The official Mercado Pago plugin allows you to process payments for your online store, allowing users to finalize their purchase with their preferred payment method.
To install it,
you don't need to have technical knowledge: you can follow the
step by step of how to integrate it. from our developer website and start selling today.
Warning about v6.0.0: when updating, if you have made custom layout changes to your checkout, it is possible that some of those customizations become misconfigured. If you have a separate store environment just for testing, please update there first in order to visualize and test the changes.
What to do with the Mercado Pago Plugin?
- Activate Checkout Pro to offer logged-in payments with money in Mercado Pago account, saved cards and off means.
- Offer payments without the need of having a Mercado Pago account, through the Custom Checkout for cards and off means, such as cash, bank transfer and PIX (only in Brazil).
- Automatically convert the currency of your products: from Mexican pesos to U.S. dollars and vice versa.
- Sell in installments and offer the current promotions in Checkout Pro or apply your own discount coupon in Custom Checkout.
- Test your store before going into production with our Sandbox environment.
- Receive the money from your sales on the same day.
- IMPORTANT: At the moment the Mercado Envios service is deactivated.
- Mercado Pago customers can use already stored cards For your customers who use Mercado Pago to buy without having to fill in card details at the store's checkout.
Adapted to your business
Prepared for any type of store and category: electronics, clothing, kitchen, bazaar, whatever you want!
Just focus on selling and
we'll take care of the security: keep your store's payments protected with our fraud prevention and analysis tool.
Boost your sales with Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce!
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Minimum Technical Requirements
- WordPress version
- Compatibility and dependency of WooCommerce VXX
- LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- SSL Certificate
- Additional configuration: safe_mode off, memory_limit higher than 256MB
Install the module in two different ways: automatically, from the “Plugins” section of WordPress, or manually, downloading and copying the plugin files into your directory.
Automatic Installation by WordPress admin
- Access "Plugins" from the navigation side menu of your WordPress administrator.
- Once inside Plugins, click on 'Add New' and search for 'Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce' in the WordPress Plugin list
- Click on "Install."
Done! It will be in the "Installed Plugins" section and from there you can activate it.
Manual Installation
- Download the [zip] (https://github.com/mercadopago/cart-woocommerce/archive/master.zip) now or from the o WordPress Module [Directory] (https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-mercadopago/)
- Unzip the folder and rename it to ”woocommerce-mercadopago”
- Copy the "woocommerce-mercadopago" file into your WordPress directory, inside the "Plugins" folder.
Done!
Installing this plugin does not affect the speed of your store!
If you installed it correctly, you will see it in your list of "Installed Plugins" on the WordPress work area. Please enable it and proceed to your Mercado Pago account integration and setup.
Mercado Pago Integration
- Create a Mercado Pago seller account if you don't have one yet. It's free and takes only seconds!
- Get your credentials, they are the keys that uniquely identify you within the platform.
- Set checkout payment preferences and make other advanced settings to change default options.
- Approve your account to go to Production and receive real payments.
Configuration
Set up both the plugin and the checkouts you want to activate on your payment avenue. Follow these five steps instructions and get everything ready to receive payments:
- Add your credentials to test the store and charge with your Mercado Pago account according to the country where you are registered.
- Approve your account in order to charge.
- Fill in the basic information of your business in the plugin configuration.
- Set up payment preferences for your customers.
- Access advanced plugin and checkout settings only when you want to change the default settings.
Check out our
official documentation for more information on the specific fields to configure.
v8.10.2 (12/11/2026)
- Fixed
- Improve request validation for Mercado Pago notices in the WordPress admin
v8.10.1 (12/11/2026)
- Added
- Pix via Open Finance (Brazil): eligible buyers can pay with a bank account already connected to their Mercado Pago account, without copying a Pix code or scanning a QR code. Available on the Classic, Blocks and Order Pay checkouts. The conventional Pix QR code and copy-and-paste code remain available as an option. While Open Finance loads, the Pix option shows a loading indicator; if it cannot load, the conventional Pix is shown
- Pix via Open Finance order confirmation: the page shows the payment progress and updates automatically when the payment is approved, rejected or cancelled, with specific messages for insufficient balance and daily limit, and a link to start a new purchase
- Pix via Open Finance orders are confirmed by Mercado Pago notifications and respect the store's paid order status. Cancellations and full or partial refunds stay in sync with Mercado Pago, including refunds made outside WooCommerce
- Show the Mercado Pago Order ID of Pix via Open Finance orders in the order Custom Fields, as "Mercado Pago - Order ID"
- Add an account-linking notice to the WooCommerce admin, with a "Vincular conta" / "Vincular cuenta" button. Merchants can close it temporarily, and it does not overlap other notices
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Fixed
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Always show and require the cardholder name in the card checkout, and move the focus to the field when it is empty. Before, the field could be hidden for some cards, and the payment was rejected after the order was placed
- Restore the card checkout fields on mobile when the checkout is updated several times in a row
- Stop unnecessary reloads of the fast payment styles in Safari
See changelog for all versions.