The Ecommerce Suite is a website add-on that features a collection of tools that allow your print buyers to purchase printing or other services directly through your website. This article will walk you through the necessary steps to set up your website to accept credit card payments with the Ecommerce Suite.

Establishing A Payment Gateway

In order to process credit card transactions on your site, you'll first need to subscribe with a "gateway" service. We partner with Authorize.net, a major presence in the online payment processing world since 1996. To sign up with Authorize.net, please visit Authorize.net or call 1.888.323.4289. For additional details, please view our Knowledgebase article, Getting Started with Authorize.net

Connecting Your Website To Your Payment Gateway Account

Now that you have a Gateway Account to process your credit card payments, it's time to configure your website to use it. That's easily done:

1. First, choose "My Website" from the Control Center's main menu
2. Then choose "E-Commerce Settings"
3. From the "E-Commerce Settings" menu, choose "Payment Gateways"
4. Choose "Authorize.net" from the "Gateway Service" pulldown menu (Other Payment Gateways)
5. Type your Authorize.net Login ID (provided by Authorize.net) in the "Authorize.net Login ID" field
6. Type your Transaction Key (provided by Authorize.net) in the "Transaction Key" field
7. Click the checkboxes next to the credit cards that you will accept
8. When finished, click the Save button in the upper right of the page

Setting Credit Card Payment options

Now that you have the ability to accept credit card payments, you need to define 2 things:

1. WHO can pay with a credit card on your site?
2. WHEN can/must they pay with a credit card?

You determine WHO can pay with a credit card by assigning the "Online Payment" option by assigning it in the default settings, or by assigning it to a company, branch or contact in the same way you assign any other payment option to a company, branch or contact.

Directly underneath the "Online Payment" option, you'll have the following 3 options for specifying WHEN a user can/must pay with a credit card:

1. Accept Online Payment for All Orders when an order total is available: With this option, the user will be able to pay for any order, at the time they place the order or afterwards, as long as there is a total price calculated.
2. Accept Online Payment for Completed Orders when an order total is available: With this option, the user will not be able to pay for an order until after it has been marked "Completed".
3. Require Online Payment for all orders when an order total is available: With this option, users are not able to submit an order without also paying for it with a credit card at that time.