Purpose

This page explains Rentiva's payment settings architecture and how the PaymentSettings class bridges to WooCommerce for managing payment gateways — rather than managing them directly.

💳 PaymentSettings Class

Rentiva follows a "Don't Reinvent the Wheel" principle for payment security and flexibility, delegating all payment processing to the WooCommerce layer. PaymentSettings is a control center that manages the health of this integration.

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🏗️ Architectural Strategy: Delegation

The Rentiva core does not process credit card or bank data directly. Instead:

1. Frontend: When the booking form is completed, a WooCommerce order is created.
2. PaymentSettings: This class checks whether WooCommerce is active and directs the administrator to the correct location in WC settings.
3. Legal Compliance: Payment data is stored to WC standards; Rentiva only references the transaction ID.

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🛡️ Integration Status Monitoring

The render_payment_section_description() method verifies in real time whether the system can accept payments:

// Is WooCommerce loaded?
if ( class_exists( 'WooCommerce' ) ) {
    // Quick link to WC Settings and Status Active badge
} else {
    // Critical warning prompting the admin to install WC
}

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🔗 Registration and Settings API

PaymentSettings is registered as a section on Rentiva's central settings page (SettingsCore::PAGE).

• Section ID: mhm_rentiva_general_payment_section
• Hook: admin_init (via the central SettingsManager).

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📋 Related Classes

Payment settings are not limited to this class alone; operational settings are distributed across the following classes:

Class	Responsibility
WooCommerceBridge	Product and order mappings.
EmailSettings	Configuration of post-payment confirmation emails.
MaintenanceSettings	Rate limiting and security rules on payment pages.

Section Summary

• Rentiva does not manage payment gateways; it uses WooCommerce as an engine.
• PaymentSettings visualizes the settings and connection status of this bridge.
• Gateway-specific settings (iyzico, Stripe, etc.) are always configured through WC.

Changelog

Date	Version	Note
23.04.2026	4.27.2	English translation added.
19.03.2026	4.21.2	Page rewritten from scratch to reflect the WooCommerce delegation strategy.