How to use WooCommerce Payment Gateways

Setting up WooCommerce on your Houzez-powered website is the key to accepting secure and flexible online payments from your users. WooCommerce gives you access to a wide range of payment gateways — including PayPal, Stripe, and dozens of others available through WooCommerce extensions.

By integrating WooCommerce with Houzez, you can easily manage transactions, track payments, and offer your customers multiple checkout options, all while keeping the process simple and familiar. Houzez also supports WooCommerce’s core pages and checkout flow, ensuring a smooth, fully compatible user experience from start to finish.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to enable WooCommerce in Houzez in just a few steps, from installing the required plugins to configuring your payment pages and settings.

Follow these steps to integrate WooCommerce with Houzez and start receiving payments.

Step 1 – Install the Houzez Woo Addon Plugin

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for Houzez Woo Addon.
3. Click Install, then Activate.

This addon connects Houzez with WooCommerce for payment processing.

Step 2 – Install and Activate WooCommerce

1. Go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for WooCommerce.
3. Click Install, then Activate.

Once activated, WooCommerce will guide you through its initial setup wizard. You can also configure payment gateways later from WooCommerce → Settings → Payments.

Step 3 – Enable WooCommerce in Houzez Theme Options

1. In your dashboard, go to Theme Options → Payment Gateways.
2. Under Select Payment Gateway, choose WooCommerce.

This tells Houzez to process all membership and property submission payments through WooCommerce.

Step 4 – Configure Checkout, Cart, and My Account Pages

WooCommerce automatically creates the following essential pages:

• Checkout
• Cart
• My Account

To ensure they work correctly with Houzez:

1. Go to Pages in your dashboard and locate each of these pages.
   • Checkout
   • Cart
   • My Account
2. Edit each page and apply the following settings:
   • Page Attributes → Template: Select the default template.
   • Sidebar: Set to None.
   • Page Background: Set to Yes.

Notes & Recommendations

• Payment Gateways: You can enable and configure gateways in WooCommerce → Settings → Payments.
• SSL Certificate: Always use HTTPS when processing payments to ensure security.
• Testing Payments: Before going live, use the sandbox/test mode provided by your chosen gateway to verify the checkout process.