=== RainbowPayPress === Contributors: maratbn Tags: Stripe, accept payments, accept credit card, accept credit card payments, pay, payment, credit card, pay online, sell online Requires at least: 3.8.1 Tested up to: 4.4.2 Stable tag: 2.2.0 License: GPLv3 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html Easy way to accept credit card payments via Stripe by embedding Stripe checkouts via shortcodes. == Description == Overview: This plugin facilitates selling of products and services on any public page of a WordPress website, and accepting credit card payments for these products and services via the Stripe payment processor. Because this plugin facilitates credit card payment processing specifically via Stripe, it is able to leverage the main security feature of that service, in that the credit card numbers are sent to the Stripe servers directly via their Checkout API, and never to the server running the website. Because the credit card numbers are physically absent from the website server, the operators of the website server are not subject to various government regulations that might have otherwise come into effect had their server indeed stored credit card numbers. And obviously, even if the website server or its storage get compromised by criminals, there simply would not be any credit card numbers for them to steal. The way this plugin is used, is that first, the administrators specify which products and services are being sold, their descriptions, prices, etc. by inserting special shortcodes with that information directly into the pages and posts on which they want to render the user payment buttons for these sales. When site visitors load these pages, they see the associated payment buttons, clicking on which opens payment entry forms. Submitting a payment creates a "pending transaction", details of which can be automatically emailed to the site operator(s). For each pending transaction, site administrators can click a special "Charge" button on the plugin's admin page to charge that transaction via Stripe. This creates a record for the customer and the charge on the Stripe servers, from which point the transaction can be administered via the Stripe website as any other Stripe transaction. Stripe test transactions are also supported. These are transactions in which no actual real credit card gets charged. Currently only USD are supported. Technical summary and special considerations: Initially, buyer identity, stored partially on the website server, is tied to their credit card number stored entirely on Stripe servers, via a special "Stripe Token", which is obtained directly from Stripe, via the plugin's JavaScript logic, running in the buyer's browser. For this reason, JavaScript needs to be enabled in the buyer's browser. Plugin relies on special server-side PHP library stripe-php to communicate with the Stripe servers to direct them to charge credit cards. This PHP library in turn relies on PHP cURL support enabled on the server. The plugin will check if this support is enabled, and will issue admin dashboard notification if it is not, which will also give advise on how to enable it. If website administrators wish to enable automatic email notifications, they would need to insure that a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) is properly configured on their website server. Even when the MTA is properly configured, the email notifications are still likely to get filtered by SPAM filters, so adjustment of SPAM filters might also be needed. Requires: * PHP version >= 5.4 * PHP cURL support enabled (Install module 'php5-curl' on Debian / Ubuntu) * Proper Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) configuration for notification emails. Official project URLs: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rainbowpaypress https://github.com/maratbn/RainbowPayPress == Installation == 1. Unzip contents of `rainbowpaypress.zip` into the directory `/wp-content/plugins/rainbowpaypress/`. 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. == Frequently Asked Questions == = What do I do if I get this error "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error." when trying to activate? = Upgrade to PHP >= 5.4 See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashes-on-activate Make sure to check your PHP version with https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-php-version/ = Where can I ask a question about RainbowPayPress? = Ask your questions at: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rainbowpaypress = Where can I post issues / bugs / feature requests? = Post issues / bugs / feature requests at: https://github.com/maratbn/RainbowPayPress/issues = Where can I post pull requests? = Post pull requests at: https://github.com/maratbn/RainbowPayPress/pulls = Plugin is missing feature X that I really want, what do I do? = Post a bug / feature request, or implement the feature at your leisure, and submit a pull request. = Where do I get the publish and secret keys needed for plugin's configuration? = From your Stripe account. = Why are notification emails not sending? = Check if you have a mail transfer agent (MTA) installed and properly configured on your server. Also check your SPAM folder. == Changelog == = 2.2.0 = * Added ability to ask buyer for shipping address. * Split-out the plugin's admin page into 3 separate pages, for Help, Transactions, and Settings. * Included configuration settings page URL in test emails. * Included site URL in test and notification emails. * Added admin UI warning notification for when server-side cURL support is unavailable. * Displaying the transaction creation and charging times in the timezone local to the client. * Added plugin icon. * No longer explicitly requesting to communicate with Stripe via any specific Stripe API version, as Stripe servers are expected to automatically communicate via the most appropriate version for the client library bindings version. = 2.1.0 = * Indicating to the user when Stripe Checkout dialog may be blocked by an ad or a popup blocker, by a JavaScript security policy, or by a broken network connection. * To bypass browser popup blockers, loading Stripe checkout when the user opens the payment UI rather than when the user clicks to open the Stripe Checkout dialog, as that will keep the popup-loading logic in the same user-initiated UI callback. = 2.0.0 = * Having stripe-php 3.4.0 explicitly request the Stripe servers to communicate via Stripe API version 2016-03-07. * For better privacy, loading Stripe checkout.js only when the user clicks to open the Stripe Checkout dialog. * Indicating to the user when the Stripe Checkout dialog is initializing and opening. * Renamed MySQL database table 'plugin_stripe_payment_press_transactions' to 'plugin_rainbow_pay_press_transactions'. Users of version 1.0.0 upgrading to 2.0.0 who already have data in the old table will have to manually export it from the old table and import it into the new table using Adminer or a similar plugin that can export / import database tables. = 1.0.0 = * Initial public release.