Athenian Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce
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Athenian Custom Payment Gateways adds structured WooCommerce workflows for terms accounts, manual/offline payments, PO and reference capture, due dates, credit validation, and reconciliation-ready order metadata. It helps B2B, wholesale, marketplace, and operations-heavy stores manage non-card payments with cleaner admin visibility and control. It is designed as a focused module within the broader Athenian Platform, where…
Athenian Custom Payment Gateways & Terms Accounts is the payment workflow layer for WooCommerce stores that need more than standard card checkout. It gives merchants a governed way to support approved terms accounts, admin-only manual payment methods, marketplace-originated payments, offline settlements, purchase order capture, due-date handling, customer credit validation, and reconciliation-ready order metadata.
Instead of forcing Net terms, ACH, wire, check, house account, or marketplace payments into scattered order notes and inconsistent custom fields, the plugin turns those workflows into structured WooCommerce payment paths. Approved customers can check out using a terms account gateway with login requirements, role restrictions, configurable labels, PO or reference capture, automatic due-date calculation, and account-level credit checks.
For staff-managed orders, the plugin also provides an internal-only manual gateway for payments handled outside the storefront, including marketplace orders, ACH, wire transfers, checks, house accounts, and other externally settled channels. Across both workflows, shared metadata keeps purchase order numbers, external references, terms due dates, and payment sources visible, searchable, and usable across WooCommerce admin.
For B2B stores, wholesale operations, marketplace-connected businesses, and finance teams that need cleaner reconciliation, Athenian Custom Payment Gateways helps WooCommerce represent how the order was actually handled commercially, not just whether a card transaction was captured.
How Athenian Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce fits the Athenian Platform
Platform role: Athenian Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce is a focused capability in the Cart, Checkout & Customer Service and Payments, Credits & Payouts layer. Its primary scope covers Checkout & Assisted Ordering and Payment Methods & Tender Control while remaining composable with the other modules an implementation actually requires.
Connected scope: Athenian Custom Payment Gateways for WooCommerce is designed to work inside a WordPress and WooCommerce operating environment where storefront, customer, order, identity, payment, fulfillment, automation, and reporting context can remain connected across relevant modules instead of being trapped in isolated add-ons.
From module to operating platform: Athenian Brands organizes the ecosystem in four connected layers: Platform Kernel and Platform Core foundations; focused capability plugins; implementation and integration services; and operating brands such as PrintGhost.ai, Athenian Marketplace, Athenian Academy, and Athenian Unÿa that apply the same patterns to real business workflows.
Terms Checkout
Give Approved Customers a Governed Net Terms Payment Path
The terms gateway lets approved account customers place WooCommerce orders
with checkout-visible Net terms, PO capture, due dates, role controls, and
customer-specific credit validation.
| Control | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Access Rules | Limit terms checkout to logged-in users, approved roles, or eligible account customers. |
| Net Terms | Display configurable terms labels and calculate due dates from configured net days. |
| PO Capture | Collect purchase order numbers or account references during checkout. |
| Credit Checks | Validate per-order limits and available credit before allowing checkout completion. |
- Support B2B, wholesale, and account-based ordering workflows.
- Require customer approval before exposing terms payment options.
- Capture purchase order and reference details at checkout.
- Protect against orders that exceed configured account credit rules.
Manual Reconciliation
Represent Externally Settled Payments Inside WooCommerce
The admin-only manual gateway gives staff a controlled way to assign payment
methods for orders settled through marketplaces, ACH, wire, check, house
accounts, or other external channels.
Represent eBay, Amazon, or external-channel payment sources
Track ACH, wire, check, house account, and manually verified payments
Keep internal payment methods hidden from storefront checkout
| Workflow | Result |
|---|---|
| Select | Staff assigns the appropriate internal payment method from WooCommerce admin. |
| Reference | External transaction, remittance, or payment source details stay attached to the order. |
| Align | Payment method data, titles, statuses, and supporting metadata remain coordinated. |
| Reconcile | Accounting teams can search and review orders using operational payment data. |
- Support staff-entered orders paid outside WooCommerce checkout.
- Keep manual gateways hidden from normal customers.
- Preserve external payment references for finance review.
- Reduce scattered notes and inconsistent reconciliation fields.
Order Visibility
Keep Payment References Searchable, Visible, and Actionable
Shared payment metadata gives accounting, support, and operations teams the
order-level details they need for follow-up, collections, reconciliation,
and internal routing.
| Metadata | Operational Value |
|---|---|
| PO Number | Associates terms orders with customer purchase order workflows. |
| Due Date | Calculates and stores terms payment deadlines for follow-up and collections. |
| Reference | Stores external transaction, remittance, or marketplace settlement identifiers. |
| Payment Source | Clarifies whether the order was handled through terms, marketplace, ACH, wire, check, or another channel. |
Reconciliation without guesswork:
purchase orders, references, due dates, and payment source labels stay attached
to the WooCommerce order where finance and operations teams can actually use them.
- Expose payment metadata in WooCommerce admin and order preview surfaces.
- Register key reconciliation fields for order search.
- Route terms-order notifications to accounting or operational recipients.
- Keep order state aligned with the real commercial payment workflow.