How to Use Conditional Payment Methods by Location in WooCommerce
Hide or display specific payment gateways based on customer’s location, postal codes, IP address, or even cities, sounds like a smart way to deliver customized experience for your customers, right? I guess your answer will definitely be yes!
Yes dear, now with just a few clicks you can display or hide any payment gateways based on your customer location. This helps enhance user convenience, streamline your store’s transactions, and align by regional preferences.
In this article, I’ll guide you on how to set up multiple payment gateways based on your customer’s location in just a few seconds.
Let’s get started!
Step1:
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Download The Plugin
To get started you will need to download the “WooCommerce Conditional Payment Methods by Location” plugin that allows you to display or hide specific payment gateways.
After downloading the plugin, from your WPFactory account, upload it to your WordPress site.
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Access The Plugin
Once the plugin is installed and activated, you can tailor it to fit your business needs as desired.
To access the plugin: Go to WPFactory tab > WooCommerce Conditional Payment Methods by Location.
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General Options
The first thing you should do is to verify that the plugin is enabled on this checkbox, as shown in the image below👇
When you enable this option you can set countries, states, cities, or postcodes to include/exclude for WooCommerce payment gateways to show up.
Here, you can customize how the payment methods are detected based on the customer’s location. You can select to detect the country, city, postcode, and IP address from the billing details entered. And if you select the “Country by IP” option, make sure that Geolocation in WooCommerce is available.
Note: Geolocation is a feature in WooCommerce that allows the system to automatically detect the customer’s location
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Countries
By checking the box below, this allows you to enable or disable payment gateways (Direct bank transfer, Cash on delivery, Check payments), based on the countries where you want them available, so you can customize which payment methods are shown for each country.
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States & Cities
And the same thing here, you can specify which payment gateways you want to be available in the state & cities and which ones are not available.
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Postcodes – Zip Code
What are the postcodes – zip code? Postcodes or zip codes are postal codes that are used in mail systems to identify regions or subregions within a specific country to facilitate the process of mail distribution by accurate geolocation.
So, here you can select the available payment gateways based on the postcodes in the region.
And that’s not all! You can also specify the payment methods based on the currency by using Payment Gateway Currency for WooCommerce, or even customize them based on the country and products using Payment Gateways per Product for WooCommerce. We’ll talk more about these plugins in upcoming articles and guide you on how to set them up!
Final Words
Just as simple as that, you now offer an easy payment experience for your customers, with the control you have over the available payment gateways, which protect your money and minimize risk, you can ensure a safer transaction process.
So, within just a few clicks, you’ll have identified the payment gateways you want to be available based on your customer’s location, whether based on their countries, cities, IP addresses, and postcodes.