Locked Payment Methods for WooCommerce

Locked Payment Methods is a WooCommerce extension for hiding enabled payment methods from customers that haven’t been granted access to them yet.

A typical use-case involves locking high-risk payment methods like Cash on delivery or Pay by invoice but you can choose to lock any payment method supported by WooCommerce for any reason.

By locking them, these payment methods are automatically removed from the WooCommerce checkout page for any customer that hasn’t been granted access. You can then choose to grant access on a case-by-case basis or based on other objective criteria for logged-in users that you trust. Everyone else will be forced to check out using any of the other payment methods that your store provides.

Granting your customers access to a locked payment method

There are multiple pre-bundled ways of to grant a customer access to a locked payment method. They are all documented in our knowledge base:

• Grant access to each customer individually (read more)
• Grant access to all customers belonging to given user roles (read more)
• [Premium] Grant access for only one unpaid order (read more)
• [Premium] Grant access to all users with an active WC Memberships plan (read more)
• [Premium] Grant access to all users belonging to a Groups group (read more)

Premium support and features

Some of the unlocking strategies mentioned above are only bundled with the premium version of our plugin available here. It is perfectly possible, however, to use the free version and extend it via filters and actions with your own lock/unlock strategies.

Premium customers are also entitled to prioritized help and support through our support forum.