send-to-mpesa-payment-gateway

Great work. Very helpful plugin

Awesome plugin. Great for small eCommerce websites.

Good effort. Sad that it doesn’t authenticate the details supplied. You can enter the wrong phone number and any Mpesa transaction code and get your order processed. I’d therefore discourage using this on platforms selling digital products where the customer gains access immediately after clicking the checkout button

Came across this plugin when trying to set up a small ecommerce site. I was looking for an MPESA payment gateway and was only able to find plugins that require you to pay upwards of 5k to integrate with your site. This plugin gave me a solution especially considering i was just starting and a simple and free plugin would be of great help. So this plugin enables you to provide payment details in the check out page. A customer sends money to your number then confirms the details on the form provided before the order goes through. The challenge with the plugin however it cannot confirm the details provided in real time. You have to log into your dashboard and confirm the payment. So it is very crucial to have the order move to ‘processing’ status instead of ‘completed’ status which allows customers who haven’t really paid to download digital product files if available. To do this add, this code to your child theme functions.php //change order status from completed to processing to allow for manual payment confirmation add_action( ‘woocommerce_order_status_completed’, ‘completed_to_processing’); function completed_to_processing($order_id){ $order = new WC_Order($order_id); $order->update_status(‘processing’); } Otherwise, all is good.

A long overdue solution to Small and medium businesses. Another great product from Joe Njenga . Implementing it , so far so good. Consider rolling it to entire WordPress not only woocommerce.