WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

9.5.3 – 2025-06-23

• Fix – Reimplement mapping of Express Checkout state values to align with WooCommerce’s expected state formats
• Fix – Adds an exception to be thrown when the order item quantity is zero, during the retrieval of level 3 data from an order
• Fix – Ensure that we migrate payment_request_button_size=medium on upgrade
• Fix – Show correct price in Express Checkout for zero decimal currencies
• Fix – Fixes a possible fatal error with Multibanco purchases when generating the email instructions
• Fix – Fix buggy unsaved changes warning in settings page
• Fix – Use the platform’s payment method configuration id constant when rendering the Optimized Checkout
• Update – Improve checks in voucher purchase flow
• Tweak – Track charge completed via webhooks in order notes

9.5.2 – 2025-05-22

• Add – Implement custom database cache for persistent caching with in-memory optimization
• Update – Remove feature that flags 401s and proactively blocks subsequent API calls until the store has reauthenticated
• Fix – Disable payment settings sync when we receive unsupported payment method configurations
• Fix – Ensure that we use current Stripe API keys after settings updates
• Fix – Fix initial enabled payment methods migration to the Stripe Payment Methods Configuration API

9.5.1 – 2025-05-17

• Fix – Add a fetch cooldown to the payment method configuration retrieval endpoint to prevent excessive requests
• Fix – Prevent further Stripe API calls if API keys are invalid (401 response)
• Fix – Stop checking for detached subscriptions for admin users, as it was slowing down wp-admin
• Fix – Fix fatal error when checking for a payment method availability using a specific order ID

9.5.0 – 2025-05-13

New Features

• Synchronize payment methods with the Stripe dashboard – if you’ve connected to Stripe, changes in payment methods are synchronized between the plugin and your Stripe dashboard. Changes from the Stripe dashboard may take a few minutes to flow through to shoppers.
• Support Pre-authorized Debit (PAD) payments in Canada and the US
• Support BLIK payments in Poland and from other EU countries
• Support BECS Direct Debit payments in Australia

Important Fixes and Updates

• Update – Add express checkout support for One Page Checkout and other dynamic cart update scenarios
• Fix – Show error notice when ‘Add payment method’ fails on My Account page in block-based themes
• Add – Add WordPress Action for processing payments with delayed charge attempts due to pre-debit notification period
• Fix – Add caching for the Stripe Payment Method Configuration API
• Fix – Prevent deletion of webhooks for other tools
• Update – Add support for customer order notes and express checkout
• Add – New filter to allow merchants to bypass the default visibility of the express payment method buttons when taxes are based on customer’s billing address (wc_stripe_should_hide_express_checkout_button_based_on_tax_setup)
• Fix – Improves the subscriptions detached admin notice, making it less intrusive and limiting the querying to 5 subscriptions (avoiding slow loading times)
• Fix – Fixes an issue where the order signature retrieval method could throw a fatal error when the received order parameter is actually an OrderRefund object (instead of a WC_Order)
• Fix – Fixes a possible fatal error when a product added to the cart cannot be found (with Payment Request Buttons)
• Fix – Fixed subscription features not being properly registered when hooks were already attached
• Add – Expand Klarna support to some additional countries in EEA
• Update – Hide express checkout buttons when no product variation is selected
• Fix – Express checkout error when using extensions that reduce total cart amount (e.g. Gift Cards)
• Fix – Checkout page focus loss
• Fix – Updated payment method radio button selector to correctly find the selected payment method in different themes
• Fix – Add wc_stripe_generate_create_intent_request filter to support mandate information in setup intent creation
• Fix – Prepare mandate data from subscription object on change payment method page

Other Fixes

• Fix – Checks for the existence of the WC_Stripe_Feature_Flags class before including it during extension initialization
• Fix – Prevents fatal errors for cases where we fail to load product details
• Fix – Address an edge case with webhook URL comparisons
• Add – Only show payment methods in Stripe settings that are available for the connected Stripe account
• Fix – Show correct gateway name in non payments settings pages
• Fix – Fixes the Stripe checkout container visuals when Smart Checkout is disabled
• Fix – Prevent reuse of payment intents when order total doesn’t match intent amount
• Fix – Fix invalid IP address error encountered during mandate data creation
• Fix – Compatibility with email preview in the Auth Requested email
• Update – Update Alipay and bank debit icons
• Tweak – Update payment method type check for charge.succeeded webhook
• Add – Disable unsupported payment methods in Stripe settings
• Update – Update handling of Puerto Rico as a country in the terminal locations endpoint
• Fix – Fix express checkout button width in shortcode cart page
• Fix – Translation warning when initializing the status page information
• Update – Remove unused express checkout button tracking
• Tweak – Add save payment method parameter to update intent call for non-deferred intent payment methods
• Update – Back button on the settings pages
• Update – Use individual product tax status instead of storewide tax setup when determining express checkout availability
• Dev – Add tracking events when enabling/disabling payment methods.

Internal Changes and Upcoming Features

• Feature – Work to support Optimized Checkout
• Feature – Work to support Amazon Pay
• Dev – Splits the code coverage GitHub Actions Workflow into two separate actions
• Dev – Updates the Code Sniffer package to version 1.0.0.
• Dev – Minor fix to e2e setup code
• Dev – Make PHP error log from Docker container available in docker/logs/php/error.log
• Dev – Do not generate filenames with underscores
• Dev – Replaces references to order status values with their respective constants from the WooCommerce plugin.
• Dev – Introduce new payment method constants for the express methods: Google Pay, Apple Pay, Link, and Amazon Pay (backend version)
• Dev – Improves how we handle express payment method titles by introducing new constants and methods to replace duplicate code.

See changelog for full details across versions.