Setting up PayU South Africa as your Checkfront payment provider

Learn more about PayU South Africa, including setting up PayU South Africa, inputting credentials, and using test card credentials.

Accessing the features mentioned in this article

Where can I find this feature using the top menu?

Manage > Ecommerce Setup > Payment

What more do I need to use this feature?

• Admin permissions are required to manage Payment Providers.

PayU is South Africa's leading payment service provider dedicated to creating a fast, simple, and secure payment process for merchants and buyers.

Since PayU includes a virtual terminal, staff members in your organization can process invoice payments through the Checkfront Booking Manager. Payments can only be processed through the Customer-facing booking pages without a virtual terminal.

PayU allows processing in-app refunds, meaning a refund in Checkfront will automatically update in PayU and refund the customer. Without this, you would need to manually process the refund in PayU and then make a POS refund in Checkfront to balance the books.

To enable PayU, log in to your Checkfront account and navigate to Manage > Ecommerce Setup, ensuring the Payment tab is selected.

Here you see a list of available payment modules. Locate the PayU tile from the list.

You find it by clicking on the links in the left side menu labelled Available to [your country] or All. You can also search for the PayU tile directly in the provided search box.

Hover over the tile, which turns grey, and click. 

This opens the PayU activation window, as pictured above.

Before continuing, ensure you have an active PayU account, which is required to properly activate the payment provider in Checkfront.

Assuming you have an account set up and ready to go, continue reading the document below.

When you sign up for an account with PayU, you are supplied with the credentials required to connect your Checkfront account with the PayU API.  

SOAP Username

Your SOAP username should be entered in this field and will look something like this: 

100032 

SOAP Password

Your SOAP password should be entered in this field and will look something like this: 

PypWCegU

Checkfront Tip SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol that allows programs that run on disparate operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) to communicate using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language (XML).   SOAP defines the XML-based message format that Web service-enabled applications use to communicate and operate with each other over the web. The diverse environment of the web demands that applications support a common data encoding protocol and message format. SOAP is a standard for encoding messages in XML that invoke functions in other applications.