Braintree for WooCommerce Payment Gateway

by WooCommerce

Description

Accept all major cards, Apple Pay, and PayPal directly with PayPal Braintree for WooCommerce. Customers can save their card details or link a PayPal account for an even faster checkout experience.

Features

No redirects — keep customers on your site for payment, reducing the risk of abandoned carts.
Security first; PCI compliant, with 3D Secure verification and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).
Express checkout options, including Buy Now and PayPal Checkout buttons. Customers can save their card details, link a PayPal account, or pay with Apple Pay.
Optimized order management; process refunds, void transactions, and capture charges from your WooCommerce dashboard.
Route payments in certain currencies to different Braintree accounts (requires currency switcher).
Compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Pre-Orders.

Safe and secure — every time

Braintree’s secure Hosted Fields provide a seamless way for customers to enter payment info on your site without redirecting them to PayPal.

It’s PCI compliant and supports SCA and 3D Secure verification, so you always meet security requirements — without sacrificing flexibility. Plus, Braintree’s fraud tools protect your business by helping detect and prevent fraud.

Even faster checkouts

Customers can save their credit and debit card details or link a PayPal account to fast-forward checkout the next time they shop with you. Adding PayPal Checkout and Buy Now buttons to your product, cart, and checkout pages makes purchasing simpler and quicker, too.

Get paid upfront and earn recurring revenue

Take charge of how you sell online. PayPal Braintree supports WooCommerce Subscriptions — the perfect solution for earning recurring revenue. It’s also compatible with WooCommerce Pre-Orders, enabling you to accept payment upfront or as products ship.

Screenshots

Enter Braintree credentials
Credit card gateway settings
Advanced credit card gateway settings
PayPal gateway settings
Checkout with PayPal directly from the cart
Checkout with PayPal directly from the product page

Faq

Where can I find documentation?

You’ve come to the right place. Our documentation for PayPal Braintree for WooCommerce includes detailed setup instructions, troubleshooting tips, and more.

Does this extension work with credit cards, or just PayPal?

Both! PayPal Braintree for WooCommerce supports payments with credit cards and PayPal. (You can also enable Apple Pay.)

Does it support subscriptions?

Yes! PayPal Braintree supports tokenization (required for recurring payments) and is compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions.

Which currencies are supported?

Support is available for 25 currencies, wherever Braintree is available. You can use your store’s native currency or add multiple merchant IDs to process other currencies via different Braintree accounts. To manage multiple currencies, you’ll need a free or paid currency switcher, such as Aelia Currency Switcher (requires purchase).

Can non-US merchants use this extension?

Yes! It’s supported in all countries where Braintree is available.

Does it support testing and production modes?

Yes; sandbox mode is available so you can test the payment process without activating live transactions. Woo-hoo!

Credit card payments are working, but PayPal is not — why?

You may need to enable PayPal in your Braintree account.

Can I use this extension for PayPal only?

Sure thing! See our instructions on using PayPal Braintree without credit cards.

Will it work with my site’s theme?

This extension should work with any WooCommerce-compatible theme, but you might need to customize your theme for a perfect fit.

Where can I get support, report bugs, or request new features?

First, review our documentation for troubleshooting tips and answers to common questions. If you need further assistance, please get in touch via the official support forum.

Reviews

Perfect Plugin & Responsive Support

By elkrat on February 18, 2026

I've never even really thought about this plugin, which is exactly what you want. And when I had a question about carding attacks, their support team was very responsive and had good ideas that helped me out.

Beware of velocity attacks (failed orders) with this plugin

By Zade (nothin7) on December 6, 2024

Three years ago, @patrickhs reported that this plugin has "non-existent fraud protection", and apparently this hasn't changed.

I manage over 100 WordPress sites, and only three of them get hit with velocity attacks, where scammers will use your site to test stolen credit cards, generating hundreds of failed orders (last attack was over 5,000 attempts). I spent countless hours trying various anti-spam plugins and writing various scripts, until I finally discovered a pattern: These are the only sites using Braintree for WooCommerce Payment Gateway. Clearly this plugin suffers from an unpatched vulnerability because somehow a Guest user had five charges approved for the same order, all different card numbers, preceded by hundreds of failed attempts (each attempt generating an order note, about one second apart). Another order showed a failed attempt after the successful payment. That's not how WooCommerce works, especially when your Checkout page has a reCAPTCHA. You can't pass reCAPTCHAs that quickly, and you can't (successfully) pay for the same order twice; that'd be a new order. So essentially this plugin is an invitation for hackers to bypass the Checkout interface and make order attempts programmatically.

Also, the latest update (3.1.7) destroys the credit card field styling (and, in turn, customers' trust). I'm glad I noticed that right away.

Combining that with the fact that I reported a bug ("sv-wc-payment-gateway-payment-form.min.css.map error") over a year ago that could be resolved by adding a single space to a file—and they still haven't fixed it—I no longer trust Braintree and have begun switching everyone to WooPayments. First impressions of WooPayments are great, setup is a breeze, and my Checkout pages are now more user-friendly in multiple ways.

Subpar Support

By Josh (jmccallweb) on February 9, 2024

The plugin seems fine. Support--especially here on wordpress.org--can be pretty terrible. This rating is for plugin support.

Easy to use. Great Support!!

By yfirvida on February 14, 2023

The plugin is very easy to use, and they have a great support team.

Not available in australia

By thetonto on June 19, 2022

Braintree claims to be available in Australia but there is no way to setup an account nor does the sales team respond. Just not interested in getting new customers.

Issues after 2.6.3 upgrade

By Marvin (marvinsolano) on June 14, 2022

After new update it stops working on the front end. The issue was related to the compatibility with server and the new update. I'm giving only 4 stars as the customer service just left me to resolve it on my own.

Worst Customer Service Ever

By nitsa100 on March 21, 2022

Put $100k plus through their parent company, PayPal, but can I get a simple response to a tech request, as if. It's been a whole day of support going "hit email response 79, 48, 86" whatever, just don't answer the question. Steer clear.

Has been working fine for five years

By Wudman on September 24, 2021

Finally a bump, but it may be something WooCommerce.

Non-existent fraud protection

By patrickhs on July 12, 2021

Never seen a site get hit as hard with credit card scams ever and whats worse is how easy this gateway seems to make it. The fraud protection is a joke and support is an even bigger joke. 3 open support tickets trying to get some help with fraud protection and willing to pay for the highest tier and nothing for a response - not even go away we don't want your business. Just tons of scam visa orders that braintree authorizes only to chargeback later. The chargeback process literally just leaves you hanging with no information at all to go back to. If you want to know the outcome of a dispute you have to make a special request and hope support even responds. Like I said - 3 open tickets now and zero response. Not exactly a service you want to hang your financial well being on. I believe they only care about big name partners since the experience I had on an enterprise Bigcommerce account with them vs what we have on WooCommerce is night and day. I switched to Stripe and instantly the scam orders stopped. Seems like it's a good revenue stream for braintree when they can allow fraud because they're taking the money from your account anyway so no loss on their end. Horrible experience with this gateway. As good as it was on BigCommerce it is the epitome of horrible with WooCommerce. The Paypal checkout process is decent but not enough to make up for this completely horrible service.

Support is really awsome!!!

By NinnaDesign on June 29, 2020

I had issues with translation files not being picked up by the plugin and support really did they best to help.

Changelog

3.9.0 – 2026-03-30

Add – EPS local payment gateway
Add – iDEAL local payment gateway.
Add – P24 local payment method gateway.
Add – Bancontact local payment gateway.
Add – BLIK local payment method gateway.
Add – MyBank local payment gateway.
Add – Make LPM gateways generally accessible.
Add – WooCommerce Blocks checkout support for Local Payment Methods.
Add – Show admin notice when a local payment method gateway is missing a Merchant Account ID for its supported currencies.
Fix – Deprecation messages caused by dynamic properties in PHP 8.2.
Dev – Upgrade SkyVerge Framework from 5.15.10 to 6.0.1.
Dev – Add compatibility for PHP 8.4.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.6.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.4.
Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.8.
Dev – Centralize braintree-js-data-collector script registration.
Dev – Add per-method Local Payment Method gateway infrastructure.
Dev – Github workflow to run JS unit tests on each PR.
Dev – Add additional E2E tests for better coverage.

3.8.0 – 2026-03-03

Add – Make ACH gateway generally accessible.
Add – Make Fastlane generally available without requiring the early access toggle.
Add – Support for ACH in blocks checkout.
Add – Fastlane support to blocks checkout.
Add – Style extraction for Fastlane card component to match the active theme’s checkout styling.
Fix – “View Transaction Details” button functionality when using legacy order screen.
Fix – Reduce L3 cooldown period from 3 months to 1 day and add wc_braintree_level3_bank_declined_cooldown_window filter.
Fix – Add a guard to prevent assert() failures when rendering checkout.
Fix – Resolve “_doing_it_wrong” notice caused by direct order property access during credit card transactions.
Fix – Show standard shipping fields when a Fastlane member has no saved shipping address.
Fix – Show card input fields when a Fastlane member has no saved cards in their profile.
Fix – Update build code to ensure all translatable strings are included.
Update – Remove email confirmation modal for autofilled emails in Fastlane checkout.
Tweak – keep billing fields visible when Fastlane returns incomplete address data.
Dev – Extract shared Fastlane utility functions into a shared module for reuse across classic and blocks checkout.

3.7.0 – 2026-02-02

Add – Make Venmo gateway generally available.
Add – PayPal Fastlane integration for accelerated checkout on shortcode checkout pages.
Add – Introduce a checkbox to enable Fastlane Early Access Payment method.
Add – Email confirmation modal for Fastlane checkout when email is pre-filled.
Add – Remove Fastlane feature flag.
Add – ACH Direct Debit support for subscriptions.
Add – Support for fetching account configuration data from Braintree.
Add – Show a notice on the gateway settings page if gateway is not enabled in any available merchant account.
Add – Merchant account ID dropdown to select a merchant account ID for the gateway based on the selected account configuration and currency.
Add – Full mandate details for ACH.
Add – ACH/SEPA webhook events handler for payment status updates.
Update – Restrict manual connection settings to Credit Card and PayPal.
Fix – Subscription renewals when using Fastlane.
Fix – Improve compatibility with the Avatax plugin when using express checkouts.
Fix – Prevent manual credential input on child gateways when no parent gateway credentials are configured.
Fix – Shipping fields when using Fastlane with a product that doesn’t require shipping.
Fix – Limit Fastlane availability to only the guest shoppers.
Fix – Billing name not being prefilled when authenticating as a Fastlane member.
Fix – Preserve Fastlane address field edit mode across WooCommerce checkout updates.
Fix – Show a better description for subscriptions being paid using ACH.
Fix – Add some missing PHP direct access checks.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.5.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.3.
Dev – Upgrade woocommerce/plugin-check-action to v1.1.5.
Dev – Automatic formatting on pre-commit.
Dev – Format codebase with wp-scipts.

3.6.0 – 2025-12-10

Add – Venmo payment method support to the block checkout page.
Add – Venmo payment method support to the block cart page
Add – Subscription support for Venmo.
Add – Admin notices for enabled gateways that don’t support the current store currency.
Add – Dynamic descriptor name support for Venmo gateway.
Add – Adds filter wc_braintree_is_level3_data_allowed to disable adding Level3 in transaction the request.
Update – Make Google Pay generally available.
Fix – Venmo payment method label in the My Account subscriptions list.
Fix – Apple Pay vaulting consent checkbox is shown when Apple Pay is unavailable.
Fix – Prevent selecting unsupported shipping addresses in Apple Pay on shortcode checkout.
Fix – Resolve Level 2/3 line item validation error for PayPal transactions with discounts in EUR stores.
Fix – Hide Apple Pay and Google Pay tabs on non-Credit Card gateway settings.
Fix – Editing saved non-credit-card payment methods.
Fix – Early access gateway names in the Plugins page.
Tweak – Don’t show an error when the shopper closes the Venmo QR modal.
Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.9.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.4.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.2.
Dev – Extract common/shared classic checkout form handling code to a common base class.
Dev – Fix ESLint configuration for plugin text domain and Braintree global.
Dev – Add JavaScript unit testing runner pipeline.
Dev – Enforce ESLint on new JS changes.

See changelog for all versions.