HOW CAN I CONFIGURE MY MIVA STORE TO USE THE RODOPI PAYMENT GATEWAY (RPG)?

Answer by: Stuart Pierce, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support.

The Payment Gateway will pick up your transactions online over a secure Internet connection and will process the transactions. Aplus.Net is proud to operate its own payment gateway, called RPG (Rodopi Payment Gateway). It is certified by Miva as well as by 95% of the US Banks.

If you have already set up your Merchant Account, all you need to do is provide Aplus.Net with your Merchant account information, and we will set up the Rodopi Payment Gateway for you. The set up of the RPG is included in the eCommerce Unix hosting plan. To provide us with your Merchant Account information, please fill out the RPG Setup Information Sheet.

Important: The following screenshots and instructions apply to Unix-based, eCommerce Unix plans using Miva 5.

Here is how to configure your Miva Merchant Store to use the RPG:

Login into your Miva Admin Panel at http://yourdomain.com/mm5/admin.mvc using the Main FTP Username and FTP Password of your eCommerce Unix shared hosting plan.

Note: If you are in the Simple Administration mode, switch to Advanced Administration mode.

Expand the Stores menu.

Expand your Miva Store.

Click on Payment Configuration.

Check the box next to R-P-G and click on Update.

Now, click on the R-P-G (Rodopi Payment Gateway) tab:

Here, you have to specify the following information:

Merchant Name - enter your Merchant Name. It is assigned to you by Aplus.Net after you have sent your Merchant Account information to us with the RPG Setup Information Sheet.
Password - enter the password corresponding to your Merchant Name.
URL - this text field is set by default, please do not change it.
Currency Symbol - choose a currency for your Miva Store using the drop-down menu.
Charge Method - use the respective radio buttons to select a credit card authorization method:

Online - authorizes the credit card when the order is placed and bills that credit card at the same time, if it has been approved.
Offline - only performs the credit card authorization and leaves the actual billing to be done when the order is processed.
Store Entire CC Number - check this box to store the entire credit card number when an order is placed. Otherwise, only the last 4 digits of the credit card will be seen.
Test Mode - leave this box unchecked. MIVA's Test Mode cannot be used with RPG, and tests will always return an error. However, you can use the test credit cards listed below to test your store "live".

Available Payment Methods - select the credit cards to be available to your customers as payment methods. This might be limited by your Merchant Account. If you are unsure, please contact your merchant account representative at your bank or credit union.

Finally, click Update.

You can now visit your newly created Miva Store and try to purchase a product using any of the test credit cards listed below. Please ensure that the product you are purchasing during the test is below $100.00. Your test result will be positive, if the error returned is "Unable to authorize payment: HARDDECLINED:Decline". This error message means that the request has been processed by the gateway and transmitted to the financial institution, but declined as an invalid card number.

American Express: 341-1111-1111-1111 and 378-2822-4631-0005 (15 digits).
Discover: 6011-6011-6011-6611 (16 digits).
MasterCard: 5431-1111-1111-1111 and 5555-5555-5555-4444 (16 digits).
Visa: 4111-1111-1111-1111 (16 digits).

Note: When testing your store with the above test credit cards, you can use any expiration date, as long as it is past the month and year of the current test transaction.