Change ‘surcharge’ label at checkout

[Cy Messenger]

Hi there,

Is there a way to customise the ‘surcharge’ label in the checkout – using WooCommerce Stripe Surcharge plugin.

Cheers.

[Arnan de Gans]

There is no dashboard setting for it, but you can rephrase things using the Translation/POT file in the language folder.

[Cy Messenger]

Hi Arnan,

Thanks for coming back to me. I have tried updating the .pot file but nothing is reflected on the website. I notice that the language strings are referring to the paypal file, this is the string that I am trying to update.

#: woocommerce-paypal-surcharge.php:100
msgid "Surcharge"
msgstr ""

I have changed the filename to woocommerce-stripe-surcharge.php, the php line to 101 and updated the
string, but it doesn’t seem to work.

#: woocommerce-stripe-surcharge.php:101
msgid "Processing  fee"
msgstr ""

Are you able to elaborate on how I can achieve this?

Thank you in advance.

[Arnan de Gans]

A pot file is a source/base file for creating a translation. You’ll also see a file with nl_NL in the name, that’s the dutch translation.

With a program like Poedit you can open and start a new translation. The translated phrases are of your choosing. So you can ‘cheat’ a little by rephrasing things to your liking in a english to english translation.

[Cy Messenger]

Hi Arnan,

Thanks for that. I couldn’t get it working though, even using the Loco Translate plugin.

Cheers,

[Arnan de Gans]

Hmm, maybe I’ll add a option to change the string in a future version.

[Cy Messenger]

That would be awesome!

[Arnan de Gans]

In the next version, almost ready, the label for ‘Surcharge’ will be configurable.
Keep an eye out for that this or next week.

[Joe Mahony]

Hi. I’m using the new version and setting the label as “Surcharge”, but the label in the checkout is whatever number I’m using for the percentage. E.g. I chose 3% as the surcharge amount and the checkout label says 3 instead of what I put in the label field.

I’m using Stripe Credit Card payment.

[Arnan de Gans]

Hi Joe, it looks like the amount is used as the label.
I’ll update it later today. Thanks for your report 🥳