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POLi Payments for WooCommerce

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Description

Accept Open Banking Payments on WooCommerce with POLi

Add New Zealand’s leading pay-by-bank payment method to your WooCommerce checkout.

POLi enables customers to pay directly from their bank account by securely authorising the payment within their bank’s online banking or mobile banking app, providing merchants with a fast, secure, and cost-effective alternative to traditional card payments.

Trusted by many of New Zealand’s leading brands, POLi helps businesses increase payment choice, reduce payment acceptance costs, and receive immediate confirmation when a payment has been successfully completed.

The POLi WooCommerce plugin makes it simple to add Open Banking-powered account-to-account payments to your online store with minimal setup.

Why Add POLi to Your Checkout?

Today’s customers expect payment choice.

By offering POLi alongside your existing payment methods, you can give customers the option to pay directly from their bank account without needing a credit card, debit card, or digital wallet.

Bank-Authorised Payments

Customers authorise every payment directly through their bank’s digital banking channels, using the same online banking or mobile banking experience they use every day.

POLi provides a familiar pay-by-bank experience that allows customers to review and authorise payments directly with their bank.

Benefits for Merchants

  • Lower payment acceptance costs
  • Immediate payment confirmation
  • Improved payment reconciliation
  • Simple WooCommerce integration
  • Trusted by millions of New Zealand consumers
  • Secure bank-authorised payment experience
  • Local support from a New Zealand-based team

Benefits for Customers

  • Pay directly from their bank account
  • Authorise payments within their bank’s online banking or mobile app
  • No need to enter card details
  • No additional apps required
  • Familiar banking experience customers already know and trust
  • Fast and convenient checkout process

How POLi Works

  1. Customer selects POLi at checkout.
  2. Customer chooses their bank.
  3. Customer is directed to their bank’s online banking or mobile banking app.
  4. Customer reviews and authorises the payment directly with their bank.
  5. Payment confirmation is returned instantly.
  6. The WooCommerce order is completed automatically.

Built for New Zealand Ecommerce

POLi supports customers from New Zealand’s major banks and is designed specifically for businesses that want a reliable account-to-account payment option.

Whether you’re a small online retailer or a high-volume ecommerce merchant, POLi helps you provide greater payment choice while simplifying payment collection.

Features

  • WooCommerce native integration
  • Real-time payment confirmation
  • Flexible reconciliation options
  • NZD support
  • Secure hosted payment flow
  • Merchant reporting and transaction visibility
  • Ongoing plugin updates and support

Looking Beyond Checkout?

POLi has evolved beyond ecommerce payments.

In addition to online checkout payments, POLi is helping businesses leverage Open Banking for payment collection, payment links, QR code payments and recurring payment solutions.

By installing POLi today, you’re connecting to a platform that continues to evolve alongside New Zealand’s Open Banking ecosystem.

Support

For more information or questions please email support@polipay.co.nz or submit a ticket

Automatic Installation from the WordPress Dashboard

  1. From your dashboard navigate to “Plugins -> Add New”
  2. Search for ‘POLi Payments for WooCommerce’;
  3. Click ‘Install Now’;
  4. Activate the plugin;
  5. Configure your POLi account details into the plugin

Manual Installation

The manual installation method involves downloading our plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress documentation contains instructions on how to do this here.

You can request a plugin for older versions of WooCommerce from our support team.

What is POLi?

POLi is New Zealand’s leading pay-by-bank payment solution, enabling customers to pay directly from their bank account using secure online banking authorisation.

Is POLi an Open Banking payment solution?

Yes. POLi enables account-to-account payments that connect customers directly with their bank, providing a simple and secure pay-by-bank experience.

How does the customer authorise a payment?

After selecting POLi, customers are connected to their bank’s online banking or mobile banking experience where they review and authorise the payment. This allows customers to use a banking experience they already know and trust while paying directly from their bank account.

Why do merchants choose POLi?

Merchants choose POLi to increase payment choice, reduce payment acceptance costs, improve reconciliation and provide customers with a trusted way to pay directly from their bank account.

Do customers need a credit card?

No. Customers only need access to a supported New Zealand bank account.

How quickly can I get started?

Most merchants can install the plugin and begin accepting payments within minutes once their POLi merchant account has been approved.

Why should I offer pay-by-bank alongside cards?

Offering both card payments and pay-by-bank gives customers greater payment choice while helping merchants reduce payment acceptance costs and improve payment certainty.

Does POLi support recurring payments?

POLi is continuing to evolve its Open Banking capabilities, including recurring payment solutions that can support a broader range of payment collection use cases beyond traditional ecommerce checkouts.

6.3

Release Date – 14 September 2026

  • Performance and reliablity upgrades.

6.2.2

Release Date – 22 August 2024

  • Fix upgrade issues from 6.2.1

6.2.1

Release Date – 12 April 2024

  • Fix upgrade issues from 6.2.0

6.2.0

Release Date – 23 November 2023

  • Fix upgrade issues from 6.1.0
  • Fix error with detection of hpos

6.1.0

Release Date – 16 November 2023

  • Removal of AUD configuration

6.0.0

Release Date – 16 August 2023

  • Support WooCommerce HPOS
  • Support WooCommerce block checkouts

5.2.6

Release Date – 5 May 2023

  • Fix excess logging issues

5.2.5

Release Date – 2 November 2022

  • Correct passing transaction reference on to order

5.2.4

Release Date – 6 September 2022

  • Correct processing of transactions that timeout

5.2.3

Release Date – 21 July 2022

  • Correct error on showing POli as a method of payment

5.2.2

Release Date – 8 July 2022

  • Correction to error reporting with wrong details entered
  • Removal of PHP notices

5.2

Release Date – 29 June 2022

  • Added multi-currency support (AUD and NZD)
  • Added functionality of hiding POLi on checkout for unsupported currencies
  • Added the ability to configure a test account and switch to test mode
  • Added the ability to control reconciliation data for NZ POLi accounts

4.3

Release Date – 20 January 2021

  • Support for sequential numbering from the plugin “WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers”

4.2

Release Date – 24 September 2020

  • Updated links and formatting

4.1

Release Date – 09 September 2020

  • Initial Plugin release
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