WooCommerce Steem Payment Gateway - Teaming up with @graylan and @techcoderx
A few months back I announced the revival of an open source WooCommerce plugin that allows anyone the ability to take STEEM/SBD as payment in their WooCommerce web store.
Wordpress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-steem-payment-method/
Github: https://github.com/sagescrub/woocommerce-steem-payment-method
This same plugin is what is allowing our vendors to take STEEM/SBD payments directly from their customers in Homesteaders Co-op
Today I am glad to announce that I am teaming up with @graylan and @techcoderx to take this plugin to the next level.
They are working on an IPFS hosting for DTube videos in order to provide decentralized video hosting for the DTube platform. @onelovedtube's recent accomplishment has been creating a new video uploader for DTube:
OneLoveDTube IPFS video uploader is an alternative uploader that uploads videos onto DTube. The main aim of this project is to create a product that anyone can setup themselves easily, something that is easy to use and most importantly, to create a solution so that content creators have choices of which uploader they want to use to upload their videos, instead of relying on a single upload server.
OneLoveDTube's website will be utilizing our plugin, WooCommerce Steem Payment Gateway, in order to take payments for distributed video hosting services.
As such @graylan and @techcoderx will be making improvements to the plugin to allow the new feature of supporting subscription plans within WooCommerce subscription features.
I am excited about this, not only because OneLoveDTube has found a use and benefit from this plugin, but also because the plugin will have more people supporting it. I am glad to share the development of this plugin with @graylan and @techcoderx because it will yield a better, more useful tool in the long run.
To use our plugin in your own WooCommerce store: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-steem-payment-method/
To learn more about OneLoveDTube consider joining their discord group: https://discord.gg/Sc4utKr
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Hello, @sagescrub!
Thank you for your contribution. The amount of effort you have put into this project so far is astounding. You also managed to put together a wonderful team; the future looks bright. Your post is informative and well-illustrated with relevant images. Keep up the good work.
On the content side, even though I like all the information provided, I certainly wanted to read a bit more. I wanted to read a bit more about your experience of working on this project, as well as your own views and goals for the future. Regardless, this is a nice post and it's great to see all the development being made. I just think this would have been a stellar post if you had included a bit more editorial content.
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Thanks for this feedback! I will definitely keep in mind to share more of the views and goals in the future. I apologize to leave you hanging! I also appreciate you including the questions you are using to evaluate the post :)
Thank you for your review, @lordneroo! Keep up the good work!
good job guys :)
that's how we take Steem to the moon , it's a good thing to use Steem as payment method :)
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It is good to use steem as payment indeed! It is empowering to the individuals with no transaction fees, and it is a transparent currency.
Agree :)
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Hello, I am really excited about this project and in the last few days have been setting up a new website. @graylan has been very helpful with that. I have woocommerce activated on my WP website and started adding handmade products last night. Still some work ahead to get things organized but the plugin itself is all set up to accept steem :) Just wanted to share and say Thanks so much guys! I know you all work hard for the community. Your efforts are greatly appreciated :)
You are very welcome :) I am glad you are finding it useful! I look forward to seeing your website when it is ready! BTW what kind of products are you selling? I see from your profile you are homesteading... perhaps you would be interested to join https://homesteaderscoop.com
Thank-you! I’ll be sharing my website very soon. I make handmade products that are sewn or crocheted. I will also be selling natural items like luffa sponges and possibly gourd crafts in the near future. :) The products on your website are beautiful! I will definitely be interested. I’ll finish up getting this project going and be back to participate. I appreciate the invite so much! #SnapPlusComment
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Sounds great! Here's more info on being a vendor with us. https://homesteaderscoop.com/sell/
I'm looking forward to seeing your website soon!
Just read this from @pennsif's post on the State of Steem and my eyes lit up as I was just talking with an @adsactly member about a woocommerce/crypto payment gateway for my music on my website.
Oh wow! I am going to have to look at the plugin and see how it works, I LOVE the developments going on to integrate steem to WordPress! Eeeeee! 😀
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In a word, it works perfectly. (From a buyer's perspective, and that's an important one)
I was the first person to order with it on Homesteaders Co-op and was blown away by the simplicity. Input your (or someone else's) name and address (or neither if ordering digital goods), and then your steem key in SteemConnect, and it's done. Easier than Amazon, can't beat it ;)
Awesome! Thanks for the input there @nateonsteemit, yes simplicity is key really. Sounds really simple if that's all you need too!
I only have digital goods at the moment so that makes things even easier! Magic! Need this next 30 mins at the day job to hurry up so I can give this a whirl!
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Thanks for this positive message and encouragement! I am glad you see the value. If you do end up using it in your website, please do let me know how it works out for you!!
Thank you for taking the time to develop it! I installed it last night and had a play around.
I selected the setting where it shows the adapting steem price next to fiat steem price and kept coming back with 0 steem. So not sure if there is a bug there that needs looking at or I need to do something.
I then put a few items in my cart and went to checkout, the option for steem was there but there seem to be default mandatory fields from woocommerce to fill out (like billing address, name etc) that stop you from going straight through to steem connect. I did some research and seems you need to be a coder to be able to go into the website/woocommerce back end to remove those checkout fields (which I can't get my head round) or pay woocommerce more money to have that option!
Once I filled out the mandatory fields though, the steem connect screen came up and worked fine so great job, just wonder about the 0 steem appearing and it doesn't look like the fiat price converted to steem price in check out, just matched it (price of one track was £0.89 and 0.89 steem)
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Thank you for letting me know! I haven't been using the international rates (outside of USD) so I wasn't aware it was not working. I've made an update to the plugin and I believe it should solve the problem for you!
Regarding the billing fields... actually I remove them from https://homesteaderscoop.com like you want to do but I use custom code outside of this plugin. I can upload it as a separate open source plugin if it would help you. True, the code is very simple, but if you are not a coder it would be daunting!
Hey @sagescrub, thanks for looking into that, I will update the plugin later today when I get home from work, looking forward to it!
Yes I have seen a few sites without those mandatory fields and think it would be good to either be able to turn them off being mandatory or remove altogether. I think if will be good to give non crypto folks the option to pay either by PayPal or card still.
If you're able to create a plugin that can disable the mandatory fields if "Pay by steem" is clicked, that would be great. This would mean that non steem users can still pay in the traditional way if needed, but all steem users need to do is click the option for steem and away they go to steem connect.
Let me know if something like that is possible!
How do people who aren't on steem pay via homesteaderscoop?
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Thanks for your feedback @nickyhavey :) I will look into putting this as an option into the steem payment plugin. Initially it may just be an on and off switch regardless of payment method, for simplicity. But yes I like your suggestion of turning those fields off if steem is chosen. I will look into making it happen!
It is not possible yet but I am looking into allowing vendors to accept USD in the near future.
Thanks for considering it man, happy to be a guinea pig for these new tryouts - know what it's like to create something and then need the testing to be done by someone.
Let me know and look forward to it!
Hey @sagescrub, just applied the update now but still getting the 0 Steem next to prices:
We'll get there and crack the code... sorry, couldn't resist the pun work :P
Try deleting the plugin and reinstalling. Or try waiting at least on hour and see if the rates refresh. If neither of those work get back to me and we'll troubleshoot further. Feel free to DM me on discord if you are on there.
OK will delete and reinstall then wait an hour and let you know.
I am indeed on discord (probably far too much these days but that's the way it goes lol)! I will look for you on there! Same username?
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Sounds good! Yes same username :)
Yippeeeeee!! You've done a great job man! Have a look - reinstalled plug in and left it settle over night, now it's good to go :)))
I am so glad! Good luck with your new business! If you end up enjoying the plugin please consider leaving a review in wordpress :)
Here's a screen shot for reference.
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Very nice, thank you @pennsif!! Its good to let others know about this tool that is available to them :)
This is so excellent! Way to go and combine efforts to bless even more steemians!
Thank you :) That is what its about... sharing and you are a great example of this with the gifts you have blessed stemians with. Thanks for setting a good example for others :)
That's awesome man. I'll probably need to use the onelovedtube ipfs uploader in the future if I want to keep my videos here.
I just want to let you know that I already made my post using the WooCommerce Steem Payment plugin. You told me to let you know when it has been posted and here I am doing that lol. You can find the post here:
https://steemit.com/dtube/@kenanqhd/jggincyk
Unfortunately, my VPN isn't working so I can't tell you on Discord (as it is blocked in China) but I think here is also relevant!
If anyone else wants to see this plugin in action, you can also check out that post and see how it works.
Thank you so much @sagescrub for making this. This is only the beginning.
Thank you for sharing your experience @kenanqhd! I am going to go read your post now. I am glad that you found OneLoveDTube relevant as well!
Great. Hope you like it.
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It's an honor to work with you. Thank you for all the hard work and time spent thinking about how to solve these complex problems. Together we can find solutions that can help many people operate businesses in the Steem ecosystem. We really appreciate your promoting our uploader!
Likewise @graylan! Thank you for agreeing to team up with this plugin :) Looking forward to it!