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Free Plugin by Eugen Mihailescu v0.2-1.1

Woo Braintree Payment

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Woo Braintree Payment

The facts

Rating
3.5★ from 8
Active installs
10+
Price
Free
Last updated
17 Jan 2017
Added
Oct 2015
Downloads
4,882

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Woo Braintree Payment is a WordPress plugin that allows WooCommerce merchants to accept payments via debit/credit cards and PayPal through Braintree, a PayPal company. It provides a new payment method on the WooCommerce checkout page, enabling customers to enter their card details securely. The plugin is designed with PCI DSS compliance in mind, ensuring that card information is exchanged directly between the customer and the Braintree gateway.

The plugin offers various integration types, including Custom UI, Drop-in UI, and Hosted Fields, and supports multiple card issuers and currencies. It allows for customization of the checkout card form and includes features such as card validation and the option to manage payment risks. This plugin is suitable for WooCommerce store owners looking to expand their payment options securely.

Best for: WooCommerce store owners seeking a secure payment gateway solution.

What it does well

  • Enables acceptance of credit card and PayPal payments via Braintree
  • Built with PCI DSS compliance for secure transactions
  • Supports multiple card issuers and currencies
  • Offers various UI integration types for checkout
  • Allows customization of the card form and validation

Where it falls short

  • Some features may not be included in the free version
  • Limited active installs and low directory score may indicate limited support or reliability

Verdict

Woo Braintree Payment provides essential payment processing features for WooCommerce, though its limited active installs and directory score suggest potential areas for improvement.

From the developer

Eugen Mihailescu's own description of Woo Braintree Payment, lightly tidied.

Woo Braintree Payment is a plug-in that enables WooCommerce merchants to accept debit/credit card and/or PayPal payments via the Braintree – a PayPal company. Braintree is a Level 1 PCI-DSS compliant service provider.

Our plug-in extends the WooCommerce by defining a new (card) payment method called Braintree. As such the WooCommerce checkout page offers a new payment method – Credit card – with three fields: a card number, card expiry date and the Card Code Verification (aka CCV or CVC).

The plug-in is built with PCI DSS in mind. The card information is exchanged exclusively between the card holder and the Braintree gateway – a Level 1 PCI DSS service provider. This is very important if you want your webshop to be Level 3 PCI-DSS compliant (and you, as a merchant, should be!).

The plug-in allows various levels of card customization, from its aspect (via custom CSS) to functionality. Nevertheless it allows you to configure it and train its functionalities in a Sandbox environment and finally, when you are ready, just switch it to production mode with one click. See a comparision between Sandbox mode and Production mode.

Major features included(*) in Woo Braintree Payment

  • Three different UI integration types with your WooCommerce checkout form: Custom UI, Drop-in UI and Hosted Fields integration
  • Complies with the PCI DSS rules in all its integration types (ie. Custom UI, Drop-in UI and Hosted Fields)
  • Support for the most common cards issued by Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, AmericanExpress, Discover, Diner’s Club and JCB.
  • Support for payments in 130+ local currencies
  • Support for multiple merchant accounts (ie USD orders funds go into your USD account, EUR orders funds go into your EUR account, etc)
  • Supports card validation through the card issuer’s 3D-Secure layer (eg. Verified by VISA)
  • Manages the payment risk for the non-3DS cards by setting a payment threshold for any of the supported currency and additionally via AVS rules
  • Checkout card form customization for all integration types (ie. Custom UI, Drop-in UI and Hosted Fields)
    • define and display the accepted card issuers (eg. Visa, MasterCard, etc)
    • enable/disable the CCV/CVC as mandatory
    • validate the card data on the fly (while users type-in)
    • set your custom cards validation (regex) rules
    • show/hide the card and/or the PCI compliance badges on the checkout form
    • customize the card badges position on the checkout form
    • customize the card form/fields using custom CSS
    • support your custom language (only Custom UI and Hosted Fields integration)

    (*) Please note that some of these features are not included in the free version. See here a comparison between the free and Pro versions. Check also the 30+ full feature list or the 40+ screenshots gallery that reveals the most of these features at work.

    It was tested and works with IE8+ and all versions of Chrome, Firefox or Opera. It works both on desktop systems as well as on mobile devices. Works on any IIS6+/Apache/Nginx web server that has PHP5.3+, WordPress 3.3+ and WooCommerce 1.6.6+ up and running. Nonetheless it is WordPress multisite aware.

    Premium Support

    The users of the free version hosted by wordpress.org are welcome to use our free online support resources such as guides, tutorials, FAQ, Knowledge Base and YouTube channel videos. Read more here.

    However, if you need dedicated one-time assistance regarding installation, getting/setting the right Braintree credentials, internal/sandbox testing, or if you just need ongoing support, we are here to help you. More about this here.

    Woo Braintree Payment – PRO version

    This plug-in comes in two different flavors:

    • Woo Braintree Payment – the free edition of this plug-in hosted at WordPress.org. This edition should be just fine for the average merchant.
    • Woo Braintree Payment – PRO – the premium edition which is hosted by ourselves. It is oriented towards those merchants who need a more robust and customizable WooCommerce credit card payment plug-in. For a comparison between the two editions please see a features comparison matrix.

    How it works

    1. First you need to sign up for a Braintree account. You will get an unique merchant ID which is linked to a single bank account/currency. You may setup your Braintree account such that you may have different bank accounts corresponding to different currencies.
    2. When the customer places a shopping order the plug-in will send on your behalf a request to the Braintree Payment Gateway to authorize the sale transaction. By doing that the Braintree will charge your customer the amount specified by the customer order’s total amount.
    3. If the transaction is authorized (ie. the card is valid and has enough funds for the transaction) then in order to collect the founds the transaction is going to be settled. After a transaction is settled, funds will pass through your merchant account to your bank account.

    Read this to understand the transaction life cycle from the merchant’s perspective or maybe this to get an in depth technical insight.

    Read the full description on the official page →

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