PrestaShop Smart Checkout plugin
Our PrestaShop Smart Checkout plugin allows you to accept payments via Viva Wallet Smart Checkout in your PrestaShop store.
- Overview
- Before you start
- Setup instructions
- Upgrading the plugin
- Installation Guide (PDF)
- PrestaShop Addons page
- Get Support
Overview
- Supported currencies: BGN (Bulgarian lev), CZK (Czech koruna), DKK (Danish krone), EUR (Euro), GBP (Pound sterling), HUF (Hungarian forint), PLN (Polish złoty), RON (Romanian leu) & SEK (Swedish krona)
- Version of PrestaShop required: 1.6.1 or later version
- Pricing: A surcharge of 0.35% is applied on top of the acquiring fee (for the acquiring fee please refer to the pricing page of our website)
This plugin uses our Smart Checkout solution. Please see our video overview of Smart Checkout’s main features and benefits:
Features
- Increased conversion: dynamically shows payment methods most likely to convert
- Customer preferences: remembers past payment behavior and preferences of the customer across merchants and countries
- Saved cards (customer-side): customers can pay using cards they have saved during past purchases, even from other merchants; thus, saved cards are available even to first-time customers. The customer does not need to create an account to save a card or re-use saved cards. New merchants take advantage of the pool of already saved cards across the Viva Wallet ecosystem
- Card tokenization (merchant-side): the merchant can save the card tokens of their customers in the merchant backend, and then use the saved card tokens when the merchant will redirect their customers to Smart Checkout again in the future. The saved card tokens provided by the merchant will then be presented to the customer on Smart Checkout to use and pay with
- Decline recovery: based on the customer’s past payment behavior, we prompt the customer to re-try a declined payment
- Installments1: the customer is able to pay via installments, where applicable (available in Greece only)
- Recurring payments: not supported yet
- Pre-authorizations: not supported yet
- Mobile optimized: offer an optimized browsing experience on any device (mobile, tablet, laptop, or desktop)
- Local languages & currencies: support for 17 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Greek, Czech, Portuguese, Swedish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, and Croatian), and 9 currencies
- Cross-border payments: Supported for all payment methods; you can accept payments from international customers for all payment methods.
- Cross-currency payments: Not yet supported; your customer can only pay you in the currency of your business account
- Compliance & security: full PCI & SCA/3DS support utilizing SCA exemptions, along with advanced fraud protection using Machine Learning algorithms
- Constantly self-updated: regular self-updates with no coding required from you, to a) offer new payment methods, b) offer new conversion-improving features, and c) comply with all the latest regulatory and security requirements
- Single account: No need to have a separate account for settlement
- Next day settlement: Money from customer payment is available in your Viva Wallet account the next day
- 0% Acceptance fee: Use your Viva Wallet Debit Mastercard to pay for your business expenses and lower your payment acceptance fees up to 0%
- Scalability: Through our reliable and state-of-the-art cloud-based infrastructure, you won’t miss a payment
1 Please note: If offering installments, the value provided by the merchant is not the number of installments the customer will select, and it is not mandatory for the customer to select installments at all. The process is as follows:
- The merchant indicates the maximum number of installments they wish to offer to the customer
- It is then up to the customer whether they pay with or without installments
- If the customer decides to pay with installments, they are able to select the number of installments (up to the maximum specified by the merchant)
Prestashop multistore feature is not compatible with our plugin. To run our plugin in different domains, you need to use different instances of Prestashop.
User experience
Screenshots
This plugin uses our Smart Checkout solution. Customers are redirected from your checkout page on your PrestaShop store to Viva Wallet Smart Checkout to pay, and after the customer pays, they are redirected automatically back to your PrestaShop store.
The below images show:
a) a demo checkout page on PrestaShop, and
b) a demo Viva Wallet Smart Checkout:
Video
The below video shows the user experience from your checkout page to Viva Wallet Smart Checkout.
Supported payment methods
Smart Checkout supports a wide variety of payment methods, including:
- Cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro, Bancontact, JCB, Discover & Diners Club)
- Digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal, PayPal Pay Later & Viva Wallet)
- Local payment methods (Bancontact QR, BitPay, BLIK, EPS, giropay, iDEAL, IRIS, Klarna, MULTIBANCO, MB WAY, P24, Payconiq, PayU, Sofort, tbi bank, Trustly & WeChat Pay)
- Direct Debit & other payment methods (SEPA Direct Debit, Pay By Bank, Cash (Viva Spot) & e-banking (ΔΙΑΣ/DIAS))
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Please see our Payment Methods page for further information on all of our payment methods. Note that in order to activate certain Payment Methods for the PrestaShop Smart Checkout plugin, you first need to activate them on your Viva Wallet account and for others you need to get in touch with us to activate them for you.
Cross-border payments: You can accept payments from international customers for all payment methods
Before you start
Before you attempt to install the Viva Wallet Smart Checkout module for PrestaShop, check that your hosting provider supports the following:
- PHP version 7.1 or later
- PHP extensions: cURL, JSON
- TLS 1.2 or later
Step 1: Create Viva Wallet account
If you do not already have an account with Viva Wallet please create an account.
- Sandbox/demo account for testing purpose.
- Production/live account for payments in the real world.
Step 2: Generate PrestaShop credentials
- Log in to Viva Wallet, demo or live , and select the required account.
Go to Settings > API Access and scroll down to the PrestaShop Credentials section:
To generate your PrestaShop account credentials, click on the Generate a pair of credentials button:
- Note these values for future use
- If you forget the Client secret, you can generate a new one clicking on the ‘Forget your secret? Generate a new one’ button
Step 3: Add your brand logo
We would highly recommend you show your company logo on your payment pages in order to increase customer recognition and trust, thus improving conversion. You can insert your company logo while creating the payment source as outlined above.
You can also change or update this logo at any time. To do this, please see our adding your brand logo tutorial for a step-by-step guide.
Step 4: Determine your payment methods
Determine which payment methods you want to offer to your customers.
Some of these payment methods are automatically activated for you by us (e.g. Apple Pay), other payment methods can only be activated by yourself (e.g. PayPal), for others you need to get in touch with us to activate them for you after a further review of your business.
Setup instructions
Adding the PrestaShop Smart Checkout plugin consists of the following steps.
Step 1: Add “Viva Wallet Smart Checkout” module to your PrestaShop store
Installation video
Please see our video on how to install the Viva Wallet Smart Checkout plugin in your PrestaShop store:
Installation instructions
Add the Viva Wallet Smart Checkout plugin to your PrestaShop store by following the below steps:
Log in to PrestaShop and navigate to Modules > Module Catalog:
Enter “Viva” in the search box and click on the search button:
The ‘Viva Wallet Smart Checkout’ module should appear:
Click on the Install button at the bottom of the Viva Wallet module:
Step 2: Set the “Viva Wallet Smart Checkout” module to the same currency as your Viva Wallet account
Navigate to Payment > Preferences to display the Preferences page:
From the Currency restrictions section, select for the “Viva Wallet Smart Checkout” module the same currency as your Viva Wallet account and then click Save:
Step 3: Configure the “Viva Wallet Smart Checkout” module
Navigate to Modules > Module Manager:
Enter “Viva” in the search box and click on the search button:
The ‘Viva Wallet Smart Checkout’ module should appear
Click on the Configure button:
Within the Settings panel, fill in the following fields:
Enable Demo Mode: Choose whether you are using a demo or live account
Client ID / Demo Client ID: Enter the Client ID you noted in Step 2: Generate PrestaShop credentials
Client Secret / Demo Client Secret: Enter the Client Secret you noted in Step 2: Generate PrestaShop credentials
Source Code List / Demo Source Code List: This will populate automatically when save the page. Normally, you will only have one Source for PrestaShop and so can ignore this field, but if you have multiple you can select one here
Title: Enter an optional title to display to customers on the Checkout screen
Description: Enter an optional description to display to customers on the Checkout screen
Order status after successful payment: Choose what to set your order status to, within PrestaShop, when the payment is successful
Installments: This is an optional field, only applicable to Greek merchants – you can set the maximum allowed payment card installments and their corresponding order values
When complete, click on the Save button at the bottom-right and the Viva Wallet payment option will be available in your checkout page
After the successful configuration, please verify the format of the following URLs (where {$environment} = demo or live):
Redirect URLs:
https://www.yourdomain.com/module/vivawalletsmartcheckout/success?environment={$environment}
https://www.yourdomain.com/module/vivawalletsmartcheckout/failure?environment={$environment}
Webhook URL:
https://www.yourdomain.com/module/vivawalletsmartcheckout/webhook?environment={$environment}
You do not need to set up a webhook for the PrestaShop Smart Checkout plugin, as this is automatically managed by the plugin
Upgrading the plugin
Keeping the plugin up to date help improve user experience with the addition of new features as well as improvement of existing features.
To find the existing version of the plugin, log in to your PrestaShop admin panel, go to module manager and search for VivaWallet. Notice the version of the plugin.
If upgrade button is visible, click it to upgrade the plugin.
Click Configure button to check and verify your plugin settings.
Installation Guide (PDF)
You can also view our Installation Guide in PDF format.
PrestaShop Addons page
You can also visit our PrestaShop Addons page: Viva Wallet Smart Checkout (prestashop.com)
Get Support
If you would like to integrate with Viva Wallet, or if you have any queries about our products and solutions, please see our Contact & Support page to see how we can help!