Hi @mdc2957
Here is a description taken directly from the plugin’s Universal Payment Method settings page:
Stripe payment method that lets you combine all payment methods into a single integration.
The Universal Payment Method (UPM) allows you to combine all payment methods into a single integration. On your checkout page, the UPM will show all of the enabled payment methods that are eligible.
Are we supposed to use that or the payment methods in the other tabs, or both?
That’s entirely up to you and how you want to configure your checkout experience. The UPM allows you to combine payment methods into a single integration so it’s good for merchants that offer many payment methods and don’t want to clutter their checkout page. There’s also built in logic where the UPM will render the highest converting payment methods based on your customer’s location.
An example of how a merchant might want to setup the UPM:
- Credit Card Gateway stand alone
- Apple Pay stand alone
- UPM with CashApp, Revolut, iDEAL.
This way, instead of having 5 payment methods cluttering your checkout page, you can have three.
Kind Regards
Ok thank you for the clarification. As a follow up, under the “Payment Method Configuration (live mode)” there are three in the dropdown box. How do I know which one to choose? What is sync (sync to what?) or am I supposed to Add a new one? Again, I checked the docs, nothing about this that I could find.
How do I know which one to choose?
Since you aren’t sure what the difference is between those existing payment method configurations, I recommend you create a new one and give it a descriptive name that pertains to your website.
The “sync” button syncs the locally stored payment method configuration with the payment method configuration object stored within Stripe. If you modify the payment method configuration on stripe.com, those changes aren’t automatically reflected in your WordPress database. Therefore the sync option ensures the values always match. If you’re modifying the payment method config object in the plugin settings then you don’t need to sync.
Kind Regards
Ok, I added a new one, and looked to see that the methods match between stripe and the plugin, but some of the ones I chose don’t show up in the check out. Maybe it takes time?
but some of the ones I chose don’t show up in the check out
The payment methods that show depend on their eligibility. The Stripe plugin feeds the cart amount and currency to Stripe and their internal logic determines what payment methods should show.
For example, if you enabled Cashapp in the UPM, it won’t show on the checkout page if your store currency is anything other than USD.
Oh ok, so they’re dependent on certain factors. In that case, I guess it would be best to enable several since they’re not all going to show up for maximum convenience to customers around the world?