Payment methods
This section describes the management interface of payment methods.
Overview
- You can add as many payment methods as you want.
- All valid payment methods are displayed for selection to the shop customer.
- A payment method is valid if all criteria of the shipping method are true.
- Payment methods can have many prices which are dependent of criteria. The
first price which is valid (all criteria are true) is the current price for
the the payment method. If no price is valid the default price is taken
(from data tab).
Data
- Name
- The name of the payment method, which is displayed to the shop
customer (e.g. on the cart and the checkout page).
- Description
- A short description of the payment method, which is displayed to the
customer (e.g. on the checkout page).
- Note
- A note of the payment method, which is displayed on the confirmation
mail after the shop customer has been checked out.
- Priority
- The first valid shipping method with the highest priority (smaller
number) method is displayed to the customer as default (if she hasn’t
selected one explicitly).
- Image
- An image for the payment method, which is displayed to the shop
customer.
- Tax
- The included tax of the payment method’s price
- Price
- The default price of the payment method. This can be overwritten
within the price tab (see below).
- Module
- The dotted name of the external package which processes the payment
(this is for developers only).
- Type
The type of the payment method. Dependent on that additional fields
for input (within the checkout process) will be displayed. There are
three types at the moment:
- Plain
No additional fields are displayed.
- Bank
Fields for a bank account are displayed.
- Credit Card
Fields for a credit card are displayed.
Criteria
Optional you can add some criteria to the payment method. Only when all
criteria are true the payment method is displayed to the shop customer. See
Criteria for more.
To add criterion proceed as following:
- Click on the Add criteria-button (adds a criterion on first position) or
on the plus button beside a criterion (adds a criterion below)
- Select the criteria type you want, e.g. Weight (this is the weight of
all cart items).
- Select the operator, e.g. Less than equal to.
- Enter the value, e.g. 50.
- Altogether this means the payment method is valid if the weight of all
cart items is less than or equal to 50 units.
- You can add as many criteria you want.
- Click on Save criteria.
To update criteria proceed as following:
- Change the values of the criteria to your needs.
- Click on Save criteria
To delete a criterion proceed as following:
- Click on the minus button beside the criterion.
- Click on Save criteria.
Prices
Optionally payment methods can have different prices based on criteria. If
no prices are given within the prices tab, the default price of the data tab
is taken.
To add a price proceed as following:
- To manage prices go to the Prices tab.
- To add a new price enter the value into the text field and click Add
price.
- To add/edit criteria for that price click on Edit criteria link. A popup
will open.
- Click on Add criteria and change the criteria type, the operator and
the value to your needs.
To update/delete a price proceed as following:
- To update the prices change the priority and/or the value of the price and
click on Update prices.
- To delete the prices select the checkboxes of the prices you want delete and
click on Delete prices.
