Amazon Payments and
Ecommerce Templates
Amazon Payments (Simple Pay) was
integrated into Ecommerce Templates shopping cart software in Version
5.6.5. It
allows your customers to use their current Amazon account to purchase
goods from your store. The customer would check out as normal and
select Amazon Payments as their payment method on the shipping
and billing page. They would then be taken to the Amazon secure
server to enter their Amazon login credentials and review and confirm
their order. If successful the customer will be returned to the
store thanks page with a summary of their order details.
Setting up an account
with Amazon
If you don't already have an Amazon Payments business
account , you can sign up for a free Amazon
Payments Business Account.
If you are not sure whether you have a business
account, click this registration
link. If your transaction
history page appears, you already have a business account.
The Amazon Payments registration page
collects your e-mail address,
details about your business, and information about the bank account
you want to deposit funds to. You will receive an email from Amazon
to verify your email address so check your spam / junk folders
if it isn't received.
To verify your bank account, Amazon Payments makes two small
deposits to your account and then
notifies you by an e-mail containing a link to verify the deposits.
You can verify those deposits at
https://payments.amazon.com/. To Get Your Access Key ID and Secret Key
- Go to the Amazon
Web Services page.
- In the top right select Your Account > Security Credentials
- Scroll down to view the Access Key ID and Secret Key
- Copy the secret access key and store in a safe place.
Setting up your Ecommerce Template with Amazon
Payments
Once you have created your account, choose Edit
Payment Providers in the store admin settings and click modify
for Amazon Simple Pay. Make
sure the Enabled box is checked, and enter the Access Key and Secret
Key. You should not enter your Amazon account password
into any of the store fields.
For the Transction Type you will normally want
to set this to Authorize Capture. This corresponds to Amazon's
"Settle payments immediately" and means that the credit
card will be charged at the time of purchase. If you want
the payment to be reserved on the
buyer's credit card but not settled at the time of order, select
Authorize Only. When using Authorize Only you can settle the order
or issue a refund through the admin orders page, this is not the
case with Authorize Capture.
For testing purposes (using the Amazon sandbox),
you can put Amazon
Payments into demo mode but remember to
uncheck that box before going live with the store.
Please note that shipping information is collected
from the shipping information entered through your
store. How to add your logo to the Amazon Checkout page
- Log in to your Amazon Payments Business Account
at the http://payments.amazon.com web site.
- Click the Edit my Account Settings link.
- Click the Manage Developer and Seller Preferences link.
- In the Manage Selling Preferences page, click the Co-branded
header image radio button and
enter the URL for your company
For example, http://www.yourstoreurl.com/images/logo.gif
- Click the Confirm button.
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