Payment Plugins

When registrants register for your events, if the event is a paid event (price > 0), registrants will have to pay for the registration to complete the registration pricess.

In order to receiving online payment from your registrants, you will need to config Events Booking to use the payment plugins you want. When you install Events Booking, there are 5 payment plugins installed with it by default: Paypal (Paypal payment standard), Authorize.net (AIM), Eway, Worldpay and Offline Payment. Other payment plugins are paid plugins and you will need to purchase separately if you want to use it. Please see Events Booking payment plugins for list of extra payment plugins which you can purchase, each of this additional payment plugin will cost you 24.99$.

To access to Payment Plugins management page, there are 3 different ways:

1. Access to Components => Events Booking => Payment Plugins
2. Access to Events Booking Dashboard, then click on Payment Plugins icon.
3. On any pages in Events Booking, access to Payment Plugins menu item

Common Tasks

Uninstall un-used payment plugins

It is very likely that you won't use all of the 5 payment plugins come with Membership Pro out of the box, so you will need to unpublish the one you don't want to use. There are two ways to unpublish a payment plugin:

1. Click on the green (published) icon in the Published column.
2. Check on the checkbox next to the payment plugin, then press Unpublish button in the toolbar.

Change title of payment plugin

You might want to change the title of the payment plugin to make it easier to understand to your end users. For example, you might want to change the title from Authorize.net to Creditcard....

To change title of the payment plugin, please click on the payment plugin to edit, change the title to meet your need, then press Save button on the toolbar to apply the change.

If your site is a multilingual website and want the title of the payment plugin change depend on the language user uses in the frontend, you need to do some steps below:

1. Use a language item for title of the payment plugin. For example, change the title to OS_PAYPAL instead of Paypal
2. Go to Events Booking => Translation, press New Item button in the toolbar. Then enter a new language item for the payment method title. Press save
3. Translate the new language item which you just created.

Using icons for payment methods

By default, Events Booking display title of payment methods on registration form. From version 2.12.0, you can choose to display payment method icons instead. Events Booking has many payment method icons come with it by default. In case you use a payment methods which doesn't have icon available, get the icon (maybe from the payment gateway website), upload to media/com_eventbooking/assets/images/paymentmethods folder to make it available for using. Below are list of icons available by default:

1. os_paypal.png
2. os_authnet.gif
3. os_eway.gif
4. os_stripe.png
5. beanstream-logo.jpg
6. os_braintree.jpg
7. os_ccavenue.gif
8. os_creditcard.gif
9. os_eselect.gif
10. os_express_checkout.png
11. os_firstdatae4.png
12. os_gocardless.png
13. os_moip.gif
14. os_offline.png
15. os_pagseguro.gif
16. os_payfast.png
17. os_paymill.png
18. os_paypal_pro.gif
19. os_paypoint.png
20. os_realex.jpg
21. os_saferpay.png

To show the icon of payment method, please click on the payment plugin to edit, enter name of the payment icon file into Icon parameter (for example os_paypal.png, os_authnet.gif, os_offline.png...). In case the payment plugin you are using doesn't have Icon parameter yet, please look at components/com_eventbooking/payments folder, find the xml file of that payment plugin (for example, os_ideal.xml, add the icon parameter like below to the XML file, then you will see the parameter available