5th Avenue facilitates several methods of payment and fits several different environments. To accept credit card payment, you will need to have either an SSL certificate and site to collect credit card information or a payment processing site that will collect the card information for you. Once credit card information is collected, it is then up to the merchant to process this information or, send it on to a payment processor.
Configuring Payment Methods: Payment methods are configured using the payment database wizard. If no payment method is configured, and the customer is presented with the default payment link, the offline payment method will be utilized.
- You should first be familiar with your SSL capabilities. If you have no SSL capability, you will need to indicate this when asked. The script will automatically narrow your payment collection choices in the following screen.
- Give this payment method a short name to identify it.
- Specify whether this will be the only payment method, or the default payment method when offering more than one. This sets the system variable, "payment_page_URL", which identifies the default template to point to for payment. It also sets the "default_payment_method" variable which tells the script what type of processing to follow. Of course, these variables do not have to be used and can't be used when offering a choice of payment methods.
- On the next screen, if you indicated you do not have SSL capabilities, you will be given only two choices of payment collection. If you indicated you have SSL capabilities, you will be given four choices. Pick the one that best describes your payment collection for this method.
- If you indicated you have SSL capabilities, you will need to enter the SSL url to the store pages, example: https://mydomain.com/store_pages/ and the SSL url to the admin pages. The later will be used when collecting inhouse credit card data only.
- The next step will depend on your selection for payment collection.
- If you selected offline payment collection, you have completed your payment configuration.
- If you selected to utilize a payment processor, you will be presented with a choice of processors and then a screen to configure the necessary parameters based on processor choice. Your choice of processor methods will depend on whether you have the CURL module enabled and your SSL capability.
- If you indicated that you will be collecting credit card information either to process inhouse or to send on to a processor, you will need to select the credit cards you will be accepting and whether to require the card code or not.
- Detailed information is offered about each payment method in the related links below.
Credit Card Types: If you will be collecting credit card information on your SSL site, you will be asked what credit card types you will be accepting. This entry serves two purposes. It is used to populate a dropdown list using the shortcut, {{cc_dropdown}} and it supplies the validation script with a set of accepted types. The selected value passed in this dropdown is essential in checking the validity of the credit card number input. The supported types and their corresponding codes are: MC (MasterCard), VISA, AMEX, DINER (Diner's Club), DISC (Discover), and JCB.
You can enter other card types in, but the script will perform only the mod-11 check and not do any extended checking on the number format.
Card Code: You can require the input of the card code (or CVVC, CVVC2). The script will check to see if this field is present.
SSL considerations: Your SSL site will need to access the store components (scripts, data, and templates). If it is accessed with a different URL or sub-domain, you will need to set the cookie domain in system settings to
.domain.com (where domain represents your domain). At this time, 5th Avenue does not support a remote SSL site, other than 3rd party credit card processors.
Multiple Payment method choices: 5th Avenue also provides a way to offer a choice of payment options for the customer. For example, a site can provide a link to pay by Paypal, or Authorizenet, or to simply choose pay by phone or email.
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