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<h1 style="text-align: center">Protect Your Site With reCaptcha</h1>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With the WooCommerce reCaptcha extension, you can add Google reCaptcha to WordPress and WooCommerce login, registration, password pages, checkout, comments, and more. You can also add reCaptcha on any page using the shortcode. The extension supports v2 and v3 versions of Google Invisible captcha.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With increased spam and hacking attempts, the extension can act as an extra security gate to block bot traffic from making login attempts, checkouts, card checking, password resets, spam comments, and more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">By using the invisible reCaptcha v3 version, you ensure that the captcha only appears to suspicious visitors and remains hidden from your valuable and real customers. You can also customize the spam score of V3 reCaptcha as per your website’s needs.</span></p>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal" style="text-align: center;background-color: #ffc4bd"><b>Attention!</b><br />
To prevent your WooCommerce stores from the ongoing surge in carding attacks and fraudulent transactions, it is highly advised to use <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/anti-fraud-shield-for-woocommerce/">Anti-Fraud Shield</a> in Combination with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce/">Google reCaptcha for WooCommerce</a>.</div>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004579813" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/bnr.jpg" alt="google recaptcha for woocommerce" width="901" height="105" /></p>
<h2>Now with Checkout Rate Lmiter – Ultimate Solution for Carding Attacks (<strong>New</strong>)</h2>
<p>Limit manual carding testing attacks in your WooCommerce store using checkout rate-limiting technology. While reCaptcha stops bot-based carding attempts by recognizing the repeating patterns, the rate limiter will now complement reCaptcha by restricting users from making multiple checkout attempts within a specified period. This makes Google reCaptcha for WooCommerce the ultimate solution for all sorts of carding attempts. With the checkout rate limiter’s enhanced settings, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add rate limiter limits</li>
<li>Add time for which the place order button will be disabled when all attempts are exhausted</li>
<li>Add an error message to show when the rate limiter is triggered</li>
<li>Add IPs for which rate limiter will be disabled</li>
<li>Add IPs for which the place order button will be disabled</li>
<li>Add emails for which the place order button will be disbaled</li>
<li>Add user roles for which rate limiter will be disabled</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004977215" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/recaptcha-for-woocommerce-129865.png" alt="recaptcha for woocommerce" width="980" height="575" /></p>
<h2>Features of WooCommerce reCaptcha:</h2>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none">
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<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Supports v2 and v3 versions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Activate reCaptcha individually on certain pages</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize reCaptcha sizes</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Choose between dark and light reCaptcha themes</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Disable reCaptcha for specific countries</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Excludes a specific IP range</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Add reCaptcha anywhere using shortcode</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize spam score for V3 recaptcha</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Activate reCaptcha on the following WooCommerce pages: </span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce Registration</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce Login<br />
</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce Lost Password </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce Checkout<br />
</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Payment Method </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Pay for the Order </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Product Review </span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable reCaptcha on the following WordPress pages: </span>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none">
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400">WordPress Registration </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Lost WordPress Password </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">WordPress Comments</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Multilingual translation ready</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">Expands captcha options with support for reCaptcha.net</span></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004460826" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce-5.png" alt="google recaptcha for woocommerce" width="980" height="414" /></p>
<h2>Supports V2 and V3 reCaptcha</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With Google reCaptcha for WooCommerce, you can add V2 and V3 reCaptcha to your store – providing a strong solution for authenticating and validating customers who visit your online store. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">V2 recaptcha remains visible for everyone, whereas the V3 recaptcha appears only when suspicious traffic is detected and remains hidden for your real customers.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004446735" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce-2.png" alt="" width="980" height="647" /></p>
<h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Customize reCaptcha for each WooCommerce and WordPress Page<br />
</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400">The extension allows you to enable reCaptcha on specific WooCommerce and WordPress pages. You can also customize the following reCaptcha options for each page:</span>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Field Title</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Themes (light or dark)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Size (normal or compact</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004446739" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce-3.png" alt="" width="980" height="701" /></p>
<h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Add reCaptcha using Shortcode</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Integrating Google reCaptcha into your website is made even more versatile with the inclusion of a shortcode feature. By enabling the Shortcode reCaptcha option, you can make any page of your website secure by reCaptcha by adding a shortcode </span><b>[captcha_shortcode] </b><span style="font-weight: 400">on any desired page</span><b>.</b></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004446742" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce-4.png" alt="" width="980" height="772" /></p>
<h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Supports reCaptcha.net</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">This WooCommerce reCaptcha extension provides advanced security measures and customization options for online stores. You can choose between Google.com and reCaptcha.net as the preferred reCAPTCHA type. The reCaptcha.net is preferable for countries where Google is blocked. The “No-Conflict Mode” ensures seamless integration by removing other CAPTCHA occurrences on that page to avoid site-breaking conflicts. </span></p>
<h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">General Settings</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">With additional customization options such as Recaptcha Field Title and a choice between Light and Dark themes, as well as Normal or Compact size, website administrators can seamlessly align reCaptcha with their site’s aesthetics and user experience preferences. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The plugin allows the exclusion of specific countries and the option to disable reCAPTCHA for designated IP ranges, offering a tailored and robust security solution for WooCommerce websites.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004446744" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/google-recaptcha-for-woocommerce-6.png" alt="" width="980" height="908" /></p>
<h2>Why Google reCaptcha for WooCommerce?</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734003260578 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Google-recaptcha-blog-2x-2.png" alt="google recaptcha for woocommerce" width="980" height="3611" /></p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.6</p>

Google reCaptcha

<p>Protect your website from spam and bot attacks by adding reCaptcha to your WordPress & WooCommerce checkout, login, registration, reset password and other pages.</p>

<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell license keys for software</h2>
<p><strong>WooCommerce Software Add‑on</strong> gives you end‑to‑end licensing inside WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, manage activations and upgrades, and keep support simple by managing everything where you already fulfill orders.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell licenses and upgrades</h2>
<p>Mark any product as software, set licensing rules, and let the add‑on handle the rest. Customers buy like any other product, and when the order is <strong>completed</strong> they automatically receive their license key, activation email, and activation limits in the order‑complete message.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17590" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17590" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17590" title="screen-capture-2" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-21-620x371.png" alt="The software settings" width="558" height="334" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17590" class="wp-caption-text">The software settings</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_17588" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17588" style="width: 261px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-17588" title="screen-capture" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture1.png" alt="If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price" width="261" height="230" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17588" class="wp-caption-text">If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price</figcaption></figure>
<p>If you introduce a paid upgrade, define eligible past keys and an upgrade price. During checkout, customers enter their existing license and receive upgrade pricing automatically.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">View purchased keys</h2>
<p>See exactly which key belongs to which order, including remaining activations, right on the WooCommerce Edit Order screen. Need to resend the license email? Use the built‑in “Send” action without leaving WooCommerce.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17591" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17591" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17591" title="screen-capture-5" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-51-620x183.png" alt="Licenses and activations on the orders page" width="558" height="165" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17591" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Licenses and activations on the orders page</figcaption></figure>
<p>For a global view, go to <strong>WooCommerce → License Keys</strong> to search, filter, and bulk‑revoke keys when necessary.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Track activations and view reports</h2>
<p>Understand usage at a glance. The <strong>WooCommerce → Reports → Software</strong> dashboard summarizes sales and activation activity so you can spot trends, enforce limits, and plan upgrades.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17592" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17592" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17592" title="screen-capture-6" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-61-620x138.png" alt="Activations report" width="558" height="124" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17592" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Activations report</figcaption></figure>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Integrate with your app via API</h2>
<p>Validate licenses from your desktop app, plugin, or SaaS. The API supports generating keys, activating, de‑activating, resetting, and checking validity so you can enforce licensing where it matters: inside your software. See the documentation for endpoints and examples.</p>
<p><strong>Not sure if you need Software Add-on or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-api-manager/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">API Manager for WooCommerce</a>?</strong> In most cases, API Manager will be the better fit. If you’re unsure, <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact Kestrel support</a> and we’ll help you choose the right extension for your store.</p>
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<h2 style="color: #f5247d">More information</h2>
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<li>Read the Software Add‑on documentation for setup, API details, and upgrade workflows.</li>
<li>Need help getting started? <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact our support team</a>.</li>
</ul>
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Software Add-on

<p>Sell and manage license keys directly in WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, handle activations and upgrades, and keep everything in one place your team already uses.</p>

Google reCaptcha vs Software Add-on