Title: Custom Checkout Verification
Last modified: July 20, 2020

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# Custom Checkout Verification

 *  Resolved [shakazulu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shakazulu1/)
 * (@shakazulu1)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-checkout-verification/)
 * We need to be able to run an API call to perform an account verification to an
   external system before allowing the purchase of certain products. i.e. we have
   to perform a check against an external database and if the return value is positive,
   we can allow the customer to checkout. How can we do this? Is there any way to
   easily intercept the checkout process to perform these checks?

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 *  Plugin Support [slash1andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slash1andy/)
 * (@slash1andy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-checkout-verification/#post-13147305)
 * Hey there!
 * This sounds like something you should likely do on registration, where it checks
   with your other system, and then using the info there, either shows or hides 
   the products.
 * Of course, this is all completely custom to your site, so you would want to speak
   to your developer for more info.
 * Hopefully that helps! Have a great one!
 *  Thread Starter [shakazulu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shakazulu1/)
 * (@shakazulu1)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-checkout-verification/#post-13148973)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. How would we go about hiding or displaying products
   based on this? We could probably run the check monthly and update a custom field,
   but can we show or hide a certain product category based on custom fields?
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [shakazulu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shakazulu1/).

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 * Last reply from: [shakazulu1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shakazulu1/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-checkout-verification/#post-13148973)
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