This article suggests that you can install the WooPayments plugin in order to get the address autocomplete functionality and then hide the gateway woocommerce-payments at the checkout with a snippet.
I wouldn’t want to install another plugin to get the address autocomplete but if there’s a clear pathway that this feature won’t be included in the Payment Plugin for Stripe, then I might consider the solution of the article.
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This reply was modified 1 month ago by
barnabas1.
Hi @barnabas1
Thank you for contacting Payment Plugins. Let me have the code for the predictive address search functionality reviewed so I can confirm if it’s possible to build that into the Stripe plugin.
It seems to me that this feature should be available through core rather than a payment solution since a merchant is likely to offer other payment gateways like PayPal, Square, etc.
Kind Regards
Hi @mrclayton,
It’s a bit cheeky that thy added this functionality in woo payments plugin rather than the core.
Thank you for taking the time to review this.
Hi @barnabas1
After reviewing the WooCommerce and WooPayments code, it looks like the address search functionality is being provided by an endpoint that’s controlled by WooCommerce via https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/v2/sites/%s/address-autocomplete-token. That would indicate registration is required or an account at wordpress.com in order to use that address completion functionality.
In order to implement something similar in the Stripe plugin, we would need to choose a provider, like Google, that provides the address completion functionality. However, those solutions already exist and are not payment gateway specific. https://woocommerce.com/products/google-autofill-customer-addresses
Kind Regards
Hi @mrclayton,
Thank you for clearing things up.
Best regards,
Barnabas
Just to complete this thread, I’ve installed woopayments plugin and did the onboarding but when I had to choose between going live or have test payments, I simply chose test payments and finished the onboarding there. The address autocomplete feature under Woo Settings -> General became available and the autocomplete is working at the checkout this way.
I have another multicurrency plugin that allows me to hide payment methods at the checkout so woopayments is set not to show at all.
If we are to use another plugin for address autocomplete, maybe woopayments plugin can be the way to get this feature for free.
Hi @mrclayton
I vibed coded this snippet in the end: https://gist.github.com/Barnabas2/5b15e1540a509a4b6b1c56a4c5d4a13a
It works with your own API key. I’m not a professional developer, if you would like to check. You might want to use it as a basis for creating an interface in the stripe plugin where you just enter your API key. It’s up to you – as you think best.
Kind regards,
Barnabas
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This reply was modified 3 weeks, 6 days ago by barnabas1.
