zipMoney(Zip Co) Payments Plugin for WooCommerce

Zip Co is a billion-dollar company and they can’t be bothered to provide an up-to-date plugin.

PHP 8.2. Getting these errors flooding my debug.log. I don’t want to turn off deprecation warnings as I need them. Is this plugin being worked on? I don’t want to turn Zip Pay off but I am considering it. I’m posting this as a review because it looks like the developer is not responding in the support thread.

[26-Oct-2024 04:15:48 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Optional parameter $amount declared before required parameter $currency is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /home/1061976.cloudwaysapps.com/wvsxervhpq/public_html/wp-content/plugins/zipmoney-payments-woocommerce/includes/api/class-wc-zipmoney-payment-gateway-api-charge.php on line 36

• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by robmaric.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by robmaric.

Non existing support: they never answer requests. I notified several issues and never received an answer.

The plugin does weird things in the WooCommerce database, as changing the post type of the order while it’s being accepted or not.

They say they are compatible with HPOS, but they keep considering that Orders are Posts. If HPOS is enabled and sync with the legacy database schema is disabled, the plugin will cause problems and mess in the database, replacing the type of posts from shop_order_placeholder type to shop_order. This is potentially problematic.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by David Marín Carreño.

What they don’t tell you here is that your Zip Payments application is subject to an approval process.🙄 Here’s the reply I got:

Thanks for your application.    

Hey Zip Partner,

Due to our risk policy Zip has unfortunately declined your merchant application.

Any application for a Merchant Services Facility from a retailer or business is treated on a stand-alone basis, reviewed against our commercial risk policies, and is at Zip’s discretion after this review.

Some of the criteria that were considered as part of your application process include:     Length of time you have been in business (min. 6 months)     Annual business turnover     Your credit history     Operational website and website traffic     The types of products and services you provide to your customers     Shipping and refund policies (products must be delivered within 14 days)   We are unable to support Partners selling pre-paid services or selling to other businesses only. We wish you luck in your future endeavours.

Best regards,

-The Zip Team

How can you get the plugin to work if they reject your merchant application? You can’t, because then they won’t give you the required API key.

More of a problem with the onboarding/vetting process than the plugin.
But still. They don’t make it easy.

Who knows why.
No reason given.

My guess is that zip discriminates against the financially poor.🤷‍♂️
Because it seems that they only want to do B2B with the 1%ers (massive already well-established retailers like JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks & Bunnings). The plugin shouldn’t even be in the wordpress directory in that case. The whole point of wordpress.org is that it is open-source, open to all.

Discriminating against buyers is one thing.
(as some don’t always pay, sure, understandable)
Discriminating against sellers is quite another…

Do you really think I’m going to … not deliver my art to someone who buys it? Really?

Easier to set up Klarna, AfterPay.🤷‍♂️

• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by lesliedeanbrown.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by lesliedeanbrown.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by lesliedeanbrown.

Adds about 10% time to a pages load times, loads on every page even when you aren’t using any of the widgets.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by alkaway.