Bolt Checkout for WooCommerce

Bolt is the ultimate checkout solution for WooCommerce sellers who want to boost their sales and provide the security & speed customers expect. With Bolt, deliver a better-than-Amazon checkout experience on your WooCommerce site, with zero fraud built in. WHY WOOCOMMERCE SELLERS LOVE BOLT:

• Lift conversion – Bolt drives 10-20% more completed orders.
• Boost customer LTV – Single-click checkout for seamless repeat purchases.
• Zero fraud guarantee – Approve more good customers with Bolt’s precision fraud engine. Bolt’s fraud decisioning comes with complete chargeback coverage.
• Eliminate costs — No more chargebacks, third-party fraud tools, or manual review. Bolt gives you freedom to focus on your business.
• Made for Mobile – Bolt is built to convert, no matter the device. Bolt improves mobile conversion rates by 83%.*

FEATURES

• Single-click checkout that plugs directly into your website for seamless desktop and mobile commerce.
• Hassle-free integration that ranges from a couple of days to a week.
• Dedicated account management
• 100% coverage of fraudulent chargebacks including full international risk coverage.
• Leading fraud detection, powered by machine learning and Bolt’s team of risk experts, which frees you to focus on your business
• Bank-level security. Bolt is PCI DSS Level I and GDPR compliant.

WHAT YOU DON’T NEED IF YOU USE BOLT:

• Bolt takes what has historically needed 3+ tools and solves them in 1 platform.
• Checkout UI / optimization tools: Bolt is world-class checkout for WooCommerce. We relentlessly A/B test across the Bolt Network, and our highest performing updates automatically deploy to your site.
• A payment processor: No need to install Apple Pay, PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, or other tools. Bolt handles all payment processing for credit and debit cards.
• Fraud scoring or fraud detection software: Bolt leads the industry with its precision fraud engine. Say goodbye to setting up order blocking rules or buying expensive third-party solutions — we have you covered.
• Manual fraud review: Don’t spend hours reviewing orders. Bolt’s team of risk experts reviews each flagged order, freeing up time for you to focus on your business.
• Chargeback representment tools: All representment, including for non-fraud chargebacks, is coordinated by Bolt. * Percentage increase in mobile conversion rates compares Bolt checkout completion rates across online retail partners from Aug 6 – Sep 4, 2018 to compiled benchmarks from, Barilliance, Formisimo, and the Baymard Institute.

A Bolt merchant account is required for setup. Please contact sales@bolt.com or schedule a check-in with our team at bolt.com to check your eligibility. Automatic Installation Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers. Log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New. Manual Installation The manual installation method involves downloading our plugin and uploading it to your server via SFTP. Follow instructions at help.bolt.com.

2.20.0 - 2024-01-18

• Added support for WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage
• Fixed issue where a null or failed response from Bolt's server causes a page rendering error

2.19.0 - 2023-12-07

• Added support for WooCommerce FedEx Shipping
• Added support for WooCommerce ShipperHQ
• Fixed compatibility issues with multiple third-party plugins which we already support, including: WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro, RouteApp, WooCommerce Smart Coupons
• Fixed issue where subscription was showing as an undefined index
• Fixed issue with Load Bolt PaymentOnly key on non-checkout page
• Fixed issue where plugin attempts to get() session value before WC()->session is initiated, which returns WC()->session as null and causes errors for subsequent calls on WC()->session
• Orders no longer duplicate when payment fails once

2.18.0 - 2023-02-17

• added support for Wholesale for WooCommerce
• Fixes issue where order statuses were not properly updated when payment was completed
• Resolves issue where the plugin returned a null customer value when applying a coupon via the Bolt modal
• Prevents issue where adding an item to a cart with a cart fee results in a checkout error
• The plugin now correctly reflects Amazon Pay and Paypal order refunds as In Progress

2.17.0 - 2022-11-18

• added support for Free Gifts for WooCommerce
• added support for WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing
• Fixes issue where WordPress administrator index page threw an error related to the Bolt plugin
• Fixes undefined constant BoltCheckout\id
• Fixes issue where negative fees were treated as discounts
• Resolves issue where merchants could not sync order meta data between WooCommerce and Route

2.16.0 - 2022-07-25

• now supports Single Sign-On for shoppers. (Requires enablement in the Bolt Admin Dashboard)
• added support for WooCommerce Store Credit
• added support for WooCommerce CheckoutWC Sidecart
• added Advanced Shipment Tracking Plugin support

2.15.0 - 2022-03-16

• now uses WooCommerce native session instead of Bolt cart session (Requires enablement in the Bolt Admin Dashboard)
• separate shipping and tax endpoints (Requires enablement in the Bolt Admin Dashboard)
• added support for Bolt order management
• added support for WooCommerce's Shipment Tracking plugin
• added support for non-Bolt orders
• added support for Route app
• added support for WooCommerce Side cart
• added support for Discount Rules for WooCommerce v2
• added support for PW WooCommerce Gift Cards
• bug fix - the callback function in the Bolt plugin is only triggered for Bolt orders.
• bug fix - variation attributes of cart items are now consistent and complete.

2.14.1 - 2021-04-22

• bug fix - unable to add/remove YITH gift card by the update-cart api request
• bug fix - use of undefined constant id
• bug fix - call to undefined function of WooCommerce_Extra_Shipping_Options
• bug fix - call to a member function on uninitialized WC()->session

2.14.0 - 2021-03-04

• add support for Custom Fields
• add support for WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing
• add support for WooCommerce Extra Shipping Options
• add support for WooCommerce AvaTax
• add support for WooCommerce Conditional Shipping and Payments
• add support for WooCommerce Discount Rules
• bug fix - unable to edit the items from Bolt modal if item quantity is greater than stock quantity
• bug fix - removing items from cart with threshold discount causes an error
• bug fix - using WooCommerce Store Credit fails in some cases
• bug fix - reduce the chance of creating duplicate orders
• bug fix - checkout gets stuck at delivery step if the Bolt cart session is missing for some reasons
• bug fix - UPS api does not recognize encoded region code from Bolt plugin
• code cleanup for compatibility with old extensions

2.13.1 - 2020-10-13

• Patch for 2.13.0. Resolves issue where errors would display incorrect messaging to end-users

2.13.0 - 2020-09-29

• updated discount description format
• fix compatibility issue with YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium
• fixed an issue that can cause Bolt checkout button missing
• fixed cart amount mismatch issue when store credit of Smart Coupons is applied from WooC native checkout page
• fixed an issue can cause cart loading error when cart item property value is too long

2.12.0 - 2020-08-19

• adds support to add/remove variable product for the update cart endpoint
• bug fix - Unexpected HTML contents generated by filter/action breaks Bolt cart
• bug fix - Undefined variation data
• bug fix - Value of Bolt cart item properties is too long

2.11.0 - 2020-07-09

• bug fix - exceptions when API key is not set
• bug fix - order token should be fetched again if it is empty

2.10.0 - 2020-06-17

• tested up to woocommerce 4.1.1
• bug fix - backoffice key does not load for guest order
• fix display of APM/PayPal transactions within WooCommerce dashboard

2.9.0 - 2020-05-27

• bug fix - attribute value is missing if variation has unspecified attribute in product setup
• some refactoring and test coverage improvements

2.8.0 - 2020-05-06

• Fix compatibility issue with WooCommerce Smart Coupon
• Fix bug - Shipping tax calculation bug with 3rd-party shipping carrier plugin
• Fix bug - The field ship_to_different_address of WC posted data is set to incorrect value

2.7.1 - 2020-04-22

• Fix bug - Shipping tax calculation doesn't work with 3rd-party shipping carrier plugin

2.7.0 - 2020-04-15

• add option to remove default checkout buttons on cart page and mini cart
• fix discount total mismatch issue for the latest WooCommerce Smart Coupon plugin

2.6.0 - 2020-03-19

• show error on pay for order page if order doesn't have billing/shipping address
• if variable product does not have an image use parent product's image
• bug fix - shipping tax mismatch when calculating tax when shipping is taxable
• bug fix - correctly process refund when cart contains free item
• bug fix - unexpected warning build cart: found rounding issue is triggered when applying YITH gift cards

2.5.0 - 2020-03-03

• don't send API request when merchant key is empty
• update session time if we have failed hook to prevent data deletion
• handle discount rounding issue
• bug fix - Bolt does not calculate gift card for shipping if it is applied via WC coupon input box
• bug fix - Pre-auth order creation does not return error in proper way
• bux fix - error response for failed hook
• bug fix - Bolt discount input box does not accept Gift Card
• bug fix - shipping total mismatch when the balance of yith gift card
• bug fix - Bolt PPC does not work with Autoptimize
• bug fix - cart tax mismatch when wc option Round tax at subtotal level, instead of rounding per line is enabled

2.4.0 - 2020-02-04

• disable checkout tracking if bolt is not available
• tested up to Woocommerce 3.9.1
• removed duplicated plugin setting - 'quick_checkout_button_class'
• bug fix - product page checkout doesn't work together with Bolt subscription
• bug fix - invalid address displayed in bolt modal
• performance improvements and code cleanup
• various other bug fixes

2.3.0 - 2020-01-09

• implemented a new endpoint - update-cart (Beta) which is used for supporting features like product addon
• tested up to Woocommerce 3.8.1
• various bug fixes
• performance improvements and code cleanup

2.1.0 - 2019-11-21

• add support for multi-currency shop
• performance improvements on cache handling of shipping and tax endpoint
• performance improvement - write cart session in merchant DB only when we create new bolt cart
• bug fix - 'force_approve' and 'confirm_rejection' order actions
• bug fix - output bolt-quick-pay-btn div on cart page and minicart
• bug fix - fee is missing if created via hook
• bug fix - order creation error during shipping and tax calculation when merchant uses some third party plugins

2.0.12 - 2019-10-28

• Add support for Bolt custom checkboxes
• Add support for configuring publishable key back-office in setting
• Various bug fixes

2.0.11 - 2019-09-30

• performance improvements for woocommerce webhooks
• performance improvements for local pickup shipping method
• deprecate support for Woocommerce below 3.0.0
• some minor bug fixes

2.0.10 - 2019-09-03

• performance improvements for tax calculation
• updated the display of bolt transaction id the same as merchant dashboard
• performance improvements for javascript
• added support to data clean up in nginx
• some minor bug fixes

2.0.9 - 2019-08-20

• Hotfix for 2.0.8 - fixed an issue that could cause order creation error when using an alternative shipping option

2.0.8 - 2019-08-08

• Remove auto-capture setting
• Fix the calculation of item unit price in backoffice order
• Fix an issue that causes order creation to hang when the merchant's server is slow
• Update error messages for refund and checkout page
• Some code base improvements

2.0.7 - 2019-07-22

• Hotfix for 2.0.6 - fixed an issue that could cause order creation error when using an alternative shipping option

2.0.6 - 2019-07-17

• Add support for Woocommerce 3.6.5
• Use order_number instead order_id as display_id
• Add order notes when capture request is failed
• Update setting page to include pre-auth URL
• Various bug fixes
• Code refactoring and cleanup

2.0.5 - 2019-06-27

• Clean up unexpected js/html for Bolt API response
• Do not cancel unpaid order if it was created via backend
• Fix bug related to disappeared Bolt button in some cases
• Fix bug related to error message not showing in some cases
• Fix bug related to refund when auto capture is not enabled

2.0.4 - 2019-06-12

• Hotfix for 2.0.3

2.0.3 - 2019-06-05

• Add support for Woocommerce 3.6.4
• Fix bug related to order notes when enabled pre-auth order creation
• Fix bug related to "confirm email address" field

2.0.2 - 2019-05-23

• Improve reaction time to changes on the cart page
• Add support for Woocommerce 3.6.3
• Improve support for Klaviyo abondoned carts
• Add support for WooCommerce Smart Coupons

2.0.1 - 2019-04-24

• Support for WooCommerce 3.6
• Support for WooCommerce Smart Coupons

2.0.0 - 2019-04-18

• Pre-Authorization WooCommerce Order Creation
• Enhanced Product Page Checkout Support
• FedEx Shipping Calcuation Correction

1.3.7 - 2019-04-10

• Hotfix for 1.3.6

1.3.6 - 2019-03-27

• Support for WooCommerce TM Extra Product Options
• Support for TaxJar
• Fix bug related to local pickup delivery method taxes
• Improve Apple Pay experience for Canada/UK

1.3.5 - 2019-02-11

• Skip postcode validation for Apple Pay transactions
• Support French Canadian province names
• Updated cart validation before order creation
• Bug fixes

1.3.4 - 2019-01-28

• Disable the mini-cart checkout button from cart pages
• Bug fixes

1.3.3 - 2019-01-15

• Support for Apple Pay
• Bolt Product Page Checkout Beta
• Bolt Subscriptions Beta
• Support for YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium plugin
• Bug fixes

1.3.2 - 2018-12-18

• Add item properties to cart information
• Set user context in cart
• Decode HTML symbols in shipping options
• Set correct value for billing name field

1.3.1 - 2018-12-13

• Fix bug validating one-time use coupon
• Fix checkout button display styling

1.3.0 - 2018-12-10

• Add support for Apple Pay
• Restructure plugin options panel
• Fix bug related to shipping options with & sign

1.2.8 - 2018-10-30

• Merchant can now confirm rejection or force approve transaction from wp-admin
• Fix post-purchase redirection for $0 order
• bugfixes

1.2.7 - 2018-10-30

• Bugfixes

1.2.6 - 2018-10-24

• Option to bypass state validation
• Better error message for shipping error

1.2.5 - 2018-10-16

• Add better support for international regions
• Klaviyo support
• Update handling of stocks

1.2.4 - 2018-10-09

• Add better support for chinese regions
• Add support for Bolt theme customization

1.2.3 - 2018-10-04

• No hook when capture is triggered from WooCommerce
• Hotfix for 2.4.3 support

1.2.2 - 2018-10-04

• Fix order status transitions when transaction is captured after completed

1.2.1 - 2018-09-23

• Better treatment of US terittory
• Validate order during shipping&tax API call
• Add option to change button color
• Make the plugin compatible with 2.4.3

1.2.0 - 2018-09-23

• Add logic to cleanup outdated session data
• Add hooks to modify shipping options
• Bugfixes

1.1.5 - 2018-09-05

• Option to sync abandonded cart to woocommerce
• Minor bugfixes

1.1.4 - 2018-08-23

• Performance improvement

1.1.3 - 2018-08-14

• Bugfix around refund
• Minor bugfix

1.1.2 - 2018-07-26

• Adding support for mini cart
• Do not cancel when hook fails

1.1.1 - 2018-07-17

• Fix around order validation
• Fix handling of Quevec
• Bugfix around quick checkout

1.1.0 - 2018-07-03

• invoice for order email
• add support for cart fees
• move bolt txn to private note
• add option to disallow PO box

1.0.11 - 2018-06-12

• Fix related to US country code
• Fix related to session

1.0.10 - 2018-06-06

• Properly update inventory
• Add validation before checkout
• Enable to pass back woocommerce's order ID via hook response

1.0.9 - 2018-04-26

• Refine hook logic
• Fix handling of refund hook

1.0.8 - 2018-04-24

• Fix handling of order in hooks
• Fix error with bad email

1.0.7 - 2018-04-19

• Fix conflict with other payment methods
• Fix rounding issue
• Fix escape of JavaScript config

1.0.6 - 2018-04-16

• Fix error related to using floating point when calling Bolt API
• Minor bugfixes

1.0.5 - 2018-04-10

• Adds consistent labeling of Bolt Transaction Reference
• Improvements in bugsnag reporting
• Add support for WITH gift cards
• Update response format for hooks
• Bugfixes