Payment Settings

The Payments tab under Meta Membership > Settings controls how members pay: the site’s currency, and which payment gateways are available. Each gateway has its own block where you enable it and set the instructions members see at checkout.

A note on where things live: the Manual gateway is built into Meta Membership itself, while the Credit Card (Stripe) and POLi gateways are provided by the Minimal Stripe Wrapper plugin and its add-ons. This page enables and configures those gateways for membership payments, but their underlying setup — API keys, test/live mode, webhooks, and per-gateway surcharges — is handled in Minimal Stripe Wrapper’s own settings. The relevant gateway sections link across to it.

Click Save Changes at the bottom when done.

Currency — the currency used for membership fees. Choose from the list or start typing a 3-letter ISO 4217 code (e.g. NZD, AUD, USD). This is a site-wide default that an individual membership type can override. See [Membership Types].

Gateway sections
Each available gateway has its own section with the same structure: an Enabled toggle and a Payment Instructions editor. Available gateways include:

• Credit Card (Stripe) — card payments via Minimal Stripe Wrapper.
• POLi Payments — New Zealand internet banking, via the Meta Poli Payments add-on.
• Manual Payment — bank transfer, cash, or cheque; built into Meta Membership.

Tick Enable this payment gateway to make it available. Enabling a gateway here makes it available to membership type(s) — each type then chooses which of the available gateways it offers, via its Allowed Payment Gateways setting. A gateway that isn’t enabled here can’t be offered by any type. See [Membership Types].

So this tab controls which gateways exist for membership payments; each membership type controls which of those it uses.

👉 A Stripe or POLi gateway also needs to be configured in Minimal Stripe Wrapper before it will work — enabling it here makes it available to Meta Membership, but the actual payment processing (API keys, surcharge, test/live mode) is set up on the Minimal Stripe settings page, linked from within each gateway’s section.

Payment Instructions

The text shown to a member when they choose this gateway. These instructions appear in the payment dialog at checkout, and may also be included in notification emails.

When you add a gateway, Meta Membership pre-fills a sensible default instruction — for example, the Stripe default explains that the member will be taken to Stripe’s secure servers to complete payment. You can edit this freely to suit your organisation. The field accepts basic HTML, so you can include headings and formatting.

👉 The Manual gateway’s instructions are where you’d put your bank account details or payment reference format, since there’s no automated processing — the member reads these instructions and pays you directly.

Meta Membership doesn’t set surcharges. If a gateway applies a surcharge (for example, passing on card-processing fees), that’s configured per-gateway in Minimal Stripe Wrapper, not on this page. The gateway’s payment instructions are the right place to mention a surcharge to members — as the default Stripe instruction does — but the amount itself is applied by Minimal Stripe Wrapper at payment time.

• Choose which gateways each membership type offers: [Membership Types]
• Set up Stripe API keys and surcharges: see the [Minimal Stripe Wrapper documentation]
• Configure the emails members receive: [Notifications]