Simple Deposits for WooCommerce lets you collect a partial advance payment online before a Cash on Delivery order ships, and leaves the rest payable on delivery as normal. It’s built for stores that lose money to unclaimed or refused COD parcels: a small non-refundable deposit filters out low-intent orders while keeping COD as the primary payment experience your customers already trust.
The plugin doesn’t process any payments itself. Instead, a simple “Choose how to pay” toggle appears directly above your normal list of payment methods at checkout, letting the customer pick “pay the deposit + COD” or “pay the full total online now.” They then place the order through whichever of your existing active gateways — bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Stripe, or anything else you already have configured — and that gateway charges exactly the resolved amount, deposit or full. There’s no extra gateway added to your payment method list and no separate picker page to redirect through; nothing about your existing payment setup changes, this plugin just sits alongside it.
Key features
- One flat deposit per cart. If a cart has products with different deposit amounts, only the single highest amount is charged — never summed, never multiplied by quantity.
- Global default + per-product overrides. Set one site-wide deposit amount, then override it for individual products, or per-variation on variable products.
- Customer choice at checkout. Customers can switch between “pay the deposit + COD” and “pay the full total online now” with a simple toggle.
- Minimum-order threshold. Below your configured deposit amount, the plugin automatically requires full online payment instead of a confusing partial split.
- Gateway-agnostic. Choose which of your already-active payment gateways are allowed to collect the deposit. Cash on Delivery itself is never used for the deposit — only for the remainder.
- Cart, checkout, product page, admin, and email visibility. The deposit/remainder split is shown consistently everywhere: cart totals, checkout order review, a deposit badge on the single product page, an order-list column and metabox in wp-admin, and appended rows in every WooCommerce order email.
- High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatible. All order data is read and written through core WC_Order methods.
- Translation-ready and safe to uninstall cleanly (data removal is opt-in, off by default).
How it works
- A customer adds products to their cart. The applicable deposit (highest per-product amount in the cart) is shown on the cart page and at checkout.
- At checkout, a “Choose how to pay” toggle appears directly above your normal list of payment methods, letting them pick “Pay Deposit + COD” or “Pay Full Amount Online Now.”
- They place the order as usual through whichever of your eligible gateways they choose (bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, etc.) — that gateway charges exactly the resolved amount, deposit or full, with no redirect and no extra picker page.
- The order is saved with its full, real total and the deposit/remainder breakdown recorded against it. The remaining balance stays due on delivery as normal, and order status itself is left entirely to whichever gateway actually processed the payment.
Requirements
- WooCommerce, active and up to date.
- At least one other active payment gateway (bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Stripe, PayPal, etc.) configured to collect the deposit — this plugin does not process payments on its own.