With the release of version 0.4, the Woo Deposits plugin now allows any WooCommerce shop owner to accept a deposit and bill for the remaining balance. Meanwhile, WooCommerce shoppers get an easy way to pay for follow up payments after they’ve committed to buying something.
Here’s how it works. First shoppers purchase a product. Based on the shop owners settings, the customers are either forced to pay only a deposit, or they are given the option to pay the full price or a deposit.

Next, shoppers pay for their layaway item through whatever payment gateways you provide for them.

Next customers get an invoice confirming their payment and telling them how much remains.

A simple click through on the pay now button takes customers to their follow payment. Of course they are not likely to pay their follow up payment invoice right away after paying their deposit, so they can either refer to this email later, log in to your site to make a payment or the shop owner can send an invoice anytime via WooCommerce’s native invoicing system.

Paying for the follow up payment is even easier than paying for the initial payment. From the My Account Page users can see all orders on which they have a balance.

Then a quick click through and all of your approved payment methods are available.

Woo Deposits also gives the shop owner control of payment statuses and adding payments that are received manually, either in cash or via check or any other non-automated method. Just go to the edit order screen and you will see the management interface right there.

Update now and start taking advantage of follow up payments via Woo Deposits. The feature is still in beta and there is much more to come, but we are looking forward to hearing your feedback and of course hearing about any bugs or improvements you would like to see fixed.