# Payments via Polar for WooCommerce

> A WooCommerce payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that works out, collects and remits sales tax and VAT for you.

[Polar](https://polar.sh) is a merchant of record: it's the seller of each payment, so it works out, collects and remits sales tax and VAT for you. This plugin adds Polar as a payment method at your WooCommerce checkout. It's for digital products only.

## Requirements

- WordPress 6.5 or later
- WooCommerce 8.0 or later
- PHP 8.1 or later
- A Polar organization, and a sandbox organization for testing

## What it checks

- **An order is marked paid only when Polar collected exactly its total, in its currency** (before tax, when your prices exclude tax). A payment for any other amount puts the order on hold.
- **The thank-you page checks with Polar before it shows**, and waits a few seconds for a payment still being confirmed. Scheduled checks 15 and 60 minutes later catch any payment the webhook missed.
- **Refunds go both ways.** Refund in the order screen and the money goes back through Polar; refunds made in Polar show up on the order; a refund Polar couldn't pay is noted.
- **Polar's figures on the order screen:** its fee, the tax it collected and what's left, plus the Polar IDs support asks for.

## Where to go next

- [Set it up](/docs/payments-via-polar/setup/)
- [Webhooks](/docs/payments-via-polar/webhooks/)
- [Tax and refunds](/docs/payments-via-polar/tax-and-refunds/)
- [Subscriptions](/docs/payments-via-polar/subscriptions/)
- [Embedded payment form](/docs/payments-via-polar/embedded-checkout/)
- [Test mode](/docs/payments-via-polar/test-mode/)
- [What it doesn't do, and FAQ](/docs/payments-via-polar/limits-and-faq/)

Checked against Payments via Polar for WooCommerce 1.2.3 on main, 19 October 2026.