What it does
Add a Pay by Invoice payment gateway to WooCommerce for approved B2B and wholesale customers only. GoUp Approved Customer Invoice Gateway adds a WooCommerce Pay by Invoice option for trusted account customers. Approval is tied to an individual logged-in WordPress user—not a role, company name, email domain, or browser value—and eligibility is rechecked on the server before an invoice order is accepted.
Step-by-step guide: How to Add a Pay by Invoice Payment Method to WooCommerce for Approved B2B Customers Only
Screenshots
Common use cases
- Offer Net 30 invoice terms to a manually approved business customer
- Give one trusted account Net 14 terms without granting invoice access by customer role
- Revoke future invoice eligibility while preserving historical order snapshots
- Run a B2B store where guests and unapproved accounts must use standard payment methods
Features
- Approve or revoke individual customer accounts through restricted WooCommerce management screens
- Add an offline Pay by Invoice gateway for authenticated, approved customers only
- Set global invoice terms with optional customer-specific text overrides
- Snapshot approval state and effective terms on invoice orders without collecting an online payment
- Support classic checkout, Checkout Blocks, Store API, secure Order Pay, and HPOS
- Manage customers with search and bulk actions, plus diagnostics, an eligibility tester, privacy tools, and sanitized logging
How it works
- Download the plugin ZIP from your GoUpWP account.
- Upload, install, and activate it through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin with WooCommerce active.
- Open WooCommerce → Settings → Payments → Pay by Invoice and enable and configure the gateway.
- Open WooCommerce → Invoice Customers, approve an individual account, and test checkout as both an approved and unapproved customer.
Compatibility and requirements
Frequently asked questions
How do I offer pay by invoice (net 30) to selected B2B customers in WooCommerce?
Approve the customer’s account from the WooCommerce management screen and set your invoice terms. Only logged-in, individually approved customers see the Pay by Invoice option at checkout; everyone else continues to pay with your normal gateways.
Does a wholesale customer role automatically grant invoice access?
No. Approval is stored for an individual WordPress user and must be granted explicitly by an authorized administrator.
Can guests use Pay by Invoice?
No. Version 1.0 requires a logged-in and individually approved customer account.
Does this plugin create PDF invoices or collect payment?
No. It provides an offline payment method and records the invoice terms. It does not create PDFs, invoice numbers, accounting entries, credit checks, or online transactions.
What happens when an approved customer is revoked?
Future invoice eligibility is removed. Existing orders keep their historical approval and terms snapshots unchanged.
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Updates, support, and cancellation
Every license covers one production website plus one staging or local development site, and includes maintained releases, automatic updates, fresh downloads, and product support during its term. Annual licenses renew automatically until cancelled. Two-year licenses are prepaid and renewed manually; lifetime licenses never expire. If a fixed-term license ends, your installed plugin continues working at its current version.
Changelog
1.0.5 26 September 2026 · tested with WordPress 7.1
- Tightened Order Pay and Store API ownership checks so approved accounts cannot authorize guest or third-party orders.
- Added target-user permission checks to every approval mutation path.
- Made approval transitions idempotent, repaired approval counts on upgrade, and kept them synchronized during erasure and user deletion.
- Expanded privacy exports and removed empty customer metadata.
- Improved customer-search and quick-action failure feedback.
1.0.4 26 September 2026 · tested with WordPress 7.1
- GoUpWP admin identity: every plugin screen now opens with a GoUpWP header showing the plugin name, version, documentation, support and licence status.
- GoUpWP styling for settings, rule tables, tabs, cards and buttons, scoped to this plugin's screens so WordPress and other plugins are untouched.
- GoUpWP mark on the Plugins screen, Documentation and Support links in the plugin row, and GoUpWP icons on the Dashboard → Updates screen.
1.0.3 20 September 2026 · tested with WordPress 7.1
- Updates: the installer now fetches a freshly signed download link at install time and verifies the SHA-256 checksum, so "Update now" works hours after WordPress last checked for updates.
- Updates: update checks are cached for six hours and the Plugins screen shows a clear message (with a link to the license page) when an update exists but the license is not active.
- License screen: named per plugin in the WooCommerce menu, shows the installed version and a "Check for updates" button, and every string is translatable.
- Plugins screen: Settings and License links on the plugin row.
- Uninstall: releases the license seat on goupwp.com and removes all license data, regardless of the data-retention setting.
- Code style: all source files expanded to readable, documented PHP.
- Fixed the "View orders" link on the Invoice Customers screen, which did not filter the orders list by customer.
1.0.2 20 September 2026 · tested with WordPress 7.1
- License screen now explains activation failures (unrecognised key, wrong plugin, site limit reached, expired) and shows the environment, activation counts and end date.
- Activate and Deactivate always contact goupwp.com immediately instead of waiting out a network backoff.
1.0.1 20 September 2026 · tested with WordPress 7.1
- Added the GoUpWP licensing and update client.
- Normalized plugin headers and code style.