Covers WooCommerce payments and options for payments in Nigeria, as well as tips for protecting your customers' information. Presented at CMS Africa 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria.

1. WooCommerce
payments in growing
economies
Hannah Swain
WooCommerce Happiness Engineer
@hannahswaineu

2. Introduction to WooCommerce

3. With 20,899,487 downloads,
WooCommerce powers over
28% of all online stores.

4. WooCommerce
checkout process
Add product
to cart
Take a
look at
the cart
Proceed to
checkout
to pay
Fill in address,
choose shipping
and payment
(Gateway
dependent:
complete
payment)
Receive and
confirm order
Ship order

5. Choosing a payment gateway

6. Payment gateway
considerations
• E-commerce shop location
• Cost
• Security
• Single point of failure

7. Payment gateways in
WooCommerce
Manual gateways
• Bank transfer
• Cheque
• Cash on delivery (CoD)
Automated gateways
• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Direct debit

8. Payment gateways
available in Nigeria
Manual gateways
• Bank transfer
• Mobile Money
• Cash on delivery
(CoD)
Automated gateways
• Interswitch
• Paga
• SimplePay
• VoguePay

9. Protecting your customers’ data
Respect your customers’ data and
treat it as your own.

10. Don’t ever save unencrypted customer
credit cards on your site.

11. SSL
Encrypt information for secure
transmission

12. Choose extensions from
trustworthy sources

13. Helpful plugins
Things to think about
• Prevention
• Scans
• Backups
Recommended plugins
• Jetpack
• Wordfence
• Sucuri

14. tl;dr
• WooCommerce lets you sell all the things
via WordPress
• Consider location, cost and security when
choosing a gateway plugin
• Protect your customers’ data by using
SSL, choosing extensions from
trustworthy sources and installing
preventative plugins