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WooCommerce Payment Gateways API

Retrieve and configure available payment gateways

WooCommerce Payment Gateways API is one of 21 APIs that WooCommerce publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 7 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Payment Gateways. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and 7 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v3.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://example.com/wp-json/wc/v3.

3 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v3
Base URL
https://example.com/wp-json/wc/v3
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

WooCommerce Payment Gateways API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic Auth using the WooCommerce Consumer Key as the username and Consumer Secret as the password over HTTPS. Over plain HTTP use OAuth 1.0a one-legged au…

Paths & Operations 3

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 2 GET, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Payment Gateways 3

Retrieve and configure available payment gateways

GET
/payment_gateways
WooCommerce List All Payment Gateways
listPaymentGateways → 200401
GET
/payment_gateways/{id}
WooCommerce Retrieve a Payment Gateway
getPaymentGateway 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/payment_gateways/{id}
WooCommerce Update a Payment Gateway
updatePaymentGateway 1 param body → 200400401404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PaymentGateway (9 properties), Error (3 properties), PaymentGatewayInput (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PaymentGatewayInput
object
Input for updating a payment gateway.
2 properties
PaymentGateway
object
A payment gateway installed in the WooCommerce store.
9 properties
Error
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

woocommerce-payment-gateways-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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