Check if a Payment Method Support Refunds, Subscriptions or Pre-orders

Payment methods can add support for certain features from WooCommerce and its extensions. For example, a payment method can support refunds, subscriptions or pre-orders functionality.

If the payment method documentation doesn’t clearly outline the supported features, you can often find what features are supported by looking at payment methods code.

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Simplify Commerce example

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Taking the Simplify Commerce payment method as an example. Open the plugin files in your favorite editor and search for $this->supports, then you can find the supported features:

class WC_Gateway_Simplify_Commerce extends WC_Payment_Gateway {    

/**      * Constructor   */
    public function __construct() {
        $this->id
                 = 'simplify_commerce';
        $this->method_title
       = __( 'Simplify Commerce', 'woocommerce' );
        $this->method_description = __( 'Take payments via Simplify Commerce - uses simplify.js to create card tokens and the Simplify Commerce SDK. Requires SSL when sandbox is disabled.', 'woocommerce' );
        $this->has_fields         = true;
        $this->supports           = array(
            'subscriptions',
            'products',
            'subscription_cancellation',
            'subscription_reactivation',
            'subscription_suspension',
            'subscription_amount_changes',
            'subscription_payment_method_change',
            'subscription_date_changes',
            'default_credit_card_form',
            'refunds',
            'pre-orders'
        );

If you don’t find $this->supports in the plugin files, that may mean that the payment method isn’t correctly declaring support for refunds, subscripts or pre-orders.