WordPress is a popular ecommerce website building tool that allows you to quickly and easily accept credit card payments and other payment methods online.
Get your WordPress website up and running to securely accept your customers’ credit card information via a fast and frictionless hosted ecommerce checkout process. Then, enjoy an intuitive user experience that allows you to access analytics-based data through a convenient admin dashboard to help grow your business. You can even add payment buttons to start accepting online payments in just a few steps by pairing WordPress with an ecommerce plugin. This guide explains how to add WordPress to your web server and setup the EPX WooCommerce payment plugin to start accepting ecommerce payments on your website. No programming is needed because setup is done entirely through the command-line interface (CLI) and your browser.
Understanding EPX (Electronic Payment Exchange)
Requirements
The steps and sample commands in this guide are written for users with admin access to the environment described below. If you’re working in a different environment, the sample commands or steps may need to be adjusted.
- OS: Linux or similar
- Web server: Apache installed and configured to host files from /var/www/html/
- PHP installed and configured
Installing WordPress
Installing and Configuring mariadb
Creating a Database and User for WordPress
Exit the mariadb prompt.
Running the WordPress Setup Wizard


Installing the WooCommerce Plugin

Installing and Configuring the EPX Plugin

Adding a Product
Testing the Purchasing Process

Finishing Setup
To finish setting up your ecommerce WordPress store, adjust the other WooCommerce settings, such as tax and shipping preferences, and add the rest of your products to your online inventory. When you’re ready to start accepting payments, contact the Sales Engineering team for Production WooCommerce Plugin Credentials. Make sure you do not use your Sandbox credentials in a production environment. Then uncheck the “Enable EPX TEST Transactions” box on the EPX WooCommerce plugin configuration. Payments submitted through your online store will be processed using your Merchant ID (MID).
For more information about adding value to your business with the EPX WooCommerce plugin, fill out our contact form and a support representative will reach out to you shortly.