Five steps: install the plugin, sign in with Clover, answer the setup wizard, link your tax rates if you charge them, and confirm with a real payment. Plan for about twenty minutes.

 

 

Before you start

You will need:

  • A Clover account for the business that will receive the money.
  • WordPress 5.6 or greater, running PHP 7.4 or greater.
  • WooCommerce 3.0.4 or greater, active on the same site.
  • HTTPS on the store. The payment method stays hidden at checkout on a site served over plain HTTP.
  • A WordPress permalink structure set to anything other than Plain. That setting lives in your WordPress admin under Settings → Permalinks.
  • A database table prefix set in your WordPress configuration, which a standard WordPress install already has.

 

 

Step 1. Install and activate the plugin

In your WordPress admin, open the Plugins menu and go to the screen where you add a new plugin. Search for WeeConnectPay and check that WeeConnectPay is the listed author.

 

Click Install Now, wait for WordPress to finish, then click Activate.

 

 

Step 2. Sign in with Clover

Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Payments → WeeConnectPay. Because the store has no connection yet, the plugin shows its sign-in card, headed Connect your Clover account, with the line "Sign in with the Clover account for this store to start taking payments through WooCommerce."

 

Click Sign in with Clover. The card fills in place with a connection code, the address to visit to enter it, and an Open WeeConnectPay button underneath.

 

Click Open WeeConnectPay, sign in with the Clover account that owns the business, enter the code on the Connect an Integration screen, click Verify Code, and approve the request on the Authorize Connection screen. The plugin, still waiting on the other tab, switches to Connected successfully! on its own.

 

Until you approve it, that plugin tab reads Waiting for approval... and shows a live countdown beside Code expires in. The code is good for 15 minutes; if it runs out, click Generate New Code and repeat.

 

Signing in with the Clover account that owns the business is the part worth double checking. A different Clover account produces a connection to the wrong merchant.

 

 

Step 3. Answer the setup wizard

Once connected, the plugin opens WeeConnectPay Setup and walks you through eight steps: Business, Transactions, Stock, Taxes, Printing, Payments, Security, and Review. You move with Back and Next, and finish with Save & Finish.

 

Business. "What type of business are you?" Pick Restaurant / Food Service, Retail Store, Online-Only Store, or Service Business. This step sets the starting defaults for the ones that follow, and every default stays editable.

 

Transactions. The Transaction Mode, and the most consequential answer in the wizard:

Mode What it does Refunds
Charge at checkout The card is charged as soon as the customer checks out. "Full or partial refunds of the amount charged."
Hold and charge later A switch underneath the first mode: "Holds the money without taking it. You charge the card yourself later, from the WooCommerce order page." "Release the hold before you charge. Full or partial refunds once charged."
Order and charge "Clover receives the full order item by item, then the card is charged. Choose this if you need order printing or stock sync." "Refunds cover whole items at their full price. You cannot refund part of an item in this mode."

 

Under the option you have selected, the wizard lists what that mode does for Refunds, Taxes, and Order printing, so you can compare all three before committing. The mode is changeable afterwards and applies to new orders.

 

Stock. "Where do you manage your stock today?" As the step puts it, "This decides which system is allowed to change the other." Pick On my Clover POS, In both places, In WooCommerce, or I don't track stock. Stock sync runs on the Order and charge mode; if you ask for it on another mode, the step says so and offers Switch to Order and charge in one click.

 

Taxes. "How should taxes appear in your Clover reports?" The step's own framing: "WooCommerce always calculates the tax either way. This only changes what Clover records." Pick Off, Total only ("One combined tax figure per sale. No setup needed."), or Each rate by name ("Each rate named in Clover. Needs your WooCommerce rates linked to Clover rates once."), which is step 4 below.

 

Printing. Enable Clover Order Printing sends orders to your Clover devices after a successful payment, and Print Recurring/Subscription Orders extends that to renewals. Both need the Order and charge mode; on the other modes the step says so and asks you to go back and change the mode.

 

Payments. Google Pay, which the wizard describes as "Enable Google Pay for supported browsers and devices. Available for classic checkout only."

 

Security. Three independent layers. Postal Code Verification compares the card's postal code against the billing and shipping addresses after payment and flags mismatches as warning notes on the order. Honeypot Fields adds hidden fields that catch automated bots and stay invisible to real customers. Google reCAPTCHA v3 scores visitors invisibly and writes the human score to the order notes; it asks for a Site Key and a Secret Key from Google, and a Minimum Human Score Threshold. The wizard's own note on that threshold: "A threshold above 0.9 will likely reject legitimate customers. Most sites use 0.5."

 

Charge timing. One extra step appears only when your answers pull in two directions, because a hold placed with Hold and charge later never rides a Clover order and so cannot coexist with order printing or stock sync at sale. Headed Two of your goals need different charge timings, it asks you to choose Charge right away or Keep the hold. Whichever you pick is the one that is saved.

 

Review. Review Your Settings lists every answer back to you, flags any combination worth a second look, and gives you Save & Finish.

 

Saving lands you on Your setup: a plain-language summary of what was written, plus a Before you're done checklist naming anything still outstanding, such as linking your tax rates. Go to Settings takes you the rest of the way.

 

You can leave early with Skip to Settings, and you can run the whole thing again later from the Run setup wizard button on the settings page.

 

 

This step applies to stores that charge taxes and picked Each rate by name. Open the Taxes tab of the settings page and use Rate linking to link each WooCommerce tax rate to the Clover rate with the same percentage, so that Clover reporting names the rate instead of recording an anonymous amount.

 

Linking your tax rates to Clover covers the linking itself, and How tax reporting to Clover works explains what each forwarding mode sends.

 

If you picked Off or Total only, there is nothing to link here. WooCommerce still calculates and charges tax exactly as it always has.

 

 

Step 5. Confirm with a real payment

Place a small order on your own store with a real card. Confirm that it completes, that it appears in your Clover account, and that the order edit page in WooCommerce now shows the WeeConnectPay Charges panel with the transaction in it. Refund it from that same panel.

 

That single order exercises the whole loop: checkout, payment, Clover recording, and refunds.

 

 

Where everything lives afterwards

The settings page is always WooCommerce → Settings → Payments → WeeConnectPay, and your WordPress admin also carries a WeeConnectPay menu whose Settings entry lands on that same screen. It opens on WeeConnectPay Settings, shows Connected as your merchant name, and carries four tabs: Payments, Taxes, Inventory, and Advanced. Changes save as you make them.

 

Payments holds the transaction mode, order printing, Google Pay, and fraud protection. Taxes holds the tax forwarding mode and rate linking. Inventory holds your stock sync mode and your product links. Advanced holds debug mode and, under Connection, Disconnect this store. Each tab label carries a small live badge, so a tab with rates still to link says so before you open it.

 

If a payment does not behave, Payments failing at checkout: what to check first is the triage guide, and support@weeconnectpay.com is always available.