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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Paystation

Overview

Paystation is a New Zealand based payment gateway. You can read more about it on their official website: http://www.paystation.co.nz

 

Paystation offers 2 modes that map to Squirrelcart's connection methods:

 

As of this writing, Paystation must assign you an account for use with either their Two Party or Three Party connection method. You can't use an account created for one method on the other. 

Information Needed

Two Party

Requirements

Setup Instructions

  1. Contact Paystation support, and ask them to add your server's IP address to their firewall. Do not continue until Paystation support has confirmed that they have done this.
  2. Click the Payment Gateways link in your control panel
  3. Click the record row labeled Paystation
  4. Enter your Paystation ID in the Paystation ID field. This is also your Paystation username.
  5. Leave the Quick Lookup field blank
  6. Set the Connection Method field to Store Hosted / Server to Gateway. 
  7. Check the Enabled field
  8. Click Save Changes

Three Party

Security

With Paystation's "Three Party" connection method, your customer is sent to Paystation's website to submit their payment information. Paystation then returns the customer to your website, along with some data in the URL to tell Squirrelcart the status of that transaction. Squirrelcart uses the information in that URL to decide whether to approve or decline an order. It's possible for a customer to alter this URL to fake an "approved" statuts even if Paystation issued a decline.

To add security, Paystation has a "quick lookup" feature that allows your server to make a separate behind the scenes request to Paystation to see if the transaction is legitimate. We recommend that you make use of this feature, which has additional requirements outlined below.

If you do not make use of their "quick lookup" feature, you should always confirm in your Paystation control panel that a transaction has been approved and for the correct amount before shipping any goods.

Requirements

Other than a Paystation Three Party account, there are no special requirements. If you make use of the "quick lookup" feature (recommended), it has the following requirements:

Setup Instructions

  1. Contact Paystation support, and ask them to add your server's IP address to their firewall. You will also need to tell them your return URL, which is the same as your storefront page URL, as in http://www.example.com/store.php.

    If you plan on using the Quick Lookup feature as explained in the Security section above, you will also need to tell Paystation support to add your server's IP address to the firewall for Quick Lookup.

    Do not continue until Paystation support has confirmed that they have setup these things for you in their system.
  2. Click the Payment Gateways link in your control panel
  3. Click the record row labeled Paystation
  4. Enter your Paystation ID in the Paystation ID field. This is also your Paystation username.
  5. If you wish to use the "quick lookup" feature described in the Security section above,  enter the number "1" in the Quick Lookup field. If you do not want to enable "quick lookup", leave this field blank.
  6. Set the Connection Method field to Gateway Hosted.
  7. Check the Enabled field
  8. Click Save Changes

 

 


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