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Understand the usage of Payment Gateways within CRM.COM |
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What are Payment Gateways?
Payment Gateways are 3rd party systems used to perform payments. CRM.COM has an integration with Stripe Payment Gateway, however it supports partial handling of payments for other 3rd party, Payment Gateways, referred to as Generic Gateways. CRM.COM, creates Payment Requests, for Payments that are destined for Generic Gateways, and these requests can be further handled by WEB APIs. For example, CRM.COM Web APIs, can be used to gather all the Payment Requests that require handling by a Payment Gateway, as well as update CRM.COM with the results, such as completing or rejecting the Payment Requests.
Payment Gateways Glossary
| Term | Description |
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| Payment Gateway | Payment Gateway is the framework that allows a merchant to accept Credit Card and other forms of electronic payments. These are 3rd party systems. |
| Generic Payment Gateway Provider | Within CRM.COM Generic Payment Gateway Providers, are the Payment Gateways for which no direct integration exists. |
| Stripe Payment Gateway Provider | Stripe Payment Gateway Provider is a built in integration of CRM.COM and Stripe payment gateway |
| Payment Request | These are requests for Payments created within CRM.COM, and that require processing by 3rd party Payment Gateways, whether this is Stripe or a Generic Payment Gateway |
| "Pending Verification" Payment | Payments created in CRM.COM that require further processing by 3rd party Payment Gateway. The CRM.COM Payment can only be posted once the Payment Gateway updates CRM.COM with a successful result |
| "Pending Verification" Payment Cancellation | Payment Cancellations created in CRM.COM that require further processing by 3rd party Payment Gateway. The CRM.COM Payment can only be posted once the Payment Gateway updates CRM.COM with a successful result. CRM.COM Payment Cancellation should refund the customer on the Payment Gateway's side |
| Payment Gateway merchant account | The account owned by the business (that also has CRM.COM System) at the Payment Gateway. This is the account to where customer payments will be made, and from where money will be taken for refunds. |
| Payment Method | Payment Method is used to determine how a customer chooses to pay an amount of money, and is defined when creating a Payment |
| Payment Preference | Payment Preference is used to define the preferred method of paying an outstanding amount of money, and is defined on the Accounts Receivable |
Payment Gateways Key Processes and Concepts
| Processes / Concept | Description |
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| Automatic Wallet Top up | Wallets are mini accounts which primarily handle financials related to Rewards and Prepaid Subscriptions. Funds from the Wallets are deducted, usually when a payment is made for a Prepaid Subscription, or when a Rewards Participant redeems his awards. A functionality is available to detect whether the balance of the Wallet has gone under a certain amount, and if so, the System will create a Payment Request to the Payment Gateway the customer has registered with, to automatically top up the Wallet. This is particularly helpful in cases where the customers make a Subscription with a recurring fee, and would like to automatically make a payment whenever required, so that their Subscription is never deactivated |
| Automatic Bill Payment | Unsettled Bills can be directly paid by requests made to the Payment Gateway. In this way a Bill will always get handled before it is due, without customers worrying whether the payment has been made. This works like a Direct Debit requests, however in this case is electronically handled via a Payment Gateway. |
| Refunding Cancelled Payments | When a Payment that was handled via a Payment Gateway and successfully completed, is cancelled in CRM.COM, then the customer must receive a refund for his money. In such cases, a request will be created that is to be handled by the Payment Gateway and refund the customer accordingly, deducting money from the merchant's account. |
| Communicating Payment Gateway information to customers | Payment Gateway Cards and Payment Gateway Requests can be communicated to customers through email or SMS using Communication Tags which will retrieve specific to the customer data. Lists with customer accounts that have Payment Gateway Requests or Payment Gateway Cards can be created and used in various places in the System. These lists are known as Segments. One of the CRM.COM areas that can make use of Segments is Notifications which can be used to send Communications in bulk, i.s. to all customers that belong in a Segment. |
Payment Gateways Access & Viewing Controls
Business Network Characteristics define the level of access for each record. i.e. Whether it will be available for selection, for viewing or editing etc.
| Entity | Network Characteristics | Description |
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Generic Gateway Provider | Generic Gateway Provider has no access restrictions. It can be viewed and selected by all users. | |
| Payment Gateway Requests | Global Viewing Access Entities | Payment Gateway Requests have no access restrictions. They can be viewed and selected by all users. |
| Payment Gateway Runs | Global Viewing Access Entities | Payment Gateway Runs have no access restrictions. They can be viewed and selected by all users. |
Payment Gateways Related Modules
| Entity | Interaction of Payment Gateways with the Entity |
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| Wallets | System can be set to automatically top-up Wallets when their balance falls to a defined amount |
| Accounts Receivable | The details required by the Payment Gateway, for example, Credit Card or Bank account number are saved on the Payment Peferences of the Accounts receivable |
| Bills | Bills can be settled by Payments executed through the Payment Gateway |
| Stripe | Stripe is a Payment Gateway with which CRM.COM has integrated with, and uses the Automatic Payment Run Definitions to update Stripe with the payments that must be handled |
Payment Gateways - Business Examples
The following section provides business examples to help you understand how CRM.COM Payment Gateways module is used.
Handling Payments Online via a Payment Gateway
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Business Requirement Company ZX has its merchant account registered with Zulu Payment Gateway. Zulu is a Payment Gateway that handles Credit Card payments. Customers that wish to make their payments using Credit Cards must also have an account at Zulu.Zulu is updated with any payments made in CRM.COM in an hourly basis, and in return, responds to CRM.COM with either a successful or erroneous message. Payments to be handled by Zulu are the following:
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