WooCommerce Payment Gateway

Overview

The WooCommerce Payment Gateway addon lets you accept trip payments through payment methods supported by WooCommerce.

WooCommerce is a separate WordPress plugin that handles online payments and checkout. This addon connects WooCommerce to WP Travel Engine so your travelers can pay for trips through your WooCommerce payment setup.

This is useful if you want to offer payment methods that already work with WooCommerce. For example, you might use it for a one-day city tour, a multi-day trek, or a seasonal package with optional add-ons like gear rental.

Once this is set up, your customers will move from trip booking to WooCommerce checkout. We will start with what you need before you begin.

What you'll need before you start

Before you begin, make sure the required plugins are installed and up to date.

You can follow the video or the below steps to configure the WooCommerce Payment Gateway.\

Install the WooCommerce Payment Gateway addon

You need the addon installed before you can turn on WooCommerce payments for your trips.

Once both plugins are in place, you are ready to turn the gateway on inside WP Travel Engine.

Turn on the WooCommerce gateway

This tells WP Travel Engine to send your trip bookings to WooCommerce for payment.

After this, WP Travel Engine can use WooCommerce during checkout. Next, make sure the correct checkout page is selected.

Set the WooCommerce checkout page

When you enable this gateway, WP Travel Engine automatically assigns a checkout page for each trip.

If no page is assigned, or if you want to use a different one, you can choose it yourself. This matters because it controls where your customer lands when they are ready to pay.

For example, if you sell both private day tours and longer group treks, you may want all bookings to go through one checkout page that matches the rest of your site.

Once the checkout page is set, your customers will have a clear path from trip selection to payment. The last setup step is to match your currency.

Match the currency in WooCommerce

WP Travel Engine and WooCommerce need to use the same currency.

If the currencies do not match, your prices can appear differently during checkout. That can confuse customers and create extra work for you.

For example, if your Everest base camp trek is priced in USD in WP Travel Engine, WooCommerce should also be set to USD. The same applies if you use NPR, EUR, or any other currency for your tours.

Once the currency matches, your setup is ready for live bookings. Now it helps to know what the customer experience looks like.

What the trip checkout looks like for your customer

After you finish the setup, a customer who books a trip and moves to payment is sent to the WooCommerce Checkout page.

On that page, the customer fills in the required booking details and chooses one of the available payment methods from WooCommerce. After the payment is complete, the customer is taken to the WooCommerce Order Received page.

This is the point where the booking and payment come together. For example, a traveler booking a weekend hiking trip can review their details, pay through your active WooCommerce gateway, and then see the order confirmation page right away.