Shopify Discussion

I also heart that moneybookers is popular in Europe.

Sven,

I just signed up for MoneyBookers, but I don’t see any way for us to support them. What I would do is just create a manual payment gateway called MoneyBookers and then place the MoneyBooker instructions there. Then you can just mark the payment as received when you see the payment in your MoneyBookers account.

Also, do you know of any “real” payment gateways in Germany? It would be nice to integrate with a standard payment gateway in Germany, we just don’t know of any yet.

cody you’re right. moneybookers isn’t the right thing, i though it was a cc payment gateway but i guess it’s not.

after another round of extensive googling i’ve found this:

http://www.pago.de/Pago-Online-Acceptance.poa_en.0.html

could this be what we’re after?

update:

http://www.paybill.de/

(was recommended by osCommerce users for being easy to implement and relatively cheap)

EDIT:

these seem to be popular:

http://www.payone.de/data/produkte/start.html

and

http://www.wirecard.de/

EDIT2:

and a few more:

http://www.ipayment.de

http://www.directpos.de/produkt.dhtml

http://worldpay.de/

http://www.e-prompt.de/

any news?

i’d be very interested in more european/german gateways being supported in shopify (and the activemerchant library).

the list above mixes big and rather marginal gateways. from the above list i’d focus on ipayment because it can be used with a wide variety of merchant banks/merchant service providers worldwide (see http://www.1und1.info/xml/order/WpIpaymentZahlungsAnbieter for a comprehensive list). furthermore ipayment charges relatively low transaction fees (from € 0,05 – 0,19 per transaction). ipayment charges monthly fees of currently €29,75. it also offers other nice features such as storage of customer data (for subscriptions etc.) for up to one year at no extra cost. the api is well documented though only in german (?).

to name a few other big payment service providers which are supported by ‘professional’ shopping-cart systems such as omeco webshop 3.2, epages 5 merchant, oxid e-shop and the popular living-e webedition 5 software (which includes a cart):
saferpay (www.saferpay.com), a service provided by the telekurs card ag – a swiss psp which is rapidly expanding its services to other european countries
click&pay easy by telecash (www.telecash.de)

if help is needed with translating some of the documentation, i’d be happy to contribute.

hint: in the meantime you can use the chronopay and paypal-express gateways in germany too – at least to my knowledge!

cheers

david

Now we are getting somewhere. iPayment seems to be an actual gateway provider in the active merchant sense. Their “Gateway CGI-Modus” seems to be the right choice.

Documentation PDF

We would love a contribution of this gateway to the Active Merchant library. Cody, who implements our gateways, is not well versed in german so an integration from our side is less then likely. May i suggest the interested parties to pool some resources and put up a bounty?

thanks for your reply, tobi.

i was hoping that you would take care of the implementation, though. shopify is still a paid (albeit very reasonable, i agree) service, so i don’t see why we, the clients, should have to pay for such an implementation. furthermore: where should we start, who should we ask to integrate it?

as david states, i could help with the translation as well. and probably so can you, am i right?

it would be a really nice gesture to invest in your non-us (to be more specific: german) userbase…

Oh i can fully understand that you would like us to implement it but even if we accept the proposal it would go to the bottom of a todo list which currently is probably a solid 6 months long. You may want to contact the gateway provider however, they might be interested in the additional business.

ok, can you tell me what exactly i have to ask for? an active merchant integration?

edit: or should i contact the mailing list with a job offer “who can make ipayment work with shopify and what would it cost?” ?

tobi? anyone?

You may want to contact the gateway provider however, they might be interested in the additional business.

I did that and just got the reply pointing me to the documentation describing how to integrate it myself.

Unfortunately I can’t even put iPayment on my TODO list without English documentation. Perhaps someone on the ActiveMerchant mailing list that is fluent in German would be interested in implementing the gateway.

Hi, as I can see Tobi told more than 8 month ago that a telecash interface could be on the bottom of the todo list. And this need 6 months at least…. ;)

I would like use our already exist telecash account for easy cc.

Does anybody implement Telecash on shopify or is there any other solution?

Yes, Telecash implementation would be nice here, too. Cause we plan to use shopify in conjunction with TeleCash, but i can’t find any information right now on how to do with shopify.

So if there are any new information on how to implement german payment merchats, please drop a line here.