Description

The WooCommerce Purchase Order Payment Gateway is an essential enterprise-grade extension designed for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. It allows corporate clients, wholesale buyers, and government agencies to place orders on your online store using a Purchase Order (PO) Number instead of entering a credit card or processing an immediate digital payment.

In 2026, this plugin is vital for hybrid retail/wholesale stores built on multi-vendor systems (like Dokan Pro) or heavy enterprise setups. It streamlines the procurement process by creating an asynchronous checkout workflow: users submit their official internal PO number at checkout, the order is safely secured in your database, and your accounting team invoices them manually later according to standard corporate net payment terms (e.g., Net 30, Net 60).

Key Features:

• Seamless PO Input Field: Adds a clean, customizable text field directly to the WooCommerce checkout page where corporate buyers can input their official company purchase order reference code.

• Dynamic Visibility & User Role Filtering: Don’t expose wholesale payment terms to casual retail shoppers. Restrict the visibility of the Purchase Order gateway so it only appears for specific, pre-approved WordPress user roles (e.g., “Wholesale Buyer”, “Corporate Client”).

• Wholesale & Multi-Vendor Compatibility: Works flawlessly alongside advanced design systems and marketplace layouts like Woodmart and Dokan Pro, ensuring corporate buyers experience a seamless checkout path.

• Custom Order Status Control: Define exactly what status a PO order takes upon submission. Set it to On Hold or Pending Payment so your fulfillment team knows not to ship physical or digital assets until the paper invoice is officially cleared by your finance department.

• Automated Email Invoicing Integrations: Automatically includes the provided Purchase Order Number in core WooCommerce emails (Customer Invoice, Admin New Order) and generates PDF invoices featuring the PO reference for clear tracking.

• Order Notes Audit Trail: Keeps your database organized by automatically logging the entered PO number into the WooCommerce Order Notes timeline for internal tracking and customer support history.

• Instructions & Instruction Fields: Display clear, localized checkout instructions to your B2B customers explaining where to send their formal PO documents or who to contact for accounting approval.