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

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.

Helpful support. Simply works.

By Isaac Lubow (isaaclubow) on May 21, 2020

It's a good integration.

Changelog

3.5.1 – 2025-11-18

Fix – Fix missing assets in the 3.5.0 release package

3.5.0 – 2025-11-17

Important Fixes and Updates

Add – Apple Pay express payment support for WooCommerce Blocks Cart and Checkout pages.
Add – Show Webhook URL configuration information.
Fix – Allow changing shipping method in the Apple Pay modal.
Fix – Issue with empty _billing_address_index in wp_postmeta table when using Apple Pay.
Fix – Fatal error when trying to register Blocks before the class is available.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.3.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.1.
Dev – Update Braintree PHP SDK from 6.21.0 to 6.28.0.
Dev – Update Braintree JS SDK from 3.94.0 to 3.129.1.

Internal Changes and Early Access Features

Add – Add Early Access support for new payment methods (can be enabled on the WooCommerce Features page).
Add – Early access support for Google Pay.
Add – Early access support for Venmo.
Add – Google Pay express payment support on product pages.
Add – Google Pay express payment support for WooCommerce Cart and Checkout block pages.
Add – Allow Google Pay to be used for Subscriptions.
Add – Automatic customer account creation for subscription purchases through Google Pay when the user is not logged in.
Tweak – Update Google Pay button height to match Apple Pay button.
Tweak – Add support for using different logging severities and additional structured data.
Dev – Prevent duplicate pages/products when setting up the test environment.
Dev – Updates to our QIT GitHub Action workflow.
Dev – Add new deploy workflow.

3.4.2 – 2025-10-08

Add – Retry Braintree API call without Level3 request data after a processor 2046 error.
Fix – Remove field unitTaxAmount from Level 3 request data.

3.4.1 – 2025-09-24

Fix – Error when placing orders with 3DS disabled on the Braintree account.
Fix – Credit Card payments fail with Zero-Amount line items.

3.4.0 – 2025-09-15

Add – Automatic customer account creation for subscription purchases through Apple Pay when the user is not logged in.
Add – Ability to view transaction data in order page.
Add – Include level 2 and level 3 data when creating transactions.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.2.
Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.0.

See changelog for all versions.