[Feature Request]: Add Stripe Hosted Checkout as a Payment Option

[avs-22]

Feature Request: Add Stripe Hosted Checkout as a Payment Option

Summary:
I’d like to request a feature enhancement to the official WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin: the ability to enable Stripe Hosted Checkout (https://stripe.com/payments/checkout) as an optional payment method.

Why This Matters:

• Improved Trust and Conversion Rates: Hosted Checkout visually reinforces that the payment is secure by redirecting the customer to a Stripe-branded page. For stores with high-ticket items or high Average Order Values (AOV), this can increase payment completion rates, as customers perceive the off-site Stripe checkout as more secure and trustworthy.

• Simplified Apple Pay / Google Pay: Stripe Hosted Checkout supports native wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay without requiring merchants to verify their domain, simplifying setup significantly.

• Lower PCI Compliance Burden: Hosted Checkout can reduce PCI scope since the payment is handled entirely off-site by Stripe.

Suggested Implementation:

• Add a toggle in the plugin settings to enable "Stripe Hosted Checkout" as a payment method.

• Allow merchants to select between:

  • On-site payment using Elements (current behavior)
  • Redirect to Stripe Hosted Checkout (new behavior):
  • Or both
    On the checkout page the customer will have the option to pay with credit card as normal or select stripe hosted checkout as a payment option which could have a message stating something like "You’ll be redirected to a secure Stripe payment page to complete your checkout using your preferred payment method (Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.).

• Ideally, allow configuration of:

  • Success and cancel URLs
  • Shipping settings
  • Product line item details passed to Stripe Checkout

Conclusion:

Adding Hosted Checkout support would bring this plugin in line with Stripe’s modern capabilities and give WooCommerce merchants a powerful, conversion-optimized option for secure payments.

Please consider this for a future release or share if there’s a roadmap item already in progress for this.

Thank you!

[wjrosa]

Thanks for the suggestion, @avs-22! We will evaluate the feature internally and get back to you.

[avs-22]

Thats great! Thanks @wjrosa!

[wjrosa]

Hey @avs-22! We talked about this feature internally and decided not to proceed with it for now. It does not fit the current goals of the product. We may be able to reconsider it in the future. If that happens, you will be notified here. Thanks again for suggesting it!