Built to remove barriers
Global ecommerce is hard—regulatory complexity, surprise costs, and fragmented tools create friction for your team and your customers. Checkout replaces the guesswork with a localized experience that handles duty, tax, shipping, fraud protection, and restricted items behind the scenes—so your shoppers get a seamless checkout, and your business can expand globally with confidence.
Why merchants choose Zonos Checkout for WooCommerce
Checkout was built to solve international ecommerce challenges, where trust is hard to earn. From the first moment a shopper lands on your site to the moment their order arrives, every part of Checkout works together to create a localized, low-friction experience while keeping you in control of what matters most: your brand, your margins, and your customer relationships.
Features
- Engage shoppers with Zonos Hello - Shoppers bounce fast. Zonos Hello greets them in their own language and automatically adapts your site to their currency—giving them instant confidence that you ship to their location before they even start browsing. Configurable with country-specific custom messages.
- Make global shoppers feel at home - Checkout automatically carries over the shopper’s language and currency, creating a smooth, localized checkout experience from browsing to payment. Local payment methods are built in, so shoppers can pay the way they’re used to.
- Stay in control of shipping - Who you choose to ship with is crucial to your customer experience—and your bottom line. Zonos lets you use your preferred carriers and negotiated rates. Our advanced shipment rating provides dimensional weight, cartonization, and custom shipping logic, allowing you to confidently manage shipping incentives without cutting into your margins.
- Prevent restricted item issues - Shipping restricted items can lead to customs seizures, delays, and costly support issues. Zonos removes restricted products at checkout, seamlessly avoiding these issues and ensuring customs compliance.
- Avoid surprise fees at delivery – Surprise fees at delivery damage customer trust and create costly support headaches like returned or abandoned packages. Zonos provides duty and tax calculation (including tariffs) at checkout, and guarantees that no additional costs will be due. We cover any differences, protecting your customers and your margins. Plus, fewer rejected packages reduce the strain on your customer support team while increasing customer satisfaction.
- Stay compliant—without the risk - Staying compliant with constantly changing global tax schemes is time-consuming and risky. With Zonos, you’re instantly compliant without even thinking about it. Zonos handles tax registration and remittance, assuming liability for low-value tax schemes like UK VAT, IOSS, and others—including any that may emerge—so you can stay focused on growth, not global tax requirements.
- Protect against international fraud - Cross-border fraud is complex and costly. Zonos Checkout includes built-in fraud protection designed specifically for international transactions—screening orders based on country-specific risk, shipping patterns, and other fraud signals. If a fraudulent order slips through, Zonos covers the loss. You stay protected, and your shoppers get a seamless, secure experience.
- Automate U.S. sales tax - U.S. sales tax involves thousands of state, county, and city tax rates, complicating compliance. Zonos, as your merchant of record, handles every detail—accurately calculating, collecting, and filing—so you stay compliant without the stress.
- Simplify your tech stack - Managing a global business often requires a combination of apps, plugins, and manual workflows to communicate between them. Zonos eliminates this complexity by consolidating a localized checkout experience, international payment processing, fraud protection, order management, tax compliance, shipment label creation and commercial invoice management into one streamlined product—reducing cost and operational overhead across your business.
To install and set up Zonos Checkout for WooCommerce, please follow our step-by-step
integration guide. It covers everything from plugin installation to configuration and testing.
Before you begin, make sure your store meets the following requirements:
- WordPress 5.2 or higher
- WooCommerce (latest version recommended)
- PHP 8.1 or higher
- Zonos API Keys (available in your Zonos Dashboard)
Need help setting up your store? Contact our support team at
support@zonos.com—we’re here to help!
Public documentation
For more details on how Zonos Checkout works, please see our
Checkout documentation.
External Services
This plugin connects to external services provided by Zonos to enable international checkout functionality:
Zonos Platform
- Service Purpose: Provides international checkout processing, duty and tax calculation, currency conversion, and shipping options for international customers.
- Data Transmission: When a customer clicks the "International Checkout" button, the following data is sent to Zonos servers:
- Cart contents (product information, quantities, prices)
- Customer information (when provided during checkout)
- Store information necessary for processing orders
- When Data is Sent: Data is sent when customers initiate the international checkout process and during order synchronization between WooCommerce and Zonos.
- Terms of Service: Zonos Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy: Zonos Privacy Policy
Zonos API
- Service Purpose: Enables communication between your WooCommerce store and the Zonos platform for order synchronization, product mapping, and webhook integration.
- Data Transmission: API calls exchange order status, tracking information, and product data between your WooCommerce store and Zonos.
- When Data is Sent: During initial setup, order processing, status updates, and when products are added or modified in your store.
- Terms of Service: Zonos Terms of Service
- Privacy Policy: Zonos Privacy Policy
2025-03-06 - version 1.0.0
2025-03-10 - version 1.0.1
- Implements solution to avoid waiting to click when domestic
- Upgrades PHP Version - Fixes security concerns - Upgrades PHP compatibility
2025-03-21 - version v1.1.0
- Creating release action
- Adds charts
- Initial Implementation of international checkout button
- Implements fix for domestic checkout and creates advanced settings section
2025-03-28 - version 1.3.0
- Bump SDK version to v1.1.1
- Fix plugin check errors
2025-04-02 - version v1.4.0
- Tweaking release file
- Fix release
- Adds a description for the Debug Mode
- Rename Plugin
2025-04-15 - version v1.4.1
- Resolve issues with WordPress plugin
2025-04-18 - version v1.4.2
- Plugin Code quality fixes
2025-05-01 - version v1.4.3
- WordPress QA fixes
- Updates readme with external services disclosures
2025-05-07 - version v1.4.4
- Update composer.json
- Adding private key check
2025-05-12 - version v1.4.5
- Fixing initiation of the plugin
2025-05-27 - version v1.4.6
- Adding second checkout button
- Implements configurable rate limit
2025-05-30 - version v1.4.7
2025-06-11 - version v1.4.8
2025-06-26 - version v1.4.9
- Ratelimit increase
- Updates query selector for checkout button