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<p><strong>Arik Sahaj Checkout</strong> turns WhatsApp into a real WooCommerce checkout flow. Unlike basic “click-to-chat” plugins, this plugin creates a real WooCommerce order (a <em>shadow order</em>) the moment a customer clicks the WhatsApp button protecting your inventory from overselling while the customer completes the conversation on WhatsApp.</p>
<h4>Why a “Shadow Order”?</h4>
<p>When a customer clicks the WhatsApp button, the plugin:</p>
<ol>
<li>Creates a real WooCommerce order with the selected product, quantity, and variations</li>
<li>Reduces stock immediately (atomic no race conditions)</li>
<li>Opens WhatsApp with a pre-filled message including the Order ID</li>
<li>Suppresses transactional emails so admin and customer aren’t notified prematurely</li>
</ol>
<p>The result: your inventory is protected, your dashboard has a clean record of every WhatsApp inquiry, and you never oversell.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Real WooCommerce Orders</strong>: Every click creates a trackable WooCommerce order</li>
<li><strong>Atomic Inventory Protection</strong>: Stock reduced via <code>wc_reduce_stock_levels()</code> — safe under concurrent load</li>
<li><strong>Variable Product Support</strong>: Captures size, color, and other variation selections</li>
<li><strong>High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatible</strong>: Full support for WooCommerce HPOS</li>
<li><strong>Cart & Checkout Blocks compatible</strong>: Works alongside the WooCommerce Blocks experience</li>
<li><strong>Popup-Blocker Safe</strong>: Opens WhatsApp tab synchronously on click; never blocked</li>
<li><strong>Honeypot Anti-Spam</strong>: Built-in bot protection without CAPTCHA</li>
<li><strong>Rate Limiting</strong>: Per-IP and per-user, configurable, with HTTP 429 responses</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Message Templates</strong>: Use placeholders for product name, order ID, total, variations, date</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Button Positioning</strong>: Before, after, or replace the Add to Cart button</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Order Status</strong>: Choose any valid WooCommerce status for shadow orders</li>
<li><strong>Email Suppression</strong>: Shadow orders never trigger admin/customer emails</li>
<li><strong>Block Theme Support</strong>: Compatible with Twenty Twenty-Four and other block themes</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong>: Full i18n/l10n support</li>
<li><strong>Multisite Compatible</strong>: Network activation with per-site settings</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility-First</strong>: ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation, <code>prefers-reduced-motion</code>, high-contrast mode</li>
<li><strong>RTL Support</strong>: Right-to-left languages fully supported</li>
<li><strong>WP-CLI Compatible</strong>: Plugin activation via <code>wp plugin activate</code> works correctly</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Customer browses your shop and selects a product</li>
<li>Clicks “Order via WhatsApp”</li>
<li>Plugin creates a real WooCommerce order with status of your choice (default: On Hold)</li>
<li>Stock is reduced automatically</li>
<li>WhatsApp opens in a new tab with a pre-filled message including the Order ID</li>
<li>Customer messages you on WhatsApp you reference the Order ID in your WooCommerce dashboard</li>
</ol>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Stores that primarily take orders via WhatsApp (common in South Asia, MENA, Latin America)</li>
<li>Businesses with limited online checkout (no payment gateway, no shipping calculator)</li>
<li>Shops wanting inventory protection without complex multi-step checkout</li>
<li>Stores selling variable products via WhatsApp</li>
<li>Brick-and-mortar businesses using WordPress as a catalog</li>
</ul>
<h4>Theme Compatibility</h4>
<p>Tested with the following themes (single product page and shop archive):</p>
<ul>
<li>Storefront</li>
<li>Astra</li>
<li>OceanWP</li>
<li>Divi</li>
<li>The7</li>
<li>Flatsome</li>
<li>Avada</li>
<li>GeneratePress</li>
<li>Kadence</li>
<li>Blocksy</li>
<li>Twenty Twenty-Four (block theme)</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin uses high-specificity CSS selectors and CSS custom properties to override aggressive <code>!important</code> button rules from popular themes without breaking other site styles.</p>
<h4>Technical Highlights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Object-oriented PHP architecture with singletons</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+ compatible (no PHP 8.x-only syntax)</li>
<li>Follows WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS)</li>
<li>Security-first: nonce verification, capability checks, input sanitization, output escaping</li>
<li>WooCommerce email hooks safely wrapped in try/finally</li>
<li>Cryptographically secure token generation via <code>random_bytes()</code></li>
<li>Atomic stock reduction (no race conditions)</li>
<li>HPOS-aware uninstall (cleans both <code>wc_orders_meta</code> and <code>postmeta</code>)</li>
<li>Multisite-aware uninstall (loops all sites in network)</li>
<li>No <code>wp_cache_flush()</code> abuse — targeted cache invalidation only</li>
<li><code>wc_get_logger()</code> integration for production debugging</li>
<li>Defensive class/function existence checks throughout</li>
</ul>
<h3>Additional Information</h3>
<h4>Support & Connect</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Email Support:</strong> helpwcblog@gmail.com</li>
<li><strong>Website:</strong> <strong><a href="https://gernx.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://gernx.com/</a></strong> </li>
<li><strong>Support Forum:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/arik-sahaj-checkout/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org Support</a></li>
<li><strong>LinkedIn:</strong> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/is-tanmoy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tanmoy Biswas</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The plugin stores the following data on each shadow order:</p>
<ul>
<li>Customer IP address (standard WooCommerce field for fraud prevention)</li>
<li>Customer user agent (standard WooCommerce field for fraud prevention)</li>
<li>Product ID, variation ID, quantity, and variation attributes selected</li>
<li>Order timestamp</li>
</ul>
<p>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).</p>
<p>No data is sent to any third-party service. The WhatsApp deep link (<code>wa.me</code>) 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.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or higher</li>
<li>WooCommerce 7.0 or higher (tested up to 9.5)</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>MySQL 5.6 or higher / MariaDB 10.1 or higher</li>
<li>JSON and Multibyte String PHP extensions</li>
</ul>


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