Credit card payment is common today and it is increasing all the day. Ensuring the support of a good credit card processor is mandatory for conducting the business smoothly. A payment processor is a company (often a third party) appointed by a merchant to handle transactions from various channels such as credit cards and debit cards for merchant acquiring banks. 'Vantiv' payment system, formerly known as Mercury payment systems is a payment processor supported by Odoo ERP software. To use the module ‘Mercury Payment Services’ the user need a mercury account.
2. INTRODUCTION
• Credit card payment is common today and it is increasing all the
day. Ensuring the support of a good credit card processor is
mandatory for conducting the business smoothly. A payment
processor is a company (often a third party) appointed by a
merchant to handle transactions from various channels such as
credit cards and debit cards for merchant acquiring banks. 'Vantiv'
payment system, formerly known as Mercury payment systems is
a payment processor supported by Odoo ERP software. To use the
module ‘Mercury Payment Services’ the user need a mercury
account.
3. The module allows the customers to pay for their orders with credit cards. The transactions are
processed by Mercury. It allows the following:
• Fast payment by just swiping a credit card while on the payment screen
• Combining of cash payments and credit card payments
• Cashback
• Supported cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover
4. 1. Configuration
• In order to activate this option go to point of sale-->Configuration-->Settings and enable the
option ‘Allows customers to pay with credit cards’
5. • When we activate that option the “Mercury Payment Service“ module will be installed
automatically.
7. • To configure mercury payment method.
Go to Point of sale-->Configuration--->Mercury Configuration
8. • Provide the merchant id and Merchant password of mercury account.
• Mercury Configurations defines which Mercury account will be used while processing
the credit card transactions at the Point Of Sale. after configuration, Associate the
account with a Point Of Sale payment method.
9. • After setting up mercury configuration create a Payment method. For that Go to Point
of sale-->Configuration--->Payment methods.
• Create a new payment method -‘Credit Cards’.
10. • In the Point of Sale Tab, Select the created mercury configuration (see the above fig).
Select the Type as Bank and also enable the option Active in point of sale.
• To make this payment method available in POS, we have to configure it in respective
POS.
11. • For that Go to Point of sale-->Configuration--->Point Of sale.
12. • Add the payment method in the Available Payment Methods. So that's it..the
Configuration of Mercury Payment Method is completed.
13. 2 . Working
• Go to Point of sale and make an order.
14. 2 . Working
• Then Go to Payment Screen, the newly created payment method will be listed there.
15. • Select the payment method as Credit Cards, then the screen will change as below
• Swipe the card and if everything is right the Payment will be done. That’s all about the
mercury Payment method in Odoo POS.
16. Refer this link for more:
https://www.cybrosys.com/blog/mercury-payment-services
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