Troubleshooting: No Payment Gateways Showing at Checkout

If the payment section at checkout is completely empty and customers can't place an order, here's how to diagnose and fix it.

1. Check your fallback setting

The most common cause is the fallback behavior being set to Show no payment methods. If no rule matches the cart contents, the plugin deliberately hides all gateways.

• Go to WooCommerce → Settings → Payment Gateways Per Product.
• Check the Fallback Behavior setting.
• Temporarily switch it to Show default WooCommerce gateways and test checkout again.

If gateways appear after this change, the problem is that one or more products in the cart don't have a matching rule. Assign rules to those products (or their categories/tags) and then switch the fallback back if needed.

2. Check the mixed cart intersection

If your cart has multiple products, their gateway rules may intersect to zero. Review each product's allowed gateways and look for a common gateway that satisfies all of them. See How Mixed Cart Resolution Works for details.

3. Check that your WooCommerce gateways are enabled

Even if the plugin is configured correctly, if the underlying WooCommerce payment gateway is disabled under WooCommerce → Settings → Payments, it won't appear. Make sure the gateways you're assigning in the plugin rules are actually toggled on.

4. Clear your cache

Caching plugins (WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, etc.) and CDN-level caching can serve a stale checkout page that doesn't reflect your current plugin configuration. Clear all caches and test in an incognito window.

5. Check for plugin conflicts

Other checkout plugins, payment gateway plugins, or optimization plugins may interfere. Temporarily disable non-essential plugins (especially other checkout customizers) and test again. If the problem disappears, re-enable plugins one at a time to identify the conflict.