Overview
What is the Minimal Stripe Wrapper Plugin?
Minimal Stripe Wrapper (MSWR) is a lightweight and secure WordPress plugin designed to streamline Stripe payments with minimal setup and maximum flexibility. Unlike complex, feature-heavy payment plugins, MSWR provides a low-footprint solution that leverages Stripe Checkout, ensuring the highest level of security while keeping your site’s payment workflow simple and efficient.
Unlike other payment plugins that assume a traditional shopping cart or physical products, this plugin gives you full control over how payments are integrated into your site. It allows you to process payments efficiently without enforcing a specific workflow.
This makes MSWR ideal for websites that need a streamlined way to handle payments for services, memberships, donations, or digital products—without the complexity of full-scale e-commerce solutions.
Who Should Use This Plugin?
The Minimal Stripe Wrapper plugin is perfect for:
- Website owners who want a simple way to accept payments without a full shopping cart.
- Service providers who charge for appointments, consultations, or digital services.
- Membership sites that need a basic payment gateway without subscriptions.
- Non-profits and fundraisers accepting donations via Stripe.
- Developers who want to integrate a low-footprint, flexible payment option into their own plugin.
Key Features
- Stripe Checkout Integration – Supports one-time payments for memberships (without subscriptions), donations, and other use cases. Works for both logged-in users and visitors.
- Automatic Fee Recovery – Optionally add a surcharge to cover Stripe’s transaction fees, ensuring you receive the full payment amount without hidden costs.
- Donate Form, ready to use, shortcode-driven.
- Easy to Implement, Simple installation with minimal setup required, MSWR offers multiple ways to integrate payments, ranging from a no-code option to developer-friendly API access:
- No-Code: Use a shortcode-generated button provided by the plugin.
- Minimal Effort: Attach payments to any clickable element (button, link, etc.) by simply adding a CSS class.
- Developer Access: Utilize an action hook for seamless integration with custom workflows.
- Page-Builder Friendly – Works seamlessly with popular WordPress page builders, allowing you to add payment buttons without breaking your design. Whether you’re using Divi, Elementor, or another builder, you can insert payment buttons via any of the methods provided.
- Test Before You Go Live – Easily switch between Stripe Test Mode and Live Mode, allowing sandbox testing without affecting real transactions.
- Security First – Built on Stripe Checkout, ensuring PCI compliance, fraud detection, and secure payment tokenization. No sensitive card details are stored on your site.
- Custom Rate Limiting – Add a further layer of protection against abuse by limiting payment attempts per IP address within a set time frame.
- Transaction History – Retains all transactions for later audit or cross-referencing to Stripe. You can download transactions as a CSV file.