Stripe

Stripe is a payment gateway provider. The company is worth $22.5 billion and has made Irish brothers John and Patrick Collison into some of the world’s youngest billionaires.

As our Managing Director, Robin Scott, says:

“It’s worth it. They have changed payments for the better.”

Stripe also happens to be the payment gateway we most often recommend to WooCommerce merchants.

Find out all about the functionality and use cases of Stripe services in the articles below.

Want help setting up a Stripe checkout for your business? Get in touch.

Case Study: Stripe Extension for WooCommerce Fix for SAYHELLO Creative – Digital Agency to the Hospitality Industry

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SAYHELLO Creative delivers turn-key solutions through comprehensive creative digital services that are tailored for the hospitality industry. Silicon Dales assisted the talented team at SAYHELLO with a client development site. The Stripe extension for WooCommerce wasn’t working as expected and so the programmers at Silicon Dales launched into troubleshooting the code for potential errors or …

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How to manually process payments in Stripe

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 …

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What do I need to do about Strong Customer Authentication?

If you have a WooCommerce store which uses the Stripe integration, you might have received a message like this one recently: “New tools in the Dashboard to prepare for SCA” Hello, Last month, we wrote to tell you about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new European regulatory requirement that will require two-factor authentication on many …

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The Silicon Dales Guide to PSD2

Introduction The Silicon Dales Guide to the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 introduces the main ways in which PSD2 will affect online retail, specifically through WooCommerce. The EU has produced a really good helpsheet here. PSD2 entered into force on 13th January 2018. The purpose of PSD2 is to increase competition and security. It will achieve …

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