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Overview

The customiser allows you to fully personalise your Blink Page(s) and your Merchant Shop for each MID. Changes in your Merchant Shop affect Requested Payments (PayLinks) and the “Take a Payment” page (card types and currencies)

Both cosmetic changes and functional settings can be edited using the customiser

Overview

The Customiser is a helpful tool that enables you to customise your Blink page(s) and Merchant shop for each MID in accordance with your preferences. Whenever you make any changes to your Merchant shop, it will affect Requested payments (Payment links) and the Take a payment page, including card types and currencies. You can edit both the cosmetic changes and functional settings using the Customiser.

Customiser

Table of Contents

Navigation

Go to Customer Centre then CustomiserAccess the Customiser in the Customer centre. Alternatively, you can find this page by selecting edit click "edit" on the My Blink Pages pages page for the Blink Page that you wish to edit. desired Blink page.

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Blink page vs. merchant shop

How does it work?

Visual

Customisation

customisation

We have

divided

split the

customiser

customisation page into

general

settings for the merchant shop (Individual MID) and

settings for

individual Blink

Pages.
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titleBlink Page VS Merchant Shop
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pages.

Merchant shop settings

Any update within the merchant shop changes made to these settings will apply to any payment taken with this Merchant Shopall payments made in this shop, including payment methods and currencies, as well as visual customisations like the logo and footer on the receipt.

Info

Each A Merchant Shop is a MID; the changes shop is the MID (e.g. 123456 - My shop) that you select when processing a payment. Any changes made to this will be reflected on the Blink Page, Request a Paymentpayment, Take a Payment payment and Batch Paymentspayments.

Logo

To add your company's logo to your shop,

select

start by selecting the relevant shop

and

. Then, click on the "Add

Logo

logo" icon.

You will then be prompted

This will prompt you to upload an image.

Once

After the image is uploaded, click on Update

. This will

to add the

image

logo across the payment options within

this

the Merchant

Shop

shop.

The logo

You can

be

use any image type

(

such as PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF

)

and any size you want. However,

though

we recommend keeping it to 200px x 200px for the best results.

Note

If you do not upload a logo,

this

Blink Shop will

show

use the default portal logo

by default (See Settings), which can

specified in settings. However, this may cause pixelation issues if the

portal

logo is too small.

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Background

Colour

colour

The Change ColourColor icon gives allows you the option to change modify the background colour of your Blink Shop. Click on the icon , and choose a colour color from the options providedavailable. You can choose either select a colour color or manually enter the RGB values manually.

Payment settings

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Receipt Settings

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Settings (Merchant

Shop

shop)

Within

On the settings page, you

can select the following options: Currencies you would like to accept within your shop

will find two areas: payment settings and receipt settings.

Under the payment settings tab, you can change various payment settings, such as the currencies your shop accepts (if applicable).

Info

When you

set up

create a merchant account with us,

you are asked in which

we will ask you to select the currencies you

would like

want to process transactions. You can

request additional currencies to be added with Support. You can then toggle the currencies ON and OFF per merchant shop.The Card Types you want to accept (you can request additional types like Amex with Support) Add a Receipt Footer, a receipt phone number that will be used at the bottom of receipts of this Merchant Shop. The email address added here will be used to send receipts unless this gets overridden

contact our support team for assistance if you need to add more currencies. Once your additional currencies have been added, you can turn them ON or OFF for each merchant shop as needed.

Choose which card logos you would like to display. Contact our support team if you want to change the cards you accept.

In the receipt settings tab, you can:

In the Receipt setting tab, you have the ability to add a custom footer and phone number that will appear at the bottom of receipts for your merchant shop. The email address you enter in this section will be used to send receipts by default. However, it's important to note that you can override this email address with the receipts options under Payment

Preferences

preferences within the My

Account

account section.

You can redirect your customer after completing their payment use the Receipt redirect URL to redirect customers to a website of your choice using the Receipt Redirect URL. You can even after completing their payment. Additionally, you can set a time frame from completion to for the redirection using the Receipt Redirect Timeoutredirect timeout (in seconds).

Make sure you click on Save within the merchant shop settings. And Update when you are back on the general customiser page.

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Settings for individual Blink Pages

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Update customiser page

Settings for individual Blink pages

These settings are specifically for the individual blink pages specifically and , not for its their parent merchant account. If you have multiple Blink Pages, you shops. You can amend and select individual pages by clicking on more if you have multiple Blink Pages.

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Amending and selecting individual Blink

Pages

pages - More

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Banner

Similar to the logo

Opening Hours

This feature allows you to display your business hours to customers. To do so, simply click on the "Openings hours" icon and input the hours you are available. Additionally, you can also add your contact details such as email and phone number so that customers can easily reach out to you.

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Banner

To add a banner to the footer of your Blink page

by clicking

, click on the 'Add a Banner' icon and

then uploading

upload an image.

Once uploaded, click Update. It can be

You can upload any image type (PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF) and any size,

though

but we

recommend

suggest keeping it

to

at 610px x 140px

. You can also

. Once you have uploaded the image, click on the 'Update' button. If you want to change or remove the banner

.

Opening Hours

This feature shows customers when you are open and available. Click the icon (toggle on Openings Hours) and input the desired times to add opening hours. You can also add your contact details here (email and phone number) so customers know how to reach you.

Note

After making any changes, click Submit to confirm the changes and click on Update when you are back on the general customiser page to update the page.

Modify Fields

These settings allow you to customise the settings of each of the fields on your blink page, significantly improving your ability to keep track of your payments in the best way possible for your business.

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Visibility

If the reference or description fields are not needed, you can hide these fields.

Required

You can select which fields you require the customer to fill in

, you can do so anytime. You can also change or remove the banner.

Note

Once you have made any changes, please click the Submit button to confirm the changes.


Modify Fields

Customize the fields on your Blink page to better track payments for your business.

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Visibility

If you don't need the reference or description fields, you have the option to hide them.

Required

You have the ability to choose which fields are mandatory for the customer to complete.

Readonly

If you are using URL descriptors, you can

also

mark

some

certain fields as

Readonly (e

readonly.

g.

Blink3sixty.co.uk/testclothingstore?amount=10), so the customer can’t change it.

Display Name

You

can change the name of fields to suit your reporting needs better and choose what information you want from your customer.
(e.g.

have the flexibility to customize field names and gather specific information from customers. For instance, you can change Reference to Invoice Reference, Description to Message, or Full Name to Company Name

)

.

URL Descriptor

Using custom URL descriptors, Enhanced URLs

allow you to

can prepopulate specific fields on

the Blink page using the custom URL descriptor

Blink pages.

Settings

In the settings tab, you can edit the URL slug of the page and what Payment Types types you want to allow your customers to pay you with.

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Video Tutorial

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Blink Page

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Enhanced URL