Payment Setup

Use the Payment Setup screen to select and configure the methods of payment that you want to accept in your store.

Payment Methods Accepted

Select the payment methods that your store is prepared to accept by clicking the check marks on or off. Your customers will be able to choose from these payment methods.

Credit Cards - Check the boxes for the credit cards that you will accept in your store. If you enable payment by credit card, you must select and configure a credit card processor on the lower half of the screen. Note that you should only check the boxes for the credit card brands that are supported by your credit card processor (for example, don’t check the box for American Express unless your credit card processor account allows you to accept American Express cards).

PayPal - If you enable PayPal payments, you must click the Configure button to enter information about your PayPal account.

WorldPay - If you enable WorldPay payments, you must click the Configure button to enter information about your WorldPay account.

Other Payment Methods -

Purchase Order - Customers can enter a purchase order number on the order form. ShopSite does not verify the P.O. number. You must establish accounts and verify transactions outside of ShopSite.
C.O.D. - If a customer selects Cash On Delivery payment, ShopSite does not request any payment information beyond the customer’s name and address. You must collect payment outside of ShopSite.
Check - When a customer selects to pay by check, the order form displays fields for the customer’s check routing number and account number. You must obtain the funds from that account outside of ShopSite.
Generic Payment Options - You can enable the Generic Payment Options to let customers use a method of payment that is not built-in to ShopSite. You configure the names and other fields for the Generic Payment Options in the Store Text > Checkout screen.

Credit Card Processing

If you have a merchant account with a payment processor for real-time credit card processing, select that processor from the list and click Configure Processor to configure your store to work with that processor. If you do not yet have a merchant account, select a payment processor and click Configure Processor, then click the link at the top of the screen to begin the application process.

If you do not plan to offer real-time credit card processing, leave the Processor set to manual. When you use the manual method, you can view or download your store's orders, then validate and process credit card orders off line. You must then go back to the Orders screen and mark the orders that you have shipped.

Remember, if you plan to accept credit cards, you must have a merchant account.

CVV2 Help

CVV stands for "Card Verification Value," and it is a 3- or 4-digit number that is printed on the back of Visa, MasterCard and Discover cards, usually in the signature box (it is on the front of American Express cards). You can configure any of the payment processors to ask for or require customers to provide the CVV2 number, which can enhance fraud protection, especially for "card not present" transactions. However, many customers won’t know what CVV2 is, so you can use the fields in this section to define a link to pop-up help on the order form.

CVV2 Help Text

Enter the text to be used as the underlined help link on the order form.

CVV2 Help URL

Enter the URL of the CVV2 help page that will pop up when customers click the link on the order form. The default URL points to a short explanation, but you can provide your own explanation by changing this URL.

Security Feature

Security images are a fraud protection tool used to ensure that the form is being filled out by a person, rather than a script that is testing or using stolen credit card information. You can configure the payment page to always use a security image, or to only add the security image after multiple failed attempts to submit a card, or to never use the security image.

ShopSite Help and Resource Center
February 13, 2004
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