How do I set up eWAY?

eWAY is a payment gateway for credit card payments over secure connection and conforms to PSI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)

Payment Processing Overview

The process that a payment using eWAY goes through can be briefly stated as:

• The user constructs their order and checks out
• When they select a credit card payment (assuming eWAY is configured) they will be presented with Credit Card fields and they would then submit their order
• We do some preliminary setup and checks such as the following
  • Ensure the order is valid for submission
  • Setup payment information
  • Request an Access Code for the transaction from eWAY over a secure connection which needs to be posted with the card information.
• Once our checks and setup are done we post/submit the page including the credit card information and the Access Code, on behalf of the user, directly to eWAY's servers. Their credit card information goes directly to eWAY and we never have to handle or even see the information at any point in the process
• eWAY processes the payment and then redirects the user to our return page which finalizes order and sends the user to the appropriate Success or Fail pages

Step-by-step guide

To setup eWay Rapid API Version 1.1

1. Login as an Administrator
2. Go to the Settings page
3. Select the Orders tab
4. Select the Credit Cards sub-tab
5. Configure the following settings:
   1. for the C/Card Payment Provider setting chose eway rapid api
   2. for the Credit Card Capture Customer ID setting enter your Customer ID (provided by eWAY)
   3. check the Retain Payment Provider Customer ID Token checkbox if you want customers to be able to choose whether their information will be stored in eWAY and be able to be used on subsequent payments

   4. for the eWay Billing Country put the relevant 2 letter country code: ex: 'au', 'nz' a full list of available codes can be found here

      The code entered must be all lowercase

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