1Introduction

This manual explains the installation, configuration and usage of the payment module for WooCommerce and Unzer.

Before beginning with the installation, please make sure that you are in possession of all necessary data:

• User name and password for the login to the backend of Unzer
• WooCommerce payment module as ZIP file.
• Access data to your server and shop

Partial cancellations can only be processed in a limited manner via the shop backend. You may select the option "Close order" while capturing an order, then all items not part of the capture will be cancelled. Pure partial cancellations must be processed via the Insights of Unzer.

The checkout must be served via https for the payment methods to be available.

Note that you must use at least PHP version 5.6 for our plugins. PHP 8 or higher is currently not supported.

1.1Procedure of the Installation

In this document you will find all important information for the installation of the module. It is important that you strictly follow the checklist. Only this will guaranteed a secure usage of the plugin in correspondence with all security regulations.

1. Configuration of the test environment by means of the integration data from Unzer. These can be found on the test platform under https://sbx-insights.unzer.com/
2. Configuration of the basic settings of the payment module
3. Configuration of the payment methods
4. Carrying out of a test purchase by means of the attached test data at the end of this document
5. If the test was successful, you can configure the live data in your shop. Log into the live environment with the obtained access data under: https://insights.unzer.com/

1.2System Requirements

• PHP Version: 5.4.x or higher
• OpenSSL: Current version with support for TLS 1.2 or higher.
• fsockopen: The PHP function fsockopen must be enabled. The plugin must be able to connect to external systems over the Internet.
• PHP Functions: All common PHP functions must be enabled.

2Configuration

2.1Live Environment

You find the necessary credentials in your Unzer Account (https://insights.unzer.com/). You need the following:

• API Private Key
• API Public Key

Log into your Unzer account and go to "Settings > Configuration". There you'll find the necessary credentials.

Figure 2.1: API Keys

Now enter those two keys into the main configuration of the plugin in your shop.

2.2Test Environment

3Module Installation and Update in the WooCommerce Shop

3.1Installation

At this time you should already be in possession of the module. In order to install the module in your shop, please carry out the following steps:

1. Unzip the archive you have just downloaded.
2. In the unzipped folder navigate to the folder "files"
3. For some shops there are different versions of the plugin provided. If this is the case open the folder which corresponds to your shop version.
4. Using your preferred FTP client upload entire content of this folder into the root directory of your shop. For some shops there is a specific folder containing the plugins. If that is the case upload the plugin into this folder. Make sure that the folders aren't replaced but merely merged.
5. If you haven't yet done so, log back into your shop.

3.2Updates and Upgrades

You have direct and unlimited access to updates and upgrades during the duration of your support contract. In order to receive constant information about available updates we ask you to subscribe to our RSS feed that we publish for your module.

We only recommend an update if something doesn't work in your shop, if you want to use new feature or if there is a necessary security update.

3.2.1Update Checklist

We ask you to strictly comply with the checklist below when doing an update:

1. Always do a backup for your database and your files in your shop
2. Use always a test system to test the update process.
3. Wait until all the files are copied to the shop, clear the cache if there is one in your shop and then visit the configuration page of the main module so that the update process will be initialized.

Depending on the version it could be that the database has to be migrated. We recommend you therefore, to perform the updates in times when the shop is not visited too frequently by your customers.

3.2.2Update Instructions

Please always read the update instruction. Those instructions can be found in the changelog. If there are no special remarks, you can proceed by just overwriting the files in your system.

4Module Configuration in the WooCommerce Shop

The configuration consists of two steps. The first step is the configuration of the main module with all the basic settings (cf. Configuration of the Main Module). During the second step you can then carry out individual configurations for each payment method . This allows for full flexibility and perfect adaptation to your processes.

4.1Configuration of the Main Module

You can activate the plugin by clicking "activate" under the module WooCommerce Unzer in the menu Plugins.

After the Installation of the plugin a new menu on the dashboard will appear called Unzer . Enter all data in the corresponding fields. Each option is, furthermore, explained in short info texts in the shop.

4.2Configuration of the Payment Module

After having successfully configured the main module, you can find the settings for the individual payment methods in your shop under WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout (In earlier version it was WooCommerce > Settings > Payment Gateways). Each payment method is listed individually. Install the payment methods you wish to offer to your customers. You can carry out individual settings for each payment method and thereby optimally adapt the payment methods to your existing processes. The most central options are described in more detail further below.

By clicking on Enable the payment method is activated in your shop. For more detailed information on the settings, please refer to information provided directly within the module configuration.

4.3Direct Capturing of Transactions

The option "Capture" allows you to specify if you wish to debit payments directly or if you first wish to authorise them and then debit the payment at a later point.

Depending on your acquiring contract, a reservation is only guaranteed for a specific period of time. Should you fail to debit the payment within that period, the authorisation may therefore no longer be guaranteed. Further information on this process can be found below.

4.4Uncertain Status

You can specifically label orders for which the money is not guaranteed to be received. This allows you to manually control the order before shipment.

4.4.1Setting the order state

For each payment method you may select in which state the order should be set to depending on the booking state. This is the initial state of the order.

4.5Optional: Validation

Note: It can be that this option is not visible in your module. In this case just ignore this section.

With the option 'Validation' you can define the moment when the payment method should be made visible to the customer during the checkout process. This setting is relevant for modules where the usage depends on the customer's compliance with specific preconditions. For example, if a solvency check has to be carried out or if the payment method is only available in certain countries. In order for the credit check or address validation to also work with European characters, the charset of the "Blowfish mode" must be set to "UTF-8" for certain PSP settings.

You have the choice between these options:

• Validation before the selection of the payment method: A validation verification is carried out before the customer selects the payment method. If the customer does not fulfill the requirements, the payment method is not displayed
• Validation after selection of the payment method: The verification of the compliance occurs after the selection of the payment method and before the confirmation of the order
• During the authorisation: The validation verification is carried out by Unzer during the authorisation process. The payment method is displayed in any case

4.6Redirection / Payment Form Error

If the successful redirection to the payment page suddenly stops working or you are only able to see the header and footer of your template instead of the payment form, you might be affected of the following issue. As a first step, you should update your payment plugin to the latest version, deactivate it in the backend of WooCommerce and activate it again.

If you are using WPML it can happen that the page for the redirection of the customer to Unzer payment page results in a '404 Page Not Found' error. In this case, you will have to duplicate our checkout page under 'Pages' in the corresponding languages. In order to do so please follow these steps:

1. Go to the WooCommerce backend and select: Pages > All Pages. There you should find a Page called "Unzer Checkout".
2. Delete all existing pages called “Unzer Checkout”.
3. In the plugin section of your Wordpress dashboard, deactivate the WooCommerce Unzer plugin and activate it again. This will help you to generate a new redirection page.
4. Navigate again to Pages > All Pages. Open the configuration of the new redirection page.
5. On the right hand side under 'languages' you can now duplicate the content of this page for all of your installed languages. When you have successfully saved the changes, this page will be active for all of your languages and the error should have disappeared.

5Settings / Configuration of Payment Methods

5.1General Information About the Payment Methods

The plugin contains the most common payment methods. In case a desired payment method is not included per default, please contact us directly.

In order to be able to use a payment method, it must be activated in your account with Unzer as well as in your shop. Information about the configuration of the payment methods can be found further above.

Below you can find important information for specific payment methods that deviate from the standard process.

5.2Information on Payment Status

For each payment method you can define an initial payment status (status for authorized payments etc.). You hereby define the payment status for each state depending on the processing type of the order (captured, authorized, etc.). It's the initial status which the order assumes. Depending on the mutation carried out by you, the status can change.

5.2.1Order status "pending" / imminent payment (or similar)

Orders with the status 'pending Unzer' are pending orders. Orders are set to that status if a customer is redirected in order to pay but hasn't returned successfully or the feedback hasn't reached your shop yet (Customer closed window on the payment page and didn't complete payment). Depending on the payment method these orders will automatically be transformed into cancelled orders and the inventory will be cleared (so long as the Cronjob is activated). How long this takes depends on the characteristics of the payment method and cannot be configured.

If you have a lot of pending orders it usually means that the notifications from your webserver to Unzer are being blocked. In this case check the settings of your firewall and ask the Hoster to activate the IPs and User Agents of Unzer.

5.2.2Order status "cancelled"

Orders with the status "cancelled" have either been set to that status automatically due to a timeout, as described above, or have been cancelled directly by the customer.

5.3Invoice

The fundamental concept of invoice is that the goods are shipped before the buyer pays the outstanding amount. That implies that the buyer has a limited time to carry out the payment to the merchant's bank account.

In case the buyer returns some of the items, you should create a refund. This does also work if the buyer has not yet paid the invoice. In this case, the outstanding amount will be reduced accordingly.

5.4Prepayment

In case of prepayment, the buyer has to pay the invoice before the merchant ships the goods.

To realize this process, the shop needs to be informed about incoming payments. For this purpose the order is marked as uncertain until Unzer notifies the shop about the successful payment via a background request. This leads to the uncertain state being lifted and is the trigger to go ahead and start the shipment process.

In case the customer decides not to order all items, you can create a refund. This is possible even before the buyer has paid the amount. In this case the outstanding amount is reduced so that the lower payment by the buyer will still trigger the shipment process by lifting the uncertain state.

5.5Instalment

Instalment as a payment method allows the buyer to pay the outstanding amount in multiple slices.

Similar to invoice, the instalment payment method relies on the shipment to determine the due dates of the different slices. You can use the deferred capture operation to let Unzer know when the shipment is ready. In case you like to reduce the amount, you can do this as part of the capture. The plugin will carry out corresponding cancel requests and send the delivery notification to Unzer.
Although it is possible to trigger the delivery notification, called finalize, in Unzer's Insights, we strongly recommend you to do it in the shop's backend.

In case you need to reduce the amount of the slices at a later point in time, you can do refunds.

5.6Secured Invoice

The fundamental concept of invoice is that the goods are shipped before the buyer pays the outstanding amount. That implies that the buyer has a limited time to carry out the payment to the merchant's bank account.

This process has implications on to the shipment. In case the goods are not in stock, it is important not to capture the amount directly because with the capture the shipment notification is sent out and the due date is defined relatively to this point in time. In other words, you should configure the payment method to just authorize the payment and capture the amount once the goods are ready to be shipped. This process is also recommended for other payment methods, if the goods are out of stock. In Unzer Insights, the execution of the shipment notification is called finalize. The finalize operation is triggered with the capture. If only part of the amount is captured, the corresponding reduction will be applied automatically.

In case the buyer returns some of the items, you should create a refund. This does also work if the buyer has not yet paid the invoice. In this case, the outstanding amount will be reduced accordingly.

6The Module in Action

Below you will find an overview of the most important features in the daily usage of the Unzer module.

6.1Recommended Practice

Generally the most of the actions can be carried out from within the shop backend or from within the Unzer Insights. Not all actions that are triggered in Insights can be transferred correctly to the shop backend.

As such it is recommended to use the shop backend to carry out those actions (like refunds, cancels, captures etc.). This way both systems stay in sync.

6.1.1Manual booking on "Unzer Invoice Secured"

In the case of the "Unzer Invoice Secured" payment method, please mind to manually capture the transaction. This would change the transaction process in such a way that you would not be able to cancel such a transaction afterwards.

6.2Useful Transaction Information on the Order

You can find an overview of the transaction information in within the order detail view. Among others, this information allows for the definite attribution of the orders to their corresponding transaction, seen in the backend of Unzer.

Figure 6.1: Transaction Information in WooCommerce.

6.3Capturing of Orders

In order to be able to capture orders you must make sure that you have set the option 'Capturing' to 'deferred' in the payment method configuration.

Open the order and look for the Unzer transaction tab at the bottom. Capturing via the internal operation of WooCommerce is not supported.

Figure 6.1: Transactiondetails in the transaction tab of a specific order.

Click on "More Details" to view the transaction details. By clicking Capture button, you get into the following context.

Figure 6.1: Deferred/Manual capture of transactions within WooCommerce

Enter the amount of your choice that you wish to capture from the customer's card. By clicking Capture a direct capturing of the order occurs with Unzer.

Please be aware that cancelling the transaction does not cause a status change of the order.

6.4Refunds

You can refund already captured transactions and automatically transmit them to Unzer.

Figure 6.1: Transactionsdetails via Orders > Unzer Transactions.

By clicking Refund button, you get into the following context.

Figure 6.1: Refund of transactions within WooCommerce

Just like for the capturing, you open the order and click on the magnifying glass next to the order of your choice. Enter any refund amount of your choice in the field provided for this purpose. By clicking refund the refund request will directly be sent to Unzer and the specified amount will be credited on the customer's credit card.

Please note that you can't refund more than 100% of the original amount.

Furthermore, please be aware that processing a refund will not cause a status change of the order.

6.5Transaction Process

Each action affiliated with transaction management is logged by the module.

Figure 6.1: Transactions in the Overview of the Transaction Process

6.6Using Invoice Details of a Processor

In the following context you can view or embed the "payment details" of for example an "Open Invoice" transaction:

6.6.1WooCommerce Order Confirmation (E-Mail)

The "payment information" will be visible in the default "order confirmation e-mail" of WooCommerce.

6.6.2WooCommerce Invoice (PDF)

The "payment information" will be visible in the default WooCommerce-Invoice.

6.6.3WooCommerce-Backend (Transaction details)

You can view the transaction details in WooCommerce under WooCommerce > Orders > Unzer transactions > More Details.

Figure 6.1: Transaction details within WooCommerce.

6.6.4WooCommerce Success-Page

Figure 6.1: Payment information on the WooCommerce "Success-Page".

6.7Setup a Cron Job to Activate the Timed Operations

To activate the timed operations of the plugin (e.g. update service, deleting pending orders, etc.) make sure that you set up the WooCommerce Cron engine. Especially the update function allows you to automatically retrive additional information or changes of your order directly via the API of Unzer. Please note it could be that in order to use the update feature it may be necessary that Unzer activates additional options in your account.

The module uses the standard cron engine of WooCommerce. More infromation regarding the set up can be found here.

6.8Partial Cancel

If you set the checkbox "close transaction for further captures" then the rest amount which has not been captured will be cancelled.

If you want to initiate a partial cancellation on an authorize transaction and allow further captures to be made, you must initiate the partial cancel from the Unzer backend.

The transaction allows only refunds when the transaction has been closed for further captures.

7Testing

Before switching from test to live mode it is important that you test the module extensively.

7.1Test Data

8Errors and their Solutions

8.1Page Not Found Error prior to the redirection to Payment Page

If you are using WPML it can occur that the Pages for the display of the payment methods or for the redirection to Unzer end in a Page Not Found Error.

In this case you have to duplicate our Pages in the corresponding languages. In order to do so please follow these steps:

1. Go to the main menu and select Pages > All Pages. There you should find a Page called Unzer Checkout.
2. Open the configurations.
3. On the right hand side under languages you can now duplicate the content of this page for all of your installed languages. When you have successfully saved the changes this page will be active for all of your languages and the Error should have disappeared.

8.2The Referrer URL appears in my Analytics Tool

When a customer and the notification are redirected via Header Redirection, the Unzer Referrer URL might appear in your Analytics Tool thus hiding the original traffic source. However, most Analytic Tools are able to minimize this problem.

In case you are using Google Analytics as reporting tool, this step by step guide may help you to exclude the URLs: under bullet point 4.

9Compatibility with Third-Party Plugins

The plugins listed below are compatible with our payment modules and allow you to handle certain tasks in an easier way.

9.1Fee's and discount's within WooCommerce

To configure a Unzer payment gateways based fee and discount you will need the following 3rd-Party plugin.

• Checkout Fees for WooCommerce

9.2Multilingual WooCommerce sites

To run multilingual WooCommerce sites you will need the following 3rd-Party plugin.

• WPML for WooCommerce

9.3Birthday and gender in WooCommerce

For certain payment service providers it is necessary to check the birthday and the gender of a customer. WooCommerce does not check this by default.

10Error Logging

The module will log different unexpected errors or information depending on the configured level. If there is any issue with the module, this log can help identify the cause.

10.1Log Levels

You can configure the log level in the Unzer settings.

• Error: Logs unexpected errors only. (Default)
• Info: Logs extended information.
• Debug: Logs information helpful for debugging.

10.2Log Location

The log file is stored in wp-content/uploads/wc-logs. Please make sure the path exists and it is writable by the webserver.

11Advanced Information

This section of the manual is for advanced usage of the module. The content is for advanced users with special requirements. Everything in this section is optional and not required for the daily usage of the module.

11.1Transaction Object

This section describes how to extract information from a transaction, if you need it for further processing. E.g. you require more information of the transaction for further processing an order in your ERP system.

The code snippets in this section assume your script resides in the root folder of the shop with the default shop folder structure.

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

require_once ABSPATH.'wp-content/plugins/woocommerce_unzercw/classes/UnzerCw/Util.php';

$transactionById = UnzerCw_Util::getTransactionById($transactionId);
$transactionObject = $transactionById->getTransactionObject();

$transactionByExternal = UnzerCw_Util::getTransactionByTransactionNumber($externalId);
$transactionObject = $transactionByExternal->getTransactionObject();

$transactionsByPostId = UnzerCw_Util::getTransactionsByPostId($orderId);
foreach($transactionsByPostId as $transaction){
	$transactionObject = $transaction->getTransactionObject();
	//Do something with each object
}