WooCommerce: Add Content To The “Order Pay” Page

The WooCommerce “Order Pay” page is a hidden gem within the checkout process. It’s not typically encountered during a standard customer purchase journey – it comes into play when a store admin creates a manual order in the WooCommerce backend and sets it to “Pending” order status, often for scenarios like phone orders or custom quotes. WooCommerce generates a unique URL that can be shared with the customer for secure online payment.

TLDR: the “Order Pay” page serves a specific purpose โ€“ allowing customers to complete payment for manually created orders.

If you’ve seen the “Order Pay” page before, you know it only contains the order items table, and the payment form. Nothing else. So, let’s add some HTML content above the table, like a heading, some text, a banner, or whatever you may need to help the customer submit their payment asap!

PHP Snippet: Add HTML Content @ WooCommerce Order Pay Page

/**
 * @snippet       Add Content To WooCommerce Order Pay Page
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 8
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_action( 'before_woocommerce_pay_form', 'bbloomer_add_content_order_pay_page', 10, 3 );

function bbloomer_add_content_order_pay_page( $order, $order_button_text, $available_gateways ) {
   echo '<h3>This is a nice heading</h3>';
   echo '<p>This is some content with a <a href="">link</a>.</p>';
   echo '<img src="banner.jpg">';
}

Where to add custom code?

You should place custom PHP in functions.php and custom CSS in style.css of your child theme: where to place WooCommerce customization?

This code still works, unless you report otherwise. To exclude conflicts, temporarily switch to the Storefront theme, disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and test the snippet again: WooCommerce troubleshooting 101

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Rodolfo Melogli

Business Bloomer Founder

Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza. Follow @rmelogli

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