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Orders stay pending after successful Paystack payment

Paystack payments succeed but WooCommerce orders stay Pending payment or never update to paid.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

7 public reports · first reported 28 April 2022 · last reported 4 July 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners using the Paystack WooCommerce gateway report that customers pay successfully on Paystack, yet the matching WooCommerce order remains in pending payment, or checkout spins on a loading screen indefinitely.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.