About this plugin
Paddle is a merchant of record: it sells your products on your behalf and takes care of payments, sales tax and VAT, invoices and compliance in every country. This plugin adds Paddle as a payment method to WooCommerce, so buyers pay in a Paddle popup on your own checkout page.
Works with both Paddle accounts
- Paddle Billing (accounts created after August 2023): API key and client-side token.
- Paddle Classic (older accounts): Vendor ID, API Auth Code and public key.
Checkout
- Works with the Checkout block and the classic (shortcode) checkout, and on the “Pay for order” page.
- Paddle’s secure checkout opens as an overlay on your checkout page. Buyers never leave your site.
- Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, as enabled in your Paddle account.
- No product setup in Paddle: every order is sent with its own lines and prices, so coupons, fees, shipping, variations and multi-item carts just work.
- Light or dark theme, checkout language (automatic or fixed), optional payment icons, your own title and description.
Reliable and safe
- Every webhook is signature-verified; nothing else can mark an order paid.
- One click sets up the webhook in Paddle Billing and stores its secret.
- Duplicate and simultaneous webhooks are handled, so an order is never paid or refunded twice.
- Several stores can share one Paddle account; each store only acts on its own orders.
- Payments are confirmed directly with Paddle while the buyer waits (Billing), so a slow webhook doesn’t hold anyone up.
- Underpaid, wrong-currency or outdated-checkout payments are flagged instead of marking the order paid.
- Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).
- Test connection button, clear admin warnings and logging to the WooCommerce logs.
Refunds
- Refunds made in Paddle (full or partial, down to the order line on Billing) are recorded in WooCommerce automatically.
- A refund recorded in WooCommerce first (“Refund manually”) is matched to the Paddle refund that follows, so it is never recorded twice.
- Chargebacks and disputes put the order on hold automatically, so you can review it.
Order screen
- A Paddle box on every Paddle order: the transaction and customer (linked to your Paddle dashboard), the Paddle total, tax and your earnings, and the Paddle receipt (Classic).
- A “Check payment with Paddle” button for unpaid orders.
No limits. There are no order, revenue or product limits.
Pro
WPInterface Checkout with Paddle for WooCommerce Pro adds:
- Subscriptions with WooCommerce Subscriptions: free trials, sign-up fees, renewals, failed payments and cancellations kept in sync with Paddle.
- Refunds from the WooCommerce order screen sent to Paddle, down to a single product.
- Inline checkout embedded in your checkout page.
- Paddle invoices for customers on order pages, in My Account and in order emails.
- Priority support.
External services
com), the payment provider and merchant of record, to take payments. Nothing is sent until you configure the plugin and enable the payment method.
- Paddle.js is loaded from cdn.paddle.com on the checkout and “Pay for order” pages so the buyer can pay in Paddle’s secure checkout. Paddle receives the buyer’s payment details and email address directly.
- Paddle API ( api.paddle.com and sandbox-api.paddle.com for Paddle Billing; vendors.paddle.com and sandbox-vendors.paddle.com for Paddle Classic) is called from your server when an order is placed (order lines, prices, currency, buyer email and billing country, the WooCommerce order number and a site identifier), when the payment is confirmed, and when you click Test connection or Set up webhook (your webhook URL).
- Webhooks are sent by Paddle to your site to report payments and refunds.
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