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Stripe SCA

Conect your Golfmanager to Stripe

Updated over a year ago

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Introduction

Stripe is an online payment gateway, the latest version is Stripe SCA

Installing

  1. Contact Golfmanager's Team to get the plugin.

  2. Open an account on Stripe's platform.

  3. Fill in the publishable and secret keys.

  4. Activate the production mode.

  5. Check the online payment method.

  6. Test it.

Advantages:

  • Very good integration with the online shop cart.

  • Very robust and stable system.

Disavantadges:

  • The commissions are a little high.

Creating a Stripe account

Follow the instructions in order to create a Stripe account:

  1. Access Stripe web page https://stripe.com/gb and create your account, you can find Stripe support here https://support.stripe.com/.

  2. Click on the button "Start now" or on the button "Sign in" on the left upper corner, and then click on "Sign Up".

  3. Fill in with your data and then click "Create account".

  4. Check the e-mail account that was used on nr 3, you will receive a confirmation e-mail, follow the instructions on the e-mail.

  5. You will be redirected to the Stripe.

  6. If you are going to work with than 1 account, it is recommended to give a name to the account.

  7. To activate the account it is mandatory to fill out the account application.

The data are the following:

  • Country

  • Product:

    • Web

    • Company description

  • Business Identification:

    • Business name

    • Business tax ID

    • Business address

  • Personal Data:

    • Name

    • Birth Date

    • Vat number

    • Address

  • Information that appears on your customers' credit card statements:

    • Description

    • Phone number

  • Bank details to receive payments:

    • Currency

    • Country

    • IBAN

  • Choice of two-step authentication (for added security) between:

    • Text message

    • Google Authenticator

  • Shortly after [Send request] your account will be activated and ready to be connected to the plugin that handles payments (WooCommerce, EDD, etc.).

How to fill in the publishable and secret keys on the system

Once you have created your account on the Stripe SCA, you will need the Test Key and Real Key to copy and paste into Golfmanager. To get the keys, follow the steps below:

  1. Test Keys:

    1. The Public test key: pk_test_qX2j4C29O1YmaTcgdS2VZFKC

    2. The Secret test key: sk_test_N7PaurXRN4gTN9QMxQQ9xHUvq

  2. To get the Real Publishable Key go to:

    • Stripe website

    • Select the Developers button

    • API Keys tab

    • Publishable Key

    • Copy the token and paste it on your Golfmanager.

  3. To get the Real Secret Key go to:

    • Stripe website

    • Select the Developers button

    • API Keys tab

    • Click on create secret key

    • Copy the token and paste it on your Golfmanager.

Activating production mode

  1. Activate the Production mode option if you want the gateway to be in production, and leave it unactivated if you want to have it in test mode. Operations in test mode will not be charged to the customer's account.

  2. Save card automatically: when this field is selected the customer card will be saved on is profile and the data will be available for future online bookings.

  3. Refund money when a sale is cancelled if this field is activated the customer will be able to cancel the booking online and the get is money back.

How to set stripe as the online payment method

Section: Settings Menu > Invoicing > Payment methods

Go to the payment methods settings and set Stripe SCA as your only online payment method:

  1. Select the ID of the Stripe SCA payment method

  2. Select Active and Available online

  3. Save

  4. Make a test to check that everything is correctly configured

  5. Book on the online bookings

  6. Pay your booking. Card number in test mode: 4242 4242 4242 4242 4242 4242 4242 Date: 04/24 CVV:242

NOTE: If you have the old version of Stripe, deactivate and delete this payment method.

Checking the records of stripe movements

Section: Settings > Stripe SCA > Records

In this list you can find the movements that have been made through Stripe SCA.

  • In the column Success:

    • YES: you can check if a payment has been processed correctly.

    • (NO): if not:

      • go to the Error column to see the error.

      • If you have any questions about the error, please contact Stripe Customer Service.

Partial refund of a stripe transaction

This is the only payment gateway that allows the partial reversal of an online payment.

There are several situations you should be aware of:

  • the customer has NOT logged into the system when booking and paying online:

    • From the purchase confirmation email that the customer receives:

      • Select the Cancel button (if you have it configured in the template).

      • And access the online shopping cart to cancel the total or partial reservation.

  • the customer HAS logged into the system when booking and paying online:

    • the Booking Type is configured to select a customer from your database:

      • From the purchase confirmation email received by that customer:

        • Select the Cancel button (if you have it configured in the template).

        • And access the online shopping cart to cancel the total or partial reservation.

      • The logged in customer who has made the booking and paid:

        • You can cancel only your booking or the total booking

        • If you first cancel only your booking:

          • then you will not be able to cancel the total booking

          • and each customer will have to cancel his booking

      • All other customers belonging to that booking:

        • You can only cancel your own booking

        • You cannot cancel another customer's booking

        • You will not be able to cancel the total booking

    • the Booking Type is configured to put a free text in the customer's name box:

      • From the purchase confirmation email that customer receives:

        • Select the Cancel button (if you have it configured in the template).

        • And access the online shopping cart to cancel the total or partial reservation.

      • The logged in customer who has made the booking and paid:

        • You can cancel only your booking or the total booking

        • If you first cancel only your booking:

        • then you won't be able to cancel the total booking

        • and each customer will have to cancel his booking

For more information, click here.

Manual refund of a stripe transaction

Section: Main Menu > POS

When you don't have automatic refunds activated you will have to refund the payment manually:

  1. Access your Stripe account

  2. Go to https://dashboard.stripe.com/payments and follow the steps to refund the sale

  3. You can check the ID of the on Settings > Stripe > Records

Message: Invalid API Key provided

This message appears when the API Key from your payment gateway is wrong. You will have to repeat the process of geting the API Keys from your Stripe account.

Stripe Terminal

Stripe has an an automated payment terminal that can be connected to the POS.

To have more information and ask for the Stripe Terminal:

  1. Go to your Stripe account / Dashboard / Payments / Readers / Locations.

  2. Install the Stripe PDQ plugin in Golfmanager.

  3. Countries where Stripe Terminal is available:

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