Corey McKrill 12:13 pm on July 10, 2018

Stripe is now available to all WordCamps

We just pushed out a big update to CampTix (the plugin for selling event tickets, written for WordCamp) on the WordCamp.org network. The main change is that Stripe is now included as a default payment method — until now it was a separate, beta plugin that had to be enabled on a per-site basis.

Stripe is a credit card processor that supports a lot of currencies, so this will allow WordCamps to support online ticket purchases in several places where we couldn’t before. For new WordCamp sites, Stripe will be enabled by default, instead of PayPal, though you will still be able to turn on PayPal if needed (the payment configuration for existing WordCamp sites won’t be affected).

WordCamps that already had the separate Stripe plugin enabled should experience a seamless transition.

You can see a full changelog of recent updates to CampTix here.

If you notice any problems with Stripe transactions or other things in CampTix, please post them in the meta-wordcamp channel in WP Slack so that we can troubleshoot them as quickly as possible.

Thanks to @vedjain, @andreamiddleton, and @iandunn for all of their work on this project, @dd32 for writing the original Stripe plugin for CampTix, and @indralukmana, @eliw, @imath, @JulienMelissas, and @juanfra for ideas and code contributions that went into this release.

Ulrich 12:26 pm on July 10, 2018

This is great news! It would be interesting to see if we save money with stripe.

Mathieu Viet 12:51 pm on July 10, 2018

Awesome work 💪👏 Congrats everyone 👍

Courtney P.K. 3:49 pm on July 10, 2018

Hooray! Thanks, team, for all your work on this. 😄

Arun Sathiya 3:08 am on July 12, 2018

Stripe checkout experience is an absolute bliss! Kudos to everyone involved! ♥️

Timi Wahalahti 8:23 am on July 23, 2018

Awesome! Nice work from the whole team, you are all amazing <3

Sjoerd Blom 2:06 pm on August 9, 2018

Great to see the Stripe service. Will we be soon offering national payment methods (iDeal, Mr Cash and Giropay) that are supported by Stripe as well? I know there are still people around who don’t have credit cards but only a bank card. Would be nice if we could offer those national payment methods as well, people keep asking why we only offer Paypal and/or credit cards and not the national payment method. It shouldn’t be too difficult now Stripe is the default payment gateway.

Corey McKrill 5:49 pm on August 9, 2018

@vertizio Good question. The Stripe integration that is built into CampTix does not currently use Stripe’s Sources API, which is required for accepting payment methods such as iDEAL and Giropay. Between the current Stripe credit card processing and PayPal (which can be linked to bank accounts), we’re able to accept payments from most people in most places that WordCamps are happening, so there aren’t any plans at this point to add more payment methods to the core CampTix plugin.

However, as has happened in the past for country-specific payment methods such as Instamojo and Razorpay in India, it’s possible to add more payment methods to CampTix via a separate plugin. If someone in the community wants to build a plugin for iDEAL (or perhaps one for the Sources API that could include several of these country-specific payment methods), it could certainly be added to the WordCamp.org network, and I agree that it would be a nice addition for people without credit cards.

Cami Kaos 3:58 pm on August 10, 2018

Three cheers! So happy to come back and see this implemented!

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