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Overview
What is wordpresss -woocommerce/ ecommerce in general
What the Blink plugin doesWooCommerce is one of the most popular ecommerce software on the internet as it is built on WordPress and is easily customisable, regardless of technical knowledge. Please see the steps below in how to integrate Blink into your WooCommerce site, and accept card payments directly from there.
Requirements
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Merchant ID (this can be provided by our Support Team) |
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Signature key (this can be provided by our Support Team) |
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Blink gateway URL https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/hosted/modal |
If you would like to test the integration first, you can use the following test credentials:
Merchant Gateway ID
233508
Secret Key
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Installation
Please go Navigate to our Woocomerce GitHub link, click on the Code button and click Download the ZIP. Alternatively, you can download it directly with on this link.
On your site’s Wordpress WordPress Admin settings, navigate to Plugin Settings → Add New → Upload Plugin → Choose File. Select the plugin file that was downloaded (Blink-WooCommerce-main).
On the Installed-Plugins page, Acitvate click activate the Blink-WooCommerce plugin.
Navigate to WooCommerce Settings → Payments → All payment methods.
Find the Blink plugin and click Finish set up.
Tick Enable Blink on. For the Type of Integration field, select Hosted (Embedded).
Enter you your Merchant ID and signature key in their the relevant fields (contact our support team to receive this/ these).
Check that the Gateway URL is https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/hosted/modal.
Click Save.
Your WooCommerce integration is now complete.
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Processing a Transaction
Once your customer has added the items to their shopping cart, they will proceed to the site’s checkout, where they will fill in personal details such as their name, email, shipping address etc. . They then click Once filled in they will select “Pay with Credit/ Debit Card” (you can edit the button text can be edited in the plugin). Once clicked, where they will be directed to a checkout summary of the checkout with the Blink integration payment page opened in an iframe. The customer enters their card details (Name on Card, PAN number, CVV, & expire expiry date) and clicks on “Pay”. Blink will then process initiate the transaction through 3DS checks check and will show the customer whether the payment was process the transaction, once completed, your customer will be notified. successful.
If the payment was is unsuccessful, the customer will be prompted to try the payment again. If it was is successful, then the customer will be redirected to a success page and will receive an email receipt.
On WooCommerce, you will be able to can see the list of orders made on your site.
Orders with successful payments , will be marked as “Processing” “Processing,” i.e. you, the merchant, should now be processing the order. Whereas orders with the status “Pending” are when the customer has not yet made a successful order. For more on status orders, please visit the WooCommerce guide. GIF HERE
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In this integration, Blink only has control of the payment page. All the other parts of this flow are done by WooCommmerce and can be edited by you. |
Managing WooCommerce
transactionsTransactions on Blink
A record of a transaction that is done through the integration will be shown in on the Blink Card transactions page on Blink. It can take up to 20 minutes for integration transactions to appear. from here, you can manage the integration transaction like any other any Blink Transaction; that is : resend receipt, cancel, refund, rerun or repeat the transaction. See the Blink Cards transaction history guide for more details on these functions.
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Actioning a Refund/ Rerun on Blink will not change the order status in Woocommerce, it will need to be changed manually there. |
The details they have entered on the site (name, email, billing address) will all show in the transactions list. The transaction reference of a WooCommerce transaction will always start with “WC_order_” followed by a string of random letters.
Show what transaction from WooCommerce looks like - see address, name are all fetched
Can cancel/ refund rerun …. doesn’t reflect on Woocommerce.
Updating Plugin
How to remove and then reinstall
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iNTEGRATION GUIDEUpdating Plugin
We update the plugin frequently. If you want to upgrade your integration to the most recent version, please deactivate and delete the current version from WordPress.
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If you want to build more customised integrations, please look at our integration guide.
If you have any questions, please email our integration team integrationsupport@blinkpayment.co.uk.