TINSE Secure Pay on Delivery for WooCommerce
The Pay on Delivery choice at checkout, showing what the buyer pays now and at the door.
Unpaid Pay on Delivery orders cost merchants twice: once to send the parcel, and again to bring it back when the buyer refuses it. Secure Pay on Delivery makes every POD buyer put something on the table first — through a real prepaid gateway — so only serious buyers get through.
How it works
- Orders below your threshold: the buyer prepays outbound shipping plus a return-shipping guarantee. When the parcel is accepted, the guarantee is deducted from the cash they hand the courier. If delivery fails or is refused, the guarantee covers bringing the parcel home.
- Orders at or above your threshold: the buyer prepays a part-payment (a percentage of the total or a fixed amount). No return fee is charged.
- Courier cash-handling fee: a percentage (plus optional fixed amount, minimum and maximum) calculated on the cash balance actually collected at the door.
- Prepaid gateways only: bank transfer (BACS), cheque and the core Cash on Delivery gateway are removed whenever Pay on Delivery is selected. Optionally restrict to an allow-list (e.g. Paystack, Flutterwave, Stripe).
- Choose your POD products: allow POD on selected products only, or on everything except the products you exclude.
- Return rate sources: mirror the outbound shipping cost (works with any shipping method or courier plugin), or a flat fee. Developers can plug in any carrier API with the
tspod_return_rate_providersfilter. - Delivery outcomes: record “delivered, balance collected” or “delivery failed / refused” from the order screen. The amount to collect is shown on the order, the thank-you page and emails.
- Works with the classic checkout, page-builder checkouts that use the classic form, and the WooCommerce Checkout block. HPOS compatible.
Example (threshold $1,000, 30% part-payment, 1.5% cash-handling fee, return fee = shipping × 1.1)
- $250 order, $10 shipping, $11 return guarantee: pay $21.00 now, $242.64 cash on delivery.
- $3,500 order, $15 shipping: pay $1,065.69 now, $2,486.61 cash on delivery.
Works in any currency your store uses.
No courier or shipping API required. The return fee is calculated from whatever your existing shipping method charges, or a flat fee you set.
Privacy
This plugin does not send data to any external service, does not use cookies, and does not track users. It stores the Pay on Delivery breakdown for each order as order meta so the merchant knows how much to collect.