WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin

Our WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin allows you to accept payments via Viva Smart Checkout in your WooCommerce store.

Overview

This plugin uses our Smart Checkout solution. Please see our video overview of Smart Checkout’s main features and benefits:


Features

1 Please note: If offering installments, the value provided by the merchant is not the number of installments the customer will select, and it is not mandatory for the customer to select installments at all. The process is as follows:

  1. The merchant indicates the maximum number of installments they wish to offer to the customer
  2. It is then up to the customer whether they pay with or without installments
  3. If the customer decides to pay with installments, they are able to select the number of installments (up to the maximum specified by the merchant)

User experience

Screenshots

This plugin uses our Smart Checkout solution. Customers are redirected from your checkout page on your WooCommerce store to Viva Smart Checkout to pay, and after the customer pays, they are redirected automatically back to your WooCommerce store.

The below images show:
a) a demo checkout page on WooCommerce, and
b) a demo Viva Smart Checkout:

Shopify Checkout Page
Smart Checkout

Video

The below video shows the user experience from your checkout page to Viva Smart Checkout.

Supported payment methods

Smart Checkout supports a wide variety of payment methods, including:

Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Maestro
Bancontact
JCB
Discover
Diners Club
Apple Pay
Google Pay
Samsung Pay
PayPal
PayPal Pay Later
Viva Wallet
MobilePay Online
BANCOMAT Pay
BitPay
BLIK
EPS
Satispay
iDEAL
IRIS
Klarna
MULTIBANCO
MB WAY
P24
Payconiq
PayU
Sofort
Swish
tbi bank
Trustly
WeChat Pay
SEPA Direct Debit
Pay By Bank
Payment Method Icon - Bluecode
Cash (Viva Spot)
Pay on Delivery

Please see our Payment Methods page for further information on all of our payment methods

Cross-border payments: You can accept payments from international customers for all payment methods except for local payment methods and Pay By Bank

Before you start

Step 1: Create Viva account

If you do not already have an account with Viva please create an account.

Step 2: Find account credentials

Step 3: Create Payment Source

Please refer to this page for instructions on adding a new Payment Source in the Viva banking app.

You will need to use the WooCommerce-specific Success & Failure URLs, as specified at the bottom of the above Payment Source creation page.

We would highly recommend you show your company logo on your payment pages in order to increase customer recognition and trust, thus improving conversion. You can insert your company logo while creating the payment source as outlined above.

You can also change or update this logo at any time. To do this, please see our adding your brand logo tutorial for a step-by-step guide.

Step 4: Determine your payment methods

Determine which payment methods you want to offer to your customers.

Some of these payment methods are automatically activated for you by us (e.g. Apple Pay), other payment methods can only be activated by yourself (e.g. PayPal), for others you need to get in touch with us to activate them for you after a further review of your business.

Setup instructions

Adding the WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin consists of the following steps.

Step 1: Add Viva Smart Checkout plugin to your WooCommerce store

Installation video

Please see our video on how to install the Viva Smart Checkout plugin in your WooCommerce store:

Installation instructions

Add the Viva Smart Checkout plugin to your WooCommerce store by following the below steps:

  1. Download the WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin (ZIP file) to your device.

  2. Log into your WooCommerce (Wordpress) account and navigate to Plugins > Add New:

    WooCommerce Dashboard

  3. Click on the Upload Plugin button at the top of the screen:

    WooCommerce Upload Plugin

  4. In the pop-up window, click choose file, browse to the ZIP file you downloaded in Step 1 and upload this file

  5. Click on the Choose button then Install Now. Wordpress will install the plugin in the background

  6. Once installed, click on the Activate Plugin button. The plugin will be displayed at the bottom of the plugins page

  7. Choose Settings from the WooCommerce menu in the left navigation

  8. Click on the Payments tab at the top of the page to display the WooCommerce Payment Methods list

  9. Ensure that the Vivawallet toggle is enabled and click on the Manage button next to the Vivawallet entry at the bottom of the list:

    WooCommerce Upload Plugin

  10. A Viva-specific settings page will be displayed. Please fill out the fields as follows:

    WooCommerce Upload Plugin

    • Enable/Disable: Check this box to enable the plugin

    • Title: Enter the title to display to customers on the Checkout screen. For example “Viva Smart Checkout”

    • Description: Enter the description to display to customers on the Checkout screen. For example “Make a fully secure payment”

    • Merchant ID: Enter the Merchant ID you noted in Step 2: Find Account credentials

    • API Key: Enter the API Key you noted in Step 2: Find Account credentials

    • Source Code: Enter the Source Code of the Source you created in Step 3: Create Payment Source

    • Installments: This is an optional field, only applicable to Greek merchants – you can set the maximum allowed payment card installments and their corresponding order values

    • Test mode: When checked, the plugin will connect to the Viva demo environment. In that case, use the credentials from your demo account. When unchecked, use the credentials from your live account

    • Order status: Choose what to set your order status to, within WooCommerce, when the payment is successful

  11. When complete, click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the screen and the Viva payment option will be available in your checkout

An example of how the Title and the Description are displayed on the checkout page

WooCommerce Smart Checkout Title and Description

Step 2: Set webhook

In order to receive notifications when a payment is successful, you will need to set a Transaction Payment Created webhook. Please see our setup guide for the creation of this webhook.

Within the URL field of the webhook, you will need to use the following format, replacing ‘www.yourdomain.com’ with the domain of your WooCommerce store:

http(s)://www.your_domain.com/index.php?wc-api=wc_vivawallet&vivawallet=webhook

Upgrading the plugin

Keeping the plugin up to date help improve user experience with the addition of new features as well as improvement of existing features.

Update automatically

Auto-update feature is one way to update the plugin with no effort required from you. To be able to activate auto-updates,

  1. Log in to your Wordpress admin panel, go to Plugins page and search for Viva Smart Checkout.

  2. Click Enable auto-updates link to automatically upgrade the plugin in the future. Viva Smart Checkout Plugin Configure

Update manually

  1. To update the WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin, log in to your Wordpress admin panel, go to Plugins page and search for Viva Smart Checkout. Viva Smart Checkout Plugins

  2. If Update Now link is visible, click it to upgrade the plugin.

  3. Go to Payments tab under WooCommerce settings and Click Manage button to check and verify your plugin settings. Viva Smart Checkout Plugin Configure

Get Support

If you would like to integrate with Viva, or if you have any queries about our products and solutions, please see our Contact & Support page to see how we can help!