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Topics: Payments & money

Payment Gateways

2 min readApplies to every PremiumPress theme · 12.x
Walkthrough comingA short screen recording of this guide is planned. The written steps below are complete.

Payment Gateways

Taking money on your site.

How gateways work​

Gateways are separate plugins, not part of the theme. The theme provides checkout, orders and the settings screen; a gateway plugin provides the connection to PayPal, Stripe or whoever processes the payment.

That split is deliberate — you install only the gateway you actually use, and a gateway can be updated without touching the theme.

Download the gateway plugins from premiumpress.com/plugins.

Setting one up​

  1. Download the gateway plugin for your processor.
  2. Install and activate it under Plugins ▸ Add New ▸ Upload Plugin.
  3. Go to PremiumPress ▸ Checkout (ppt_checkout).
  4. The gateway now appears in the list. Enter its credentials and enable it.

Each gateway supplies its own fields — most want an API key or client ID and secret, and a sandbox/live switch.

Test before going live​

Most gateways offer a sandbox or test mode. Use it, and place a real end-to-end order before you take live payments: check the order appears under PremiumPress ▸ Orders, and that the customer receives the confirmation email.

The theme also includes a test gateway for checking the checkout flow without a processor at all. Never leave it enabled on a live site — it marks orders as paid without taking any money.

Which gateway do I need?​

Any processor with a plugin on the plugins page. If yours is not listed, contact us — we will build the plugin free of charge, and these typically take 7–10 working days.

What people are paying for​

Gateways are only the payment step. What is actually for sale — listing packages, upgrades, memberships or credits — is configured separately, in Monetize.

For developers​

A plugin registers a gateway through the ppt_payment_gateways filter, which declares its id, name and settings fields. Payment itself runs through the ppt_gateway_start and ppt_gateway_verify contracts, shared by every checkout in the theme — listings, memberships, credits and bookings all use the same pair. See Checkout.