eWAY

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eWAY Processing Features

eWAY launched in 1997 with a vision to make payments easy.  Today, they are 25% of the local online market and trading in 8 countries.  eWAY has processed billions in payments every year across the globe for tens of thousands of businesses. eWAY is merchant centric and believes in offering the community a safe, reliable, and frictionless payment gateway which is a cornerstone to their growth and success.

AbleCommerce supports all the standard features of the eWAY payment gateway.

  • Authorize

  • Authorize Capture (Sale)

  • Capture

  • Void

  • Refund

  • Partial Refund

eWAY is an Australian provider.  All amounts will be in AUD unless configured differently within your merchant account.

Post-order Processing

All AbleCommerce payment gateway integrations offer full support for post-order processing.  This means that after an order is placed, you can authorize, capture, refund, and void transactions from the AbleCommerce order administration area.

Some post-order processing features, such as refunds, may require that you enable credit card storage from the Configure > Security > System Settings page.

Installing the eWay Gateway

  1. Login to your AbleCommerce installation.

  2. Using the menu, go to the Plugins page.

  3. Use the Filter Plugins option and select the type "Payment".

    NOTE: eWay plugin will be available in the list as shown in the screenshot below.

  4. Click the green Install button in the far right column.

  5. When the confirmation popup appears, click the green Yes, install it button.

  6. Upon completion, click the orange Configure button.


    NOTE: Version shown may be different depending on the release of AbleCommerce you are using.

Configure eWAY Payment gateway

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following information which will be provided by eWAY:

  • Merchant Login ID = Your eWAY Customer ID

  • Merchant Password = Your eWAY API Password

If you have trouble finding this information, skip to the next section on this page for help.

  1. From Configure > Payment > Gateways page, all of the installed payment gateways will be shown.

    NOTE: Visit the Plugins page to install a new payment gateway. There is no limit to the number of gateways that can be install and/or in use.

  2. To configure a new gateway, click the blue plus (+) button to continue. If the gateway is already configured, click the Edit button to make changes.

  3. You will now be on the Add eWay configuration page as shown below:

  4. In the field named Merchant Login, enter the number known as the Customer ID.

  5. In the field named Merchant Password, enter your API password.

  6. Choose the type of Authorization Mode.

    • Authorize: to request authorization without capturing funds at the time of purchase. You can capture authorized transactions through the order admin interface.

    • Authorize & Capture: to capture funds immediately at the time of purchase. You should not use this feature unless you are able to ship goods the same day of the sale.

  7. Choose the Gateway Mode.

    • Live Mode - used for processing live transactions with a production merchant account.

    • Test Mode - used for testing transactions with a development merchant account.

  8. Debug Mode: When debug mode is enabled, all messages sent to and received from eWay are logged. This should only be enabled at the direction of qualified support personnel.

    Default Log File Location: ..\App_Data\Logs\[gatewayname].log

  9. The Test URL and Live URL fields are used to store the connection link to the gateway.  This information is pre-populated when you configure the gateway and should not be changed unless directed by eWAY or AbleCommerce personnel.

  10. In the bottom section of the page, find the section called Payment Methods.

  11. Click the box next to all credit card payment methods that will use the eWAY gateway.

  12. At the bottom of the page, click the Save and Close button to finish.

Configuration Settings in your eWAY account

This section provides information on configuring your eWAY account to work with the AbleCommerce integrated gateway.

  1. Go to eWAY's website and login to your merchant account.

  2. At the very bottom of the page, within the footer, find your CustomerID number.  This is the first piece of information you will need for AbleCommerce.  It should be entered in the Merchant Login field of the AbleCommerce eWAY configuration page.

  3. From the top-menu, click on the MY ACCOUNT tab.  Then click on the API link to view a password change page as shown in the sample below:

  4. Create or change your MyeWAY password on this page. This should be entered in the Merchant Password field of the AbleCommerce eWAY configuration page.

    - eWAY sandbox accounts do not use the API password because post-order processing is not supported.

Testing with eWAY

Setup a eWAY sandbox account through https://www.eway.com.au/developers/sandbox-certification

  1. Edit the eWAY gateway configuration page in AbleCommerce.

  2. Change the Authorization Mode to Authorization & Capture.  

    - sandbox accounts only support purchase transactions
    - sandbox accounts do not support any post-order transactions

  3. Change the Gateway Mode to Test Mode.

  4. At the bottom of the page, click the SAVE button.

  5. Use the credit card numbers listed below.

  6. Be sure to change the gateway Mode to Live before processing real credit card transactions.

eWAY Test Credit Card numbers

Visa  4444333322221111
MasterCard 5105105105105100

NOTE: There may be additional features within your eWay account that have not been tested with AbleCommerce.  If you enable unsupported features, you are doing so at your own risk.