Vipps for WooCommerce POS

Vipps is the most-used payment app in Norway, with over 4 million users — roughly 75% of the adult population. It started as a peer-to-peer payment app from DNB (Norway's largest bank) in 2015 and is now used for everything from splitting dinner to paying rent to checking out at retail. For a Norwegian WooCommerce merchant, offering Vipps at the counter is not optional — it's the expected default.

The official Vipps MobilePay for WooCommerce plugin handles both Vipps (Norway) and MobilePay (Denmark/Finland) and is maintained by Vipps MobilePay itself. From the Oliver register, the cashier picks Vipps; Oliver opens the Vipps hosted approval page in the in-POS browser view; the customer either scans the QR with their Vipps app or enters their phone number; they approve on their phone with biometric; Oliver writes the WooCommerce order.

The whole thing takes 8-12 seconds. No card, no terminal, no signature, no PIN-pad — just the customer's phone and a QR code.

The Vipps WooCommerce plugin supports both online checkout and Vipps's "at the counter" mode (Vipps på stedet). Oliver POS can use either — the in-POS browser view opens whichever flow the merchant has configured. For most retail use cases, the QR-code at-the-counter mode is the fastest, but for high-ticket sales the online Vipps Checkout is also a clean option.

If you sell to Norwegian consumers at a brick-and-mortar shop, Vipps at the Oliver POS is essentially mandatory. There's no Norwegian retail customer base that doesn't expect Vipps as an option. Pair it with a card-gateway fallback (Stripe Checkout, Nets Easy, or Bambora) for tourists.