Payment Providers: Bambora

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Locate: Manage > Ecommerce Setup> Payments
Prerequisites:

• Admin permissions to manage Payment Providers. 
• A Bambora account (more info below).

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"Bambora is an international payments company based in Stockholm, Sweden that processes payments in 65 markets around the world.

The North American office is located in Victoria, British Columbia. It began as Beanstream in 2000 and evolved into Bambora in 2015, joining 12 other companies around the world.

In July 2017, Bambora joined the Ingenico Group, one of the world’s largest payments companies, to further streamline the payment experience. Together, Bambora and Ingenico offer payment solutions that scale as companies grow their businesses globally.

Since October 28, 2020, Bambora has joined Worldline group." ~ Bambora

 

Checkfront currently integrates with Bambora by way of their direct payment method. This provides a seamless checkout for your Customers and fully integrates into the Checkfront back-office app. 

 

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Checkfront requires that you configure Username/Password Validation in your Bambora account prior to Setup in Checkfront.

1. Go into your Bambora account and Order Settings (Administration > Account Settings > Order Settings)
2. For Security/Authentication, select Use username/password validation against transaction.
3. Enter in a new User Name and Password (must be different than login credentials).
4. Click Update.

 

Learn more about obtaining a Bambora account and help with setting up that account here... Bambora Website Bambora Help

 

Having an issue with the integration working? Please check this setting is configured correctly.

With the Checkout Direct Rules setting enabled you must either...

1. Add your Checkfront domain name as an allowed domain, OR
2. Use the Allow any domain name in the approval/decline redirect parameters" option instead.

 

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From the Ecommerce Setup page (Manage > Ecommece > Payment) browse or search for Bambora. The Payment Provider is listed under those available to your region.

Click on the Bambora tile to open the Add-on Setup modal.

 

Add your Bambora merchant account details to the fields provided within the Add-on Setup modal.

 

-- Merchant ID

This is your Bambora Merchant ID as found within your Bambora account.

 

-- Bambora Username

This is the Username configured for use with username/password validation against transaction in Bambora.

 

-- Bambora Password

This is the Password configured for use with username/password validation against transaction in Bambora.

 

-- Hash Key

This is your Bambora Hashkey as found within your Bambora account.

 

-- Enable Interac Online

Choose this option, if you want to accept INTERAC® Online through Checkfront facilitated by the Bambora service.

 

-- Interac Merchant ID

This is your Interac Merchant ID as found within your Bambora account.

 

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Bambora offers two types of merchant accounts: a Production account and a Test account. We recommend that you test your checkout end-to-end with a Test account before switching over to your Production account and putting your site live. 

 

You can create a Bambora test account here... Create a Test Account

 

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You can find a full list of supported credit card numbers within this Bambora help article: How do I test credit cards?

 

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Canada (and Bambora) has made Card Security Codes (CVV, CVV2, CVD, CVC...) mandatory for all card-not-present transactions, so the corresponding setting Require CVC's for staff payments (Mange > Ecommere Setings> has been disabled and Credit Security Codes are now required for all Staff-side payments. Learn more here.

 

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If Bambora is enabled with Stripe, Stripe is considered the Primary gateway and Bambora will be a Secondary gateway, used for debit transactions only. You also need to configure Bambora with the Enable Interac Online option enabled (with a valid Interac Merchant ID) to fully enable the Secondary gateway.