American Express – sometimes abbreviated to Amex – is a Credit Card which consumers often like for the reward scheme, but which can carry relatively high transaction costs for merchants.
Supporting Amex cards is therefore something which needs a little thought when it comes to eCommerce stores.
At Silicon Dales, we help clients to make an informed decision when it comes to payment options offered on their web stores.
Stripe has probably the best Amex pricing out there. As developers, we like working with Stripe for WooCommerce, because it works.
Ever wanted to manually process credit or debit cards through Stripe, without putting them through your web store or invoicing software – for example to collect a payment over the phone? Is this even possible? The answer is, yes, this is possible, via Stripe’s online dashboard – the precise description for how to do this …
Please note that the snippet in this post applied to the WooCommerce Stripe extension before version 4.0 was released. If you are on version 4.x.x (or greater) this may not work for you! If you use the WooCommerce payment Gateway Stripe – and why wouldn’t you, it rocks rocks rocks! – and your currency is …
