Accept online payments through Maksu directly from your WooCommerce store
The Maksu Online Payments Gateway connects your WooCommerce store with Maksu, a licensed European online payment provider designed for businesses of all sizes.
Add a secure online payment option to your checkout without building a custom payment integration. Once configured, customers can select Maksu during checkout and complete their payment through Maksu’s secure payment flow.
Depending on the payment methods activated for your Maksu merchant account, you can give customers access to cards, digital wallets, local payment methods, alternative payment methods, and Instant SEPA Account-to-Account payments.
Why use Maksu Online Payments for WooCommerce?
Give customers more ways to pay
Offer the payment methods your customers know and trust. Maksu Online Payments supports more than 70 payment methods, including cards, digital wallets, local payment methods, and A2A (Account-to-account) payment options.
The payment methods available in your WooCommerce checkout depend on your country, business type, currency, and Maksu merchant agreement.
Add payments without a custom integration
The WooCommerce gateway provides a straightforward way to connect your online store to Maksu.
Install the plugin, enter the credentials supplied with your Maksu account, and activate the payment gateway from your WooCommerce settings. No separate custom payment integration is required for the standard WooCommerce setup.
Provide a secure payment experience
Maksu Online Payments combines secure payment processing with:
- 3-D Secure authentication
- Fraud-prevention capabilities
- PCI DSS-compliant payment infrastructure
- Secure transaction processing
- Merchant and transaction monitoring
- Regulated European payment services
Maksu is a European Payment Institution licensed by the Austrian Financial Market Authority.
Improve payment operations and cash-flow visibility
Maksu helps merchants manage online payments through a combination of WooCommerce order information and Maksu payment reporting.
Depending on your selected package and merchant agreement, available services can include:
- Daily settlement cycles
- Payment reporting and analytics
- Transaction reconciliation
- Recurring payments
- Payment links
- Network tokenization
- Multi-language checkout support
- Dedicated customer success support
- 24/7 online support
Test the integration before accepting live payments
You can create a Maksu sandbox account and test the payment experience before activating live payment processing.
The sandbox environment allows you to:
- Install and configure the WooCommerce gateway
- Connect your store using sandbox credentials
- Place test orders
- Test successful, unsuccessful, and cancelled payment flows
- Check how payment results are reflected in WooCommerce
- Review the customer journey before going live
** Create a sandbox account here **
Select Create Sandbox account, complete the registration form, and submit your request. Use the sandbox credentials supplied by Maksu to configure the plugin in test mode.
Do not enter real payment details or production credentials while using the sandbox environment.
How the payment flow works
- The customer adds products to the WooCommerce cart.
- The customer continues to checkout.
- The customer selects Maksu as the payment method.
- The customer is directed to the secure Maksu payment flow.
- The customer selects an available payment method and completes the payment.
- Maksu processes the transaction and returns the payment result.
- The corresponding WooCommerce order is updated based on the transaction result.
The exact checkout experience and available payment methods depend on the configuration of your Maksu merchant account.
Start accepting payments with Maksu Online Payments
A sandbox account is intended for integration testing only. To accept real customer payments, you must complete the Maksu merchant onboarding and business-verification process.
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During onboarding, you may be asked to provide company, ownership, website, business model, settlement, and compliance information. Once your merchant account has been approved, Maksu will provide the production credentials required to connect your WooCommerce store to the live payment environment.
Maksu’s AI-powered KYC and KYB onboarding is designed to help eligible merchants complete verification and prepare for live payment processing within less than 24 hours.
Built for growing online businesses
The Maksu Online Payments WooCommerce gateway can be used by:
- Startups and new online stores
- Sole traders and small businesses
- Growing e-commerce merchants
- Regional and international online retailers
- Subscription-based businesses
- Businesses that require local and alternative payment methods
- High-volume merchants with customized payment requirements
Maksu provides standard packages for smaller and growing merchants as well as customizable solutions for larger businesses and more complex payment environments.
Requirements
Before installing and activating the gateway, make sure that you have:
- An active WordPress website
- WooCommerce installed and activated
- A Maksu sandbox or approved live merchant account
- The credentials supplied for the selected environment
- HTTPS and a valid SSL certificate for live payment processing
- A supported store currency
- A publicly accessible checkout and payment-return page
- Permission to install and configure WordPress plugins
Your WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions must also meet the technical requirements stated in the current plugin release.
Documentation and support
Developer documentation, APIs, test tools and integration resources are available through the Maksu Developer Portal: https://developer.maksupay.com/
For commercial questions, merchant onboarding, or assistance selecting a payment package, visit: https://maksupay.com/
For integration support, include the following information when contacting the Maksu support team:
- Your business or merchant name
- Your WordPress and WooCommerce versions
- The Maksu plugin version
- Whether you are using sandbox or live mode
- The affected WooCommerce order number
- The approximate date and time of the test
- The error message displayed
- Relevant WooCommerce logs, excluding private keys and sensitive credentials
Never send passwords, complete private keys, or live payment credentials through unsecured email or public support forums.