Litepaid cryptocurrency payment module [SUPPORT]

This is the support thread for the LitePaid payment module for Zen Cart 1.5.x

Payment provider LitePaid allows you to accept Bitcoin, and lots of other digital currencies, as payment. You can choose the currencies you want to accept and whether you want payouts in the accepted digital currencies or in EUR. LitePaid will take care of exchange rates and conversion, and for the shop owner there are no costs other than a small transactions fee.

It's fast and simple.

Litepaid currently targets at the SEPA area (EU + other SEPA countries).

The module will be uploaded later today.

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Firstly is it safe to use bitcoins on google and can you exchange bitcoins to normal money ,seems to be conflicting reviews about them....ta

Safe to use bitcoins on google?? I don't understand the question.

And yes, you can exchange bitcoins to "normal money", but if you prefer to receive EUR (in stead of the currency the orders are paid with) there is no need to exchange it yourself, you simply let LitePaid do the conversion for you. It's automatic, and you get the exact EUR amount of the order (minus a small transaction fee), so you don't need to worry about the exchange rates or anything.

Although you can accept all coins (that LitePaid supports) I suggest to limit to coins you feel comfortable with and that fit with your store. Of course bitcoin is the most known coin at the moment, but you can also accept social currencies like Reddcoin and Dogecoin. And for the Dutch I highly recommend Guldencoin.

Depending on what you sell this may very well boost you sales, especially if you promote the fact that you accept these coins on the respective subreddits, forums or whatever media the coin community uses.

lol dunno where google came into it must have been on my brain ..... Meant to say my website .... ..Been reading into it and as with everything else new people are saying it's a dodgy way to use this kind of money and not to trust it,but I am happy to try anything new if it can help with sales,also the reason I asked if you can draw out money is that I have never used bit coins before ,possibly never will but who can tell ( I thought I never would own a mobile phone but now can't do with out it lol )

Hi
I have signed up and then uploaded files to my site ... All files were in correct place ,but when I went to start I could not open lightpaid and to top it off Paypal functions in Payment Modules is now missing ... It still works and files are still in ftp just missing from Payment Modules section in zencart ...
I have removed all litepaid files from my ftp but paypal has still vanished ... Any ideas please .. Also I have replace paypal files from back up but that has not worked either
using 1.5.3

Most likely one or more files are copied to a wrong location anyway, but if you removed all files it really should work again. Usually checking the server error log is a quick way to track such issues.

If you want me to take a look (at no charge) send me a PM.

EDIT: by the way, if modules are "missing" in your admin this usually means php is halted due to some fatal error, and that is why you don't see modules that are to be loaded after.

pm sent

Probably best to install the Litepaid module again and give it another shot (the problem with the payment modules not showing up appeared to be a fatal error, NOT related to the Litepaid module).

Hi
OK it's going again but getting this error when trying to pay
LitePaid payment error: EUR payment only!
Used the api key under website settings
hopefully it is something simple

Since I did not expect non EUR payments to work well with Litepaid I build in basic protection against non EUR payments, and that is what you see now (I assume the selected currency was GPB). But recently I tested the module with a non EUR currency and somehow the amount seemed correct. To be honest I don't yet understand why...

In addition to the above, even if the amounts are correct, I am not sure how this should be handled because Litepaid will pay you in EUR (or the choses digital currency). Would that be acceptable?

(p.s. I will quite busy tomorrow, but hope to be able to look into this closer after that)

Yep no prob .. I've disabled it for now though in case someone does try and use it

New version ready (to be uploaded soon)
v1.0.2:
- Added option to allow other currencies than EUR (beta!).
- LitePaid testmode added.
- Test IP-address added, to be able to hide the module in test phase.
- Updated several texts.

I like the testing bit, will wait for new download

When I find a solution for non EUR as default currency shops, a new version will be uploaded to the add ons section.

Meanwhile version 1.0.2 will be attached to this post and upgrading to version 1.0.2 is recommended but not required. As long as EUR is the default currency, and payment statuses and amounts are checked, there is currently no problem with either using version 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 of this payment module.

Hello,
I have a problem getting the Litepaid module for Zen Cart to work. Everything shows up OK, Litepaid shows up as payment option, I can select it and the order does show up in the Litepaid Transactions but then, when confirming, I get a blank page with nothing but "API CALL FAILED"

I already installed everything twice, first version 1.0.1, then 1.0.2. with the same result. The transaction is not transmitted to litepaid and I don't get the screen to select the coin etc.

I don't know what to do anymore. I entered the API that litepaid gave me, I even have two of them and tried them both. I am simply stuck.
Can you help me?

The Zen Cart store is at http://acoinproject.org/shop/

Hans

Hi Hans,

it looks like they silently updated the API (a currency parameter is added to the API url), but I don't think that's the problem as everything still seems to work fine here.

I guess you have the same problem in test mode?

The "API CALL FAILED" error shows when somehow there is no reply to the API url request I think. Maybe your server blocks the file_get_contents function that is being used for the request?

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Originally Posted by Acoin

I already installed everything twice, first version 1.0.1, then 1.0.2.

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Please note the latest version is 1.1.0, better use that one only (link to the download in the OP of this thread).

EDIT: I emailed Litepaid this latest version last week, but I see they still supply the old version...

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Originally Posted by paulm

The "API CALL FAILED" error shows when somehow there is no reply to the API url request I think. Maybe your server blocks the file_get_contents function that is being used for the request?

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If this is the case: is it possible for you to set "allow_url_fopen = On" on the server? (ask your host if unsure). And to prevent issues like this I think the LitePaid API should be updated to use curl in stead of file_get_contents.

Super! It works. I updated the variable in the PHP.INI file and bingo: I get the Litepaid checkout page.
Thanks for the help.

Great, and thanks for the feedback! :smile:

I just uploaded LitePaid to the server. Strange that I see absolutely nothing new in Zen Cart. Fixed file permissions, reuploaded - same result - nothing. So what is most likely causing nothing to happen?

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Originally Posted by dalesvp

I just uploaded LitePaid to the server. Strange that I see absolutely nothing new in Zen Cart. Fixed file permissions, reuploaded - same result - nothing. So what is most likely causing nothing to happen?

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In the above case it appeared that some files where not copied to the correct location on the server.

Here is an update for anyone that gets the "API CALL FAILED" error, or maybe even no response at all.

Overwrite:

includes\modules\payment\litepaid_api\litepaid_api.php

with the one included in the zip attached to this post, and let me know how it goes.


This replaces the file_get_contents function with curl.

I'd like to thank paulm for his extraordinary help with installing LitePaid to my catalog. Initially we had some problems but paulm stuck with it until it works fine. I strongly recommend his services.

Thanks :smile:

It appeared that the Litepaid module did not show some of the possible error messages, this was related to a bug in the API module. This bug has been fixed now, and a new version will be released (v1.1.1).