Pay with MTN MoMo in WooCommerce vs Paystack for The Events Calendar

MTN MoMo is a mobile payment system which is available in Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Zambia, Swaziland, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, Congo Brazza and Nigeria 💥 November 2022 💥 also available in Nigeria 🇳🇬 💥 January 2022 💥 also available in South Africa 🇿🇦 and Liberia 🇱🇷 This plugin allows you to collect payments on your WooCommerce eShop using MTN MoMo in 13 countries 🇬🇭🇨🇲🇺🇬🇿🇲🇸🇿🇷🇼🇨🇮🇧🇯🇬🇳🇨🇬🇿🇦🇱🇷🇳🇬 You must have WooCommerce because we developed this plugin as a WooCommerce payment gateway 🚀 This is a fully functioning plugin not a demo version. It works in both Sandbox (development mode) and in Live (production mode). Please keep in mind that MoMo Sandbox has several limitations imposed by MTN, see them here: Sandbox is not requesting real money, means no USSD request on your phone. no matter how hard you try 😂 In the Sandbox you can only use EUR currency and certain test numbers from Sweden 🇸🇪 🥶 Sandbox is not able to callback your application, to notify about payment status. This one is a sad limitation. 😞 Test phones numbers to test for error conditions are limited to 46733123450, 46733123451, 46733123452, 46733123453 Only this number will be able to “pay” after 30 seconds 46733123454 😎 All other numbers will act like the payment was successful immediately! How to use Install and activate WooCommerce plugin before activating this plugin Select EUR as your WooCommerce currency if you want to test in Sandbox Select your target currency if you have done KYC process with MTN (see below for more) Install and activate this plugin Enter your Merchant name, MTN phone number and Email to receive notifications Continue to the next step, see below Plugin setup for MTN MoMo Sandbox – no real payments 🤮 Visit MoMo API Developer portal and sign-up 📧 Enable Collection API (NOT the Collection Widget API please) Get Sandbox Collection Primary key and enter it in the Plugin settings Test payments in Sandbox you can only use EUR currency IMPORTANT for Rwanda use https://momodeveloper.mtn.co.rw to sign-up and get the keys! Plugin setup for MTN MoMo Live – with real payments 💰😎 Visit MoMo API Developer portal and submit your KYC documents 📝📝📝 ⌛ Wait for the MTN to process your application and send you access to the Partner Portal and API management dashboard ⌛ Login to the momoapi.mtn.com and get your Live Collection Primary key 🔑 Login to the MTN Partner Portal and generate API user and API key 🔑 Enter Collection Primary key, API user and API key in the Plugin settings Accept payments! 💰💰💰 IMPORTANT for Rwanda use https://momodeveloper.mtn.co.rw/go-live to go Live! Get Collection Primary key here https://momoapi.mtn.co.rw Recently we got many reports that https://momodeveloper.mtn.co.rw Portal is not stable, so we advice to use https://momodeveloper.mtn.com instead. Please check the Rwanda FAQ below for more information. Supported currencies EUR (Sandbox only, no real payments) GHS Ghana / Ghanaian Cedi UGX Uganda / Ugandan Shilling XAF Cameroon / Central African CFA franc RWF Rwanda / Rwandan Franc XOF Benin / West African CFA franc XOF Ivory Coast / West African CFA franc XAF Congo Brazza / Central African CFA franc SZL Eswatini/Swaziland / Swazi Lilangeni GNF Guinea-Conakry / Guinean Franc ZMW Zambia / Zambian Kwacha ZAR South Africa / South African Rand LRD Liberia / Liberian dollar & USD NRN Nigeria / Naira ** IMPORTANT Do not forget to select your country and the currency in WooCommerce settings ** DEMO eShop – in Sandbox mode No real payments can be done, eShop currency EUR demo.momo.clickon.ch How to get Support You have several ways to request support for this plugin: You can send us an Email to [email protected] 🙋📧 Submit your question to the plugin discussion board on wordpress.com 🙋🗣️ Visit MTN MoMo Skype forums (ask for Mindaugas) 🙋😋 We will be more than happy to help you! 👍 Disclaimer ClickOn GmbH, the company behind this plugin and MTN MoMo Gateway, are not affiliated with MTN or WooCommerce. Please keep this in mind. 😎 This is a free plugin with Free gateway package, upgrade to Pro for more features, drop us an Email to [email protected] Privacy policy Please check our Privacy policy and see how we are handling your private data like name, phone numbers, Email address and any other data.

To get started, you can install the Paystack plugin from the plugins page of your WordPress installation by searching for “Paystack Gateway for The Events Calendar”. Alternatively, you can download the plugin from this page and follow the instructions on the page to install the plugin. Please be sure to activate the plugin when you have installed it. ☝🏻 Ensure you have installed the Events tickets add-on on your WordPress site before installing the Paystack for The Events Calendar plugin. The Paystack Gateway for The Events Calendar plugin cannot work without Events Tickets. After you have installed and activated the plugin, you should go to the Event Tickets Plugin Settings on the menu tab of your WordPress site and click the Payments tab. This will show a tab containing all the Payment options on your site. If you have installed the plugin correctly, you should see Paystack on that list. This is where you can configure the Paystack Plugin. Click Connect to Paystack Configuring the plugin Here we will discuss all the settings you’ll find in your Paystack for Events Calendar Plugin and how they should be set to function properly for your plugin. Enable Paystack: Ensure that the Enable Paystack toggle is on so that Paystack can show up on the list of Payment options during checkout Test Mode/Live Mode: Paystack provides test parameters that allow you to simulate a transaction without using real money. If you select “Test Mode”, Paystack will be using your Test API keys to parse the payments, meaning that the orders processed then will be done with test cards, no real money is exchanged therefore no real value should be delivered. When you are ready to go live, you can select the “Live Mode” option and the corresponding Live API keys. API keys: Kindly follow this link to your Paystack Dashboard Settings to find your API keys. Copy the right keys and enter them in the right fields in the plugin settings. Checkout Mode: You can select the Popup or Redirect method to specify how you want the Paystack checkout to be displayed to the customer. Webhooks: Copy the auto-generated URL and save it as your webhook URL on your Paystack Dashboard Settings, under the API Keys & Webhook tab.