<h2>Optimize your checkout experience</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><b>Boost conversion:</b> Provide an optimal experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop with a responsive checkout, and offer <a href="https://stripe.com/payments/link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link</a>, <a href="https://woocommerce.com/apple-pay/">Apple Pay</a>, and <a href="https://www.google.com/payments/solutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Pay</a> out of the box.</li>
<li><b>Expand your customer base:</b> Convert customers who would usually abandon their cart and increase average order value with buy now, pay later options like Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm. Accept credit and debit card payments from Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and Diners.</li>
<li><b>Meet existing customer demand and localize the experience:</b> Offer <a href="https://stripe.com/guides/payment-methods-guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local payment methods</a> such as Bancontact, Boleto, Cash App Pay, EPS, giropay, iDEAL, Multibanco, OXXO, Przelewy 24, and SEPA Direct Debit.</li>
<li><b>Fight fraud:</b> Detect and prevent fraud with <a href="https://stripe.com/radar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stripe Radar</a>, which offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.</li>
<li><b>Accept in-person payments for products and services:</b> Use the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader or get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone, or Tap to Pay on Android.</li>
<li><b>Support subscriptions:</b> Support recurring payments with various payment methods via <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a>.</li>
<li><b>Manage cash flow:</b> Get paid within minutes with Stripe Instant Payouts, if eligible.</li>
<li>Achieve <a href="https://docs.stripe.com/security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PCI-DSS compliance</a> with <a href="https://stripe.com/payments/elements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stripe Elements</a> hosted input fields.</li>
<li>Support Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).</li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0;color: #fff"><a style="color: #fff" href="https://woocommerce.com/document/stripe/">Update or install</a> the new checkout experience from Stripe.</h3>
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<h2>Drive 11.9% in revenue with an optimized checkout experience from Stripe</h2>
<p>Changing consumer behavior has resulted in an explosion of payment methods and experiences, which are great for increasing conversion and lowering costs—but can be difficult for businesses to maintain. Give customers a best-in-class checkout experience while you remain focused on your core business.</p>
<p>Businesses using the new checkout experience from Stripe saw 11.9% more revenue on average. The new checkout experience can help customers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase conversion by providing a great shopper experience that helps convert buyers.</li>
<li>Expand your customer base by offering more payment methods including popular buy now pay later methods to appeal to more audiences.</li>
<li>Reduce time and effort by saving administration time and streamlining operations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Features and benefits</h2>
<h3>Increase conversion</h3>
<p>With the new checkout from Stripe, you can surface 23 payment methods including buy now, pay later methods, and Link, an accelerated checkout experience.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004114012" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Payment-Methods-at-checkout_d95dff.gif?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004113864" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Checkout.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h3>Expand your customer base</h3>
<p>Convert customers who might otherwise abandon their cart with buy now, pay later methods like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay/Clearpay, wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, and WeChatpay, and local payment methods such as Bancontact in Europe and Alipay in Asia Pacific. Deliver a localized payment experience with out-of-the-box support for localized error messages, right-to-left languages, and automatic adjustment of input fields based on payment method and country.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004113873" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Link.gif?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h3>Fight fraud</h3>
<p>Stripe Radar offers seamlessly integrated, powerful fraud-detection tools that use machine learning to detect and flag potentially fraudulent transactions.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004113870" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Radar-dashboard.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h3>Accept in-person payments</h3>
<p>Accept in-person payments for products and services using the Stripe Terminal M2 card reader or get started with no additional hardware using Tap to Pay on iPhone or Android.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004113868" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/M2-card-reader.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734004113872" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tap-to-Pay-on-Android.gif?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h2>Get started with Stripe</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/stripe/">Install Stripe for WooCommerce</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/stripe/admin-experience/in-person-payments/">Learn more</a> about Stripe for WooCommerce.</li>
</ul>
<h2>About Stripe</h2>
<h3>Building financial infrastructure for the internet economy.</h3>
<p>Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.</p>

Stripe

<p>Maximize revenue with the new checkout from Stripe.</p>

<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005369697" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WooCommerce_Cash-App-Afterpay-Payments_896x550px_Tile-1.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h2>Connect with the world’s best shoppers</h2>
<p>Attract millions of millennial and Gen Z shoppers by adding Afterpay as a payment method. Afterpay allows your customers to choose to pay in 4 installments over 6 weeks, interest free, or in the US, to pay monthly over 6 or 12 months.</p>
<h2>Afterpay — it’s the better way to pay</h2>
<p>No interest or application fees, late fees, and no surprises when they pay on time — and they love it. And merchants love us too because after adding Afterpay, our merchants have seen increased shopping frequency, basket sizes, and sales.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005369705" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WooCommerce_Cash-App-Afterpay-Payments_896x550px_Tile-2.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h3>Here’s how it works for you</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Get paid upfront.</b> You’ll get paid within days for purchases made with Afterpay.</li>
<li><b>Minimize your risk.</b> We take on all risk associated with customer fraud, so you can focus on growing your business.</li>
<li><b>Receive daily settlement reports. Get access to transactional information that you can use to reconcile and verify orders.</b></li>
</ul>
<h3>Here’s how it works for your customers</h3>
<ol>
<li>Your customer gets the app and can sign up instantly.</li>
<li>Customers see their payment schedule and choose Afterpay as their payment method.li>
<li>They’ll make their first payment now and will pay the rest bi-weekly over 6 weeks, or monthly over 6 or 12 months (US only).</li>
</ol>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005369706" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WooCommerce_Cash-App-Afterpay-Payments_896x550px_Tile-3.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>
<h2>Key features</h2>
<ul>
<li><b>Express Checkout.</b> Afterpay now offers Express Checkout, which streamlines the checkout experience to deliver increased value to merchant partners and delight shoppers. The overall experience eliminates five steps and over 40 fields of customer-provided information. The streamlined experience results in higher conversions and more shoppers for merchants.</b></li>
<li><b>Cross Border Trade.</b> Selling internationally just got simpler. With Cross Border Trade, you can get your business in front of millions of shoppers in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand. Customers pay for their purchase in their local currency and you get paid the full amount (minus merchant fee) in your local currency.</li>
<li><b>Afterpay Business Hub.</b> Afterpay provides all eligible merchants with access to a portal that includes deep insights on Afterpay performance, daily settlement reports, resources for marketing best practices, and the ability to instantly update your account.</b></li>
<li><b>AI-powered risk.</b> Afterpay is powered by one of the most sophisticated risk models in the industry. Based on learnings from millions of shoppers and tens of thousands of global merchants, Afterpay’s AI-powered risk model approves more than 90% of all customer-attempted transactions. This means merchants access an entirely new segment of customers, driving incremental sales. Plus, Afterpay takes on customer fraud risk so you can rest easy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>But don’t take our word for it:</h3>
<p>Afterpay has 24M global annual actives as of December 2023.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“By adding Afterpay to our other payment options, we’re able to provide a more customized shopping experience, give our customers additional convenience and control and reach a younger demographic who may not have been able to shop with us before.”</p>
<p><b>– John Strain, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Gap, Inc.</b><br />
<i>(as quoted in SourcingJournal.com)</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Afterpay operates as Clearpay in the UK — <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/clearpay/">learn more</a>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005369707" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WooCommerce_Cash-App-Afterpay-Payments_896x550px_Tile-4.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="550" /></p>

Afterpay

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Afterpay allows customers to purchase products and choose to pay in four installments over six weeks or pay monthly (US only).</span></p>

Stripe vs Afterpay