Ceon Sage Pay Form 2.0.2

[conor]

Hi,

It gives me great pleasure to release the latest version of Ceon Sage Pay Form for Zen Cart.

An overview of the module and the full feature list follow:


Module Overview

This payment module provides everything a Zen Cart store needs to accept credit/debit card payments using Sage Pay's payment gateway, redirecting the customer to a secure payment page on Sage Pay's website, using their Form service.

Ceon Sage Pay Form offers easier PCI compliance than the self-hosted Direct solution as the store doesn't ever handle card details, but this does limit the user experience a little compared to flexibility that can be offered when self-hosting the checkout payment functionality.

Stores wishing to accept cards online through Sage Pay only need sign up for a Sage Pay Go account and to link it with a merchant account. (If the store doesn't yet have a merchant account, Sage Pay can provide a good deal with their partners).


Feature List

Full support of all essential parts of Sage Pay Form's 2.23 Protocol

• This includes support for the three different Transaction Types: Authenticate, Deferred and Immediate Charge.
• It also includes support for the various AVS (Address Verification) Options, CV2 (Card Verification Value) Options and 3D-Secure Options.
• These features are easily configured using simple radio buttons in the Module's Admin Configuration.

Full 3D-Secure Support

• Also known as “Verified by Visa” or “MasterCard SecureCode”, 3D-Secure adds an extra layer of security to the acceptance of card details over the internet. The online equivalent to “Chip and Pin”, it is anticipated that the majority of cards will eventually make use of this technology.

Icons for each Card Type Accepted and/or PayPal

• If this option is enabled in the admin, icons are displayed for each credit/debit card accepted as well as an optional icon to indicate that Sage Pay can process a PayPal payment (see picture at right), a professional way to make it easier for customers at the checkout stage to see what card types the store accepts.
• Card Types/Payment Methods supported:
  
  • Visa
  • MasterCard
  • Maestro
  • Visa Debit
  • MasterCard Debit
  • American Express
  • Visa Electron (UKE)
  • Diners Club International
  • JCB
  • Laser
  • PayPal
  
  

Cards Accepted Sidebox

• A “Cards Accepted” sidebox also comes with the module, allowing the dynamic display of icons for each type of credit/debit card accepted by the store.
• This lets customers know what card types are accepted even before they've reached the checkout stage.
• The display of the “Secured by Sage Pay” logo gives further confidence to the customer that they are using a professional website with a reliable payment gateway.
• A “Secured by Protx” logo can also be displayed if desired, for those stores whose customers may still be more familiar with the older Protx branding.

Support for any number of Merchant Account Currencies & any number of Sage Pay Go Accounts [New for 2.0.0]

• Any number of Merchant Account Currencies can be used with the module, simply by configuring the module with the currencies that can be used and linking the currencies to Sage Pay Go account(s).
• If a customer tries to check out in a currency for which there is no matching Merchant Account, the module will automatically convert the order's total to that of the default Merchant Account's currency when performing the transaction with Sage Pay.

Quick and Easy Installation or Upgrading

• Thanks to its automatic database creation functionality and automatic upgrade functionality, Ceon Sage Pay Form is exceptionally easy to install or upgrade.

Sage Pay and/or Protx Logo Display

• As Sage Pay is a rebranding of the popular company Protx, many people may still be more familiar with the Protx brand. For this reason there are options in the module's admin to display the Sage Pay logo, the Protx logo or both logos. The title of the module as displayed to the customer can also change respectively.

Support for Sage Pay's Simulator testing services

• This module allows the testing of its operation and configuration in conjunction with Sage Pay's extremely handy Simulator service, avoiding having to create lots of test orders with lots of bogus details. Once the configuration has been confirmed as working, the module can be switched to using the store vendor's My Sage Pay Go live account(s) at the click of a radio button!

Automatic Database Table Creation Functionality

• Ceon Sage Pay Form automatically creates its database table upon installation.

Full Transaction Recording

• The transaction attempt is recorded in the database, before contacting Sage Pay.
• Its progress is then recorded at any significant points along the way.
• This allows tracking of how far any incomplete transactions got, and as a consequence, for the possibility of linking up with cart recovery software to recreate an order which, for any reason, wasn't associated with a completed payment (although this hasn't been implemented in any way).
• The tracking also records details about the session, including a human-readable description, based on the customer's name, so a series of transaction attempts by a customer can be grouped together for easy analysis/trouble-shooting.

Syncing of Order Information with Third Party Software

• The product information sent to Sage Pay can have the model code prepended to the products' names, conforming to the format used by several of the latest Sage software packages (and any other third party software which can parse the same format), allowing them to easily synchronise product information when integrating with Sage Pay.

Debugging Output Modes [Rewritten for 2.0.0]

• Sometimes there can be problems sending information to and/or receiving information from Sage Pay. The debugging output modes give the ability to see what information was sent and received, so any problems can be identified and fixed quickly and easily.
• There is a “Visual Debugging” option, to display debugging information onscreen at critical points of the checkout process.
• There is also a “Debugging to File” option, to silently log all information, including extended “back end” debugging information, to a file created especially for the current user session.
• There is also the option to use a combination of both visual and file-based debugging, for instant onscreen output of the most useful information, with the full, extended information available in a file.
• Most stores should never need this functionality though and it is consequently disabled by default.

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1453


Enjoy!


This is now the official support thread for the software.


All the best...

Conor

[picandnix]

Hi Conor
Awesome work again! How does this mod vary to your other sage pay mod http://store.ceon.net/business/zen-cart/sage-pay-direct please?

[conor]

Hi,

lol, didn't think I'd be answering questions on the mods already.. :)

Awesome work again! How does this mod vary to your other sage pay mod http://store.ceon.net/business/zen-cart/sage-pay-direct please?

Sage Pay have three different services, Direct, Form and Server, each of which works completely differently and each of which require their own module to connect with.

I prefer the "Direct" method whereby the customer is kept on the store's sit,e but that requires a lot more in terms of PCI compliance etc., which often requires spending more cash on server setups etc.

Form is a "Redirect" module which takes the customer off the store's site to Sage Pay's own website.

Most stores seem to go with the Form redirection method, despite the "issue" with customers not coming back to the store and the Zen Cart order therefore not being created, because the customer has closed their browser tab/window or not clicked on a link to go back to the store (if JavaScript is disabled). There's not really much you can do about that, that's the nature of how these things work.

There's a basic comparison of the three different service types/features here.

Hope that helps!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[TonyB6]

We moved to this module after upgrading from 1.3.9 to 1.50 however since doing so we've experienced a great deal of failed orders. In so far as payment is being taken by sagepay but no order/confirmation is being created. We've seem to have tracked this down to the "Verify by Visa" section on sagepay where users are being advised to set up their securecode and then in doing so are being informed that their card has been declined. They are then redirected back to our websites order page. This however is not the case as sage pay do indeed take payment and we received the payment confirmation from sagepay.

I see from looking at your version in our payment module that we are running 2.0.2 however it appears that there is now a 2.0.3 version but I am not able to find this to download on zen! maybe you can advise?

many thanks
Tony

[conor]

Hi Tony,

Please send the debug output for one of these transactions to me via this address.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[TonyB6]

Will do, I've just enabled the debuging so the next time it happens I'll forward the details. It does seem to be only happening to those customers who are using Verify by Visa for the first time and are setting up their secure code.

Thanks
Tony

[TonyB6]

Debug information posted to you.

Hi Tony,

Please send the debug output for one of these transactions to me via this address.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[Ryk]

I regret to advise you that Conor passed away last night. Please see http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?202939

[Togfather]

Hello,

I have installed this plug in , and have tested it as far as getting to the sagepay web site, which works. However, if I place an order but do not make payment, there is no record of the order in the admin console.

Reading the features I see that it says: The transaction attempt is recorded in the database, before contacting Sage Pay, but this does not seem to be happening.

Can you offer any help please? the web site is at: www.braefootvenison.co.uk

Regards

Tog Porter

[ConsultMe]

Hi have made a basic update to this community contribution so it complies with the minimum requirements of Sage Pay Protocol 3.00 - hopefully this should appear in the download area as v2.1 soon.

In the mean time anyone needing Protocol v3.00 Sage Pay Form integration please feel free to contact me.

Regards,
Andrew