In the DACH market, Prepayment and Invoice remain among the most trusted and frequently used payment methods. Currently, merchants must manually install and manage individual plugins to offer these options. We believe that providing the most popular payment methods should be a native, out-of-the-box experience rather than an additional technical hurdle during setup.
Enabling a plugin-free future in the Shop
Our objective is to integrate Prepayment and Invoice directly into the PlentyONE core. This move is a key part of our strategy to support our modern Shop (PWA) solution. By moving these functionalities into the core, we eliminate the need for traditional plugin builds, making your Shop faster, more reliable, and significantly easier to maintain without external dependencies.
Enhancing your payment landscape with native features
- Zero installation effort: No need to browse the marketplace or manage complex plugin sets - these payment methods are available natively.
- Optimised for Shop (PWA): Designed specifically for our latest Shop technology to ensure a high-performance checkout without requiring plugin-based logic.
- DACH Market standard: Offer the payment options your customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland expect and trust most by default.
- Improved system stability: Native integrations reduce dependencies on external software layers, leading to faster build times and a more robust system environment.
- Unified configuration: Manage your payment settings in one central location without switching between different plugin interfaces.
Future outlook on payment automation
While these core versions focus on providing "ready-to-use" selection in the webshop, we are evaluating migration paths for merchants currently using the legacy plugin versions. Specialized features, such as automated bank synchronization via EBICS, will remain separate high-end tools to keep the core lean and fast.
Impact on your setup and performance
This update will primarily benefit new systems by making these payment methods available by default. Existing users, especially those planning to move from plentyShop LTS to our modern Shop (PWA), will benefit from a leaner system that no longer requires plugin builds for basic payment processing. We look forward to your feedback on how this native integration simplifies your daily business.