Paysera
You can connect Paysera to your Ecwid store to accept online payments from Paysera accounts, by Visa, MasterCard, Maestro credit cards or via international transfers. Paysera operates in 184 countries, but it is most used in the Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) where Paysera has direct connections and agreements with each bank including SEB, Swedbank, Nordea and Danskebank.
Set up your Paysera account
To accept payments via Paysera in your Ecwid store, you need to create a payment collection project in your Paysera account, copy the generated project data and add it to your store settings.
Step 1 - Create a payment collection project at Paysera
To create a payment collection project:
- Log into your Paysera account. If you do not have an account with them yet, sign up for it.
- Go to Settings → Profile Settings.
- Click Change next to Service Management.
- Click Order next to the Online payment collection via e-banking and other systems service.
- Go to Project and Activities → My Projects.
- Click Add new project.
- Provide all the necessary information to create a project:
Project URL address - enter the web address https://paysera.ecwid-labs.com as your project URL.
Project description - choose the categories for your business and fill in other fields for a new project creation, etc.
You can edit this information anytime later.
- Сonfirm your project by verifying the ownership of your website. For this, copy a meta tag shown below on the project page:
Paste the copied tag in the <head></head> area of your site’s source code. Then return to your Paysera account and click the Check button below the tag.
- Click the Save project button in the right corner below.
Paysera will review your project within one day after its submission.
Step 2 - Choose Paysera payment options
Select what payment options you’d like to offer to buyers from different countries:
- Open your Paysera account → Project and Activities → My Projects.
- Go to the project details, and choose the Payment collection service settings option from the Project Settings dropdown.
- Scroll down to the Payment methods you would like to accept section.
- Click on a country name and pick the payment options that you want to offer to buyers from this country:
- Save the changes.
Step 3 - Get your project data
Now that your project is created, a unique project ID and a project password have been generated for it. Copy this data to use it later for your store connection.
To get your project data:
- Open your Paysera account → Project and Activities → My Projects.
- Copy your project ID (project number/projectid) - you will need it later.
- From the Project settings dropdown select the General project settings option:
- Scroll to the Data signing section and copy your project password.
Set up Paysera in your store
To add Paysera payment method in your Ecwid store:
- Log into Ecwid control panel → Payments.
- Scroll down to Other ways to get paid and select Paysera payment method.
- Click the Paysera payment - Settings link.
- Enter your project ID and project password in the respective Account settings fields (you’ve copied their values earlier from your Paysera account):
The entered values will be autosaved.
Make sure that this payment method is enabled to offer it to your customers at checkout:
That’s it. Now you can place a few test orders to check the result and submit your project for Paysera review.
Test how it works
Before submitting your project to Paysera, run a few tests to check how the connection works. For this you should enable test modes in your Ecwid store and Paysera account.
To enable test mode for Paysera in Ecwid:
- Go to Ecwid control panel → Payments → Paysera Account Settings.
- Click on Advanced settings.
- Choose the Enable Test mode option.
To enable test mode for your project in Paysera:
- Go to Paysera account → Projects and Activities → My Projects.
- From the Project Settings dropdown select the Payment Collection Service Settings option.
- Check the Allow Test Payments option.
- Save the changes.
Place a few orders using the Paysera payment method in your store.
Submit your project for review
When you are ready to launch sales, submit your project for Paysera review: open your Paysera account → Project and Activities → My Projects and click the Submit for review button next to your project. Paysera will verify it within one day after the project submission.
That’s it. Now your customers can pay via Paysera in your store. Once they choose this payment method at checkout, they will be redirected to Paysera site where they see all the payment options that you’ve enabled in your Paysera account and will be able to choose the one they prefer.