Installation Guide for Coinremitter Opencart extension

Opencart 3.0+

Cryptocurrency Checkout

OpenCart is a free and open-source e-commerce platform that provides online merchants with a simple and easy-to-use shopping cart system. OpenCart offers a wide range of features including product management, order management, and multi-language support, making it an ideal choice for small to medium-sized businesses.

Opencart’s beneficial applications inspired us to introduce the Opencart plugin for accepting crypto payments with Coinremitter. With the help of this plugin, merchants can get the benefit of direct crypto payments on their Opencart websites. Here is the process of integrating the Coinremitter plugin into your Opencart website:

01. Integration Requirements

For the Integration process with Coinremitter, users must require to have Opencart version 4.x +.
If you don’t have an account on Coinremitter, then make sure to sign up here.

02. Plugin Installation

1. Download from GitHub.
  - Download zip file from this repo and make sure that you download the latest version of this plugin. Click here for the latest release
  - Make sure that the release is compatible with your Opencart version.
  - Extract the zip file. Now select all the folders like admin,catalog, install.json and compress them and name it as coinremitter.ocmod.zip .
2. Download from OpenCart.
  - Visit this url for official opencart coinremitter plugin
  - You will get zip file once your download gets finished, Make sure that the file name must be coinremitter.ocmod.zip and it must be compatible with your Opencart version.
Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions installer click on upload select coinremitter.ocmod.zip from your path and upload it.
After uploading the file seek for 'Coinremitter for checkout' then click '+' at the end of the same row to add the coinremitter plugin.
Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions Extensions select 'payments' from 'choose the extension type' selection. You will see all payment methods extension there. Find 'Coinremitter' and click on '+' at end of the same line to enable it.
Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions Extensions select 'Modules' from 'choose the extension type' selection. You will see extensions of all the modules there. Find 'Coinremitter' and click '+' at the end of the same row to enable it. Then find 'Add Coinremitter Menu' and click '+' at end of the row to add the Coinremitter menu in the left sidebar.
Plugin is installed to your Opencart store, follow the below instructions to fully activate it.

03. Plugin Configuration

Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions Extensions select 'payment' from 'choose the extension type' selection. Find 'Coinremitter' payment extension and click on 'pencil' at end of the same line to edit it.
You will find the first option 'Extension Status. Select it to Enabled.
In the second option you can create your own Title if you need. It will display to user on checkout page
In the Description tab you can add some notes to tell your customer some meaningful things before the customer makes any step during checkout.
Set Set Invoice Expiry. It is in minutes. So if you set value 30 then the created invoice will be expired after 30 minutes.
In the last tab of Order status you can select one of your own status about what you want to show to customers when they successfully made out payment. (select appropriately because it will appear once payment gets done)

04. Create Wallet

Click Coinremitter menu on admin panel left sidebar

Now you are on the Wallet List page.
You’ll find the Add Wallet button on the right top of the page. Click on it.
After clicking on the add wallet a new page will appear where you’ll see multiple options like Coin, API key, Password.
In the first option of Coin select your coin from which you want to create your crypto wallet.
Now go to Coinremitter website and login to your account and get your API key from there. If you find any trouble to get your api then click here to get the idea.
Get back to the Opencart coinremitter page and select one of your Coin. Paste API key in the box and fill your Password in the box.
Set the exchange rate Multiplier. The default is set to '1'.
Set the Minimum Invoice Value. The default is set to '0.01'.
Click on the Save on right top of the page.
Congratulations! You have now successfully created your wallet.

05. How to make payment

Once a customer creates an order and fills all the mandatory details, the system will take them on the payment page.

Add some products to your cart and proceed to the checkout page. Choose the payment method "Payment with Cryptocurrency".
You will see Pay Using Cryptocurrency option. Click on it. Click 'Continue' button on right bottom corner.
Select one of your coin wallets from you want to pay for your product and click on Confirm.
On the very next moment the system will automatically generate an Invoice which will appear on your screen.
Copy Payment address from generated invoice and pay exact amount from your personal wallet. Once you transfer to this address, it requires enough confirmation to mark order as paid. It will automatically redirect to the success page once payment is confirmed on blockchain.
Congratulations! You have now successfully paid for your product.

06. Check order details

Go to your Admin Panel left sidebar and click on Sales, dropdown opens and click on Orders.
Once you reach the Orders page you will see your multiple orders list. Select one of these orders. Make sure that order is paid using coinremitter payment option.
Click on the view from one order and you will redirected to the order view page.
Scroll down to Order History.In History tab, you can see the details about payment in comment column.
There you go,
You are all set to receive cryptocurrency payments on your OpenCart website.
Do not forget to delete the Test Coin wallet from your admin panel and install another coin wallet other than the test coin.

06. Uninstall Plgin

Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions Extensions select 'Modules' from 'choose the extension type' selection. You will see extensions of all the modules there. Find 'Coinremitter' and click '-' at the end of the same row to disable it. Then find 'Add Coinremitter Menu' and click '-' at end of the row to remove the Coinremitter menu in the left sidebar.
Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions Extensions select 'payments' from "choose the extension type" selection. You will see all payment methods extension there. Find 'Coinremitter' and click on '-' at end of the same line to disable it.
Go to the admin panel left sidebar Extensions installer file, then seek for 'Coinremitter for checkout' then click '-' at the end of the same row to disable the Coinremitter plugin then click on 'Delete symbol'. to remove the Coinremitter plugin.