Works alongside the WooCommerce Blocks experience

• Popup-Blocker Safe: Opens WhatsApp tab synchronously on click; never blocked.

• Honeypot Anti-Spam: Built-in bot protection without CAPTCHA.

• Rate Limiting: Per-IP and per-user, configurable, with HTTP 429 responses.

• Customizable Message Templates: Use placeholders for product name, order ID, total, variations, date

• Flexible Button Positioning: Before, after, or replace the Add to Cart button

• Configurable Order Status: Choose any valid WooCommerce status for shadow orders

• Email Suppression: Shadow orders never trigger admin/customer emails

• Block Theme Support: Compatible with Twenty Twenty-Four and other block themes

• Translation Ready: Full i18n/l10n support

• Multisite Compatible: Network activation with per-site settings

• Accessibility-First: ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation, prefers-reduced-motion, high-contrast mode

• RTL Support: Right-to-left languages fully supported

• WP-CLI Compatible: Plugin activation via wp plugin activate works correctly

How It Works

• Customer browses your shop and selects a product

• Clicks “Order via WhatsApp”

• Plugin creates a real WooCommerce order with status of your choice (default: On Hold)

• Stock is reduced automatically

• WhatsApp opens in a new tab with a pre-filled message including the Order ID

• Customer messages you on WhatsApp you reference the Order ID in your WooCommerce dashboard

Perfect For

• Stores that primarily take orders via WhatsApp (common in South Asia, MENA, Latin America)

• Businesses with limited online checkout (no payment gateway, no shipping calculator)

• Shops wanting inventory protection without complex multi-step checkout

• Stores selling variable products via WhatsApp

• Brick-and-mortar businesses using WordPress as a catalog

Theme Compatibility

Tested with the following themes (single product page and shop archive):

• Storefront

• Astra

• OceanWP

• Divi

• The7

• Flatsome

• Avada

• GeneratePress

• Kadence

• Blocksy

• Block theme

important button rules from popular themes without breaking other site styles.

Technical Highlights

• Object-oriented PHP architecture with singletons

• PHP 7.4+ compatible (no PHP 8.x-only syntax)

• Follows WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS)

• Security-first: nonce verification, capability checks, input sanitization, output escaping

• WooCommerce email hooks safely wrapped in try/finally

• Cryptographically secure token generation via random_bytes()

• Atomic stock reduction (no race conditions)

• HPOS-aware uninstall (cleans both wc_orders_meta and postmeta )

• Multisite-aware uninstall (loops all sites in network)

• No wp_cache_flush() abuse — targeted cache invalidation only

• wc_get_logger() integration for production debugging

• Defensive class/function existence checks throughout

Additional Information

Support & Connect

• Email Support: [email protected]

• Website: https://gernx.com/

• Support Forum: WordPress.org Support

• LinkedIn: Tanmoy Biswas

Privacy Policy

This plugin does not collect or transmit any personal data to external services. All order data is stored locally in your WordPress/WooCommerce database, which you control.

The plugin stores the following data on each shadow order:

• Customer IP address (standard WooCommerce field for fraud prevention)

• Customer user agent (standard WooCommerce field for fraud prevention)

• Product ID, variation ID, quantity, and variation attributes selected

• Order timestamp

For logged-in customers, the order is attached to their WordPress user account. Anonymous customers have no personally identifying data stored beyond IP/user agent (which WooCommerce stores for all orders, not just shadow orders).

No data is sent to any third-party service. me ) opens on the customer’s device using only the destination number and message text you configure the plugin does not contact WhatsApp’s servers itself.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0 or higher

• WooCommerce 7.0 or higher (tested up to 9.5)

• PHP 7.4 or higher

• MySQL 5.6 or higher / MariaDB 10.1 or higher

• JSON and Multibyte String PHP extensions