Joomla! fans it’s time to get yourself updated to the latest version of VirtueMart and be able to accept payments via the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway.
What is VirtueMart?
“With its fully-featured eCommerce engine, VirtueMart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights. Despite being Open Source Software it powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security you expect from professional Software.
VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop Solution for Joomla! (more than 2.5 Million Downloads so far).
And the Best: it’s free! You can download, use and modify it without any Restrictions (License: GNU/GPL) – just as Joomla!.” – VirtueMart
Navigate to your “Extension Manager” in your Joomla! Administration Panel and upload and install the module.virtuemart2.zip package:
Navigate to your “Plug-ins Manager” in your Joomla! Administration Panel and enable the “VM – Payment, Merchant Warrior” plugin:
Navigate to your VirtueMart 2 store Administration Panel and create a new “Payment Method” that uses the “VM – Payment, Merchant Warrior” payment method:
Configure the Merchant Warrior payment method with your merchant settings:
There is no better way to start this post than by thanking our merchants for their patience while we prepared this module. We are excited to offer our new PrestaShop module to the public and hope that the PrestaShop team will shortly have it listed in their addons shop for FREE.
“PrestaShop consists of 100 developers, designers, and professional e-commerce addicts. Headquartered in Paris and Miami, we are a leader in everything e-commerce and are committed to staying free and Open-source. As most developers know, inspiration begins with your customers. Each merchant and community member carries out projects large and small that contribute to not only their personal growth, but also the growth of PrestaShop. We continue to work hand-in-hand with the community and are passionate about creating features, modules, and templates according to their needs. The success of our software is thanks to countless hours by numerous contributors from around the world. We want to make sure every merchant is successful and in the process we ensure it is easy to sell online by providing over 275 features and an overall software that can be customized to each business’ needs.” –PrestaShop
Why choose PrestaShop?
Winner of the 2011 Open-source Business Application award
Over 100,000 stores
300,000 active community members and growing!
#1 Open-source shopping cart
Available in 41 languages
Strong global presence with stores in over 150 countries
Once you have completed the installation of your PrestaShop cart adding the Merchant Warrior module to your installation is extremely simple. Unzip the contents of the zip file into the ‘modules’ directory of your PrestaShop directory and configure the options in your PrestaShop back office as seen in the screenshots below:
It is always a nice feeling to release a new payment solution to the public that we have had in beta for a few months. The MW Phone Payments will enable you to accept credit card payments from your customers via phone. It is as simple as placing a biller id and reference number (or invoice number) on a bill and/or letter accompanied by a telephone number that your customer should call to pay their bill.
Merchant Warrior grants you FREE access to 1300 321 PAY and 1800 321 PAY phone words or alternatively you can provide your own 13, 1300 or 1800 number.
As with many other IVR systems you will NOT be required to wait for an emailed report of all phone payments before updating your billing system. The MW Phone Payments platform issues real-time notifications when transactions are processed and in doing so will allow you to update your billing system the second a transaction is processed.
Accept Token Payments via IVR
The most exciting part of our announcement today is that our IVR platform also enables you to accept Token Payments from your customers. Your customers will have a choice of entering their credit card details or a Token ID to pay a phone bill. This feature significantly reduces the time that your customer has to spend keying in numbers into their phone and provides a PCI DSS compliant solution for accepting payments via telephone.
Phone Payment Advantages
Automate acceptance of customer over the phone (MOTO) payments
Receive notifications in real-time from MW when a transaction has been processed
Extra hardware and/or software is not required
Multiple routing options for enterprise clients (route to number, route to IP etc)
IVR prompts can be customized
Accept both credit card and token id’s from customers
Validates CVV2
How does it work?
It’s time for a demonstration!
You can trial a simple credit card phone payment by following the instructions below:
To trial the Phone Payments service from your phone please dial: (07) 3166 5439 (Australia) or +61 7 3166 5439 (International).
If you would like a demonstration of our premium IVR features such as Tokenization, or are looking to learn more about the MW Phone Payments platform, please contact us.
Thanks to the efforts of maxut, customers using the nopCommerce e-commerce solution can now accept payments with Merchant Warrior.
“nopCommerce is new but very popular open source e-commerce solution. nopCommerce is available for free. A solution with comprehensive features that is easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce expert. It’s a secure, scalable and extendable e-commerce platform.” – nopCommerce
nopCommerce boasts a mass number of features within an open source platform that is PCI DSS compliant.
The nopCommerce module for Merchant Warrior is available here. The author mentions that only AUD and NZD are supported, however, if specified during your application process we can enable multiple currencies at your request.
It has definitely been a long time coming and an integration that has been requested by so many Australian merchants. Cart66 is an eCommerce plugin for the popular blogging software wordpress that enables merchants to “sell electronics, digital downloads, videos, music, web hosting, legal services, collect membership fees, and more.” – Cart66
Over the past few months we have had an overwhelming number of requests to have the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway integrated with the Cart66 plugin. The lack of support for an Australian payment processing option made the extremely flexible and popular Cart66 plugin unusable for many Australian merchants.
We feel extremely lucky to have been contacted by Dante Chichizola @dchichizola a senior web developer from Macintype Design who registered his interest in integrating the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway into the Cart66 plugin.
Thanks to the efforts of Dante an Australian payment option finally exists for the Cart66 plugin! The plugin can be found at the Merchant Warrior Developer Zone or by clicking here.
We will be contacting the great team at Cart66 to have the plugin available with the professional version of the plugin. We understand they are extremely busy but do hope we manage to get this merged into their development cycle in time for their next release.
“CS-Cart is the best shopping cart solution for building an ecommerce website of any size: from a small web store to a virtual shopping mall. A ready storefront, support for many payment and shipping options, full inventory control, unlimited products, promotional tools, and other ecommerce software features out-of-the-box.” – CS-Cart
We have had a number of merchants request the integration of our Payment Gateway with CS-Cart and we are happy that CS-Cart has decided to include us in their latest release.
A full list of feature changes that are available in CS-Cart v2.2.1 are available here and here.
Thanks to the efforts of Sam Georges from Frag Networks the Merchant Warrior payment gateway is now supported in what is known as one of the most flexible shopping carts available – LemonStand.
The Merchant Warrior payment module is available to developers free of charge from the LemonStand market place which is a new addition to the LemonStand website that allows developers to contribute addons which can enable additional functionality to the base LemonStand shopping cart.
Direct link to Merchant Warrior Payment Module for LemonStand can be found by clicking here.
What is LemonStand?
The LemonStand shopping cart is best described by a phrase which can be found on the LemonStand website:
The LemonStand shopping cart boasts a beautiful interface and flexible system which enables developers to easily implement custom shopping cart requirements.
Features
Powerful Reporting
Safe and Secure
Content Management
Designer Friendly
Developer Friendly
Marketing
There are several blog posts which could be written to describe the numerous features that the LemonStand shopping cart supports – please see LemonStand Feature List
Whether you are currently searching the market for the best shopping cart for your website or looking for a new shopping cart due to the lack of features in your current online store, LemonStand is an eCommerce platform that you will most definitely want to add to the list of products that you evaluate.
We know that it has been a long time coming but we have finally got there. Our merchants have been asking us for an integration module into the one of the world’s most popular open source eCommerce stores – Magento and finally they have it.
What is Magento?
“Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface contains powerful marketing, merchandising and content management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.” – Magento
Magento & MW – How?
As those of you who have integrated with Merchant Warrior in the past will already know – we like to keep it simple. The Merchant Warrior Developer Zone has been updated to include a Magento 1.5+ module that includes instructions on how to install the module and enable your Magento shopping cart to accept online payments via the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway.
Merchant Warrior & Magento are a powerful combination that merchants should consider, whether they be searching the market for the right shopping cart or looking to take their current eCommerce platform to the next level.
It’s a question that we’ve been getting asked quite frequently by new merchants or those that are curious about the product. It is a very simple concept and exists for the sole purpose of removing the requirement of storing any credit card data on the merchant’s servers. Most merchants are aware of the PCI DSS which states that:
“PCI DSS requirements are applicable if a Primary Account Number (PAN) is stored, processed, or transmitted. If PAN is not stored, processed, or transmitted, PCI DSS requirements do not apply.”
The idea behind the Token Payments application is that a merchant submits a credit card number to the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway for storage. We work with our merchants to ensure that the transmission of this data is secure and then encrypt the credit card information and store it. A Token/ID is assigned to the specific credit card number and this Token/ID is transmitted securely to the merchant for future processing.
In short – merchants substitute all credit card data storage for Token/IDs. This means that a merchant’s database will contain a Token/ID for each credit card that they plan on billing in the future. For all future transactions for a specific credit card, the merchant will simply send a Token/ID to the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway and we will handle the processing of the payment.
Some of you may be wondering why or when storage of credit card information would be necessary, so let’s discuss that.
Why Token Payments?
Any business that operates with a recurring billing model will know that storage of credit card information is extremely important. In order to bill a customer more than once (automatically) you will need to know their credit card details. Quite a few businesses will utilize the Recurring Payments features that come bundled with their Payment Gateway, however, this is only useful for merchants that plan on billing customers a static amount over a period of time. What happens if you’re billing amount changes frequently? What happens if YOU want to control when your billing takes place? These are situations where Token Payments come in handy. One of the reasons why so many merchants choose to implement Token Payments into their applications is due to the ability to to remain PCI DSS Compliant, whilst not having to worry about storing any customer credit card information, and still having access to your customer’s details when the time comes to bill them.
This is not the only reason why merchants look into Token Payments. Customer loyalty is another very important aspect of business that can be increased by implementing Token Payments into an application. How many of you hate having to enter in your credit card number every time you wish to purchase an item? If you sign up with a particular store and they already have your credit card number on file are you not more inclined to use them again for future purchases?
Apple is a perfect example of how Token Payments can be used to increase customer loyalty. After your first purchase with Apple your credit card is stored against your account and all future purchases only require you to enter your CSC (Card Security Code). By implementing Token Payments into your applications you are able to take advantage of this feature.
Token Payments may not be a requirement for every online business, but they should be considered by merchants that require a way to control their own recurring billing and/or need to store credit card information securely, whilst still remaining PCI DSS Compliant.
What better way to begin a new week than to release a restructured pricing model. We’ve been working hard to implement a pricing model which only charges our clients for the products and services which they utilise.
Why?
I believe it’s a common misconception that when a merchant signs up for a Payment Gateway that they will require all of the services that a gateway offers. A prime example is as follows:
Merchant Warrior provides the following services to its clients:
Batch Payments
Direct API Integration
Hosted Payments
Recurring Payments
MOTO Payments
How many merchants will actually take advantage of all these services? If you’re one of these merchants we’d love to hear from you! The reality of the matter is that a client that chooses to integrate directly through an API will most definitely not be requiring a Hosted Payment Page let alone any of the other services offered.
It’s for this reason that we made the decision to offer specialised pricing for each of our services. If Banks are able to offer this type of pricing why shouldn’t a Payment Gateway?
With our ability to offer customised solutions bundled with specific product pricing, we believe that our new pricing model will help benefit merchants in a time where minimising expense is essential.
To review our new pricing structure please visit our Pricing Page.