CoinRemitter’s Prestashop Plugin to Accept Crypto Payments

CoinRemitter’s PrestaShop plugin is easy to integrate and lets businesses accept cryptocurrency payments on their Magento-based online stores.

Prestashop 1.7

Cryptocurrency Checkout

PrestaShop is an easy-to-use open-source platform used by more than 700k online stores around the globe. PrestaShop’s interesting features help merchants increase their profits with minimal effort.

Seeing PrestaShop’s vast popularity and demand, we thought of delivering a smoothly operating portal for processing seamless crypto transactions. With the help of the PrestaShop plugin, merchants can directly receive crypto payments on their PrestaShop websites. Follow the process shown below to integrate CoinRemitter into your PrestaShop website:

01

Integration Requirements

  • Users must have Prestashop version 1.7 for the integration.

  • Create your account if you are not registered on CoinRemitter yet.

02

PrestaShop Payment Module Installation Guide:

  • Sidebar >
  • Modules >
  • Modules manager >
  • Upload a module >
  • Select File
  • You need to download the zip file from this GitHub repo and extract it.

  • Then open the extracted folder and find a folder named prestashop-master. Then rename it to coinremitter and compress it.

  • Now go to the sidebar in Prestashop's admin panel.

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  • You’ll get two choices, “Module Manager” and “Module Catalog”, under the Module section.

  • Click “Module Manager”.

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  • A window will be opened that will show the message "Upload a module".

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  • Now select the coinremitter.zip file and upload it.

  • The plugin installation is completed successfully.

03

PrestaShop ECommerce Plugin Configuration:

  • Sidebar >
  • Modules >
  • Module manager >
  • Other section >
  • Coinremitter plugin >
  • Configure >
  • SAVE
  • Go to the sidebar of Prestashop’s admin panel.

  • Click the “Modules” option and select “Module Manager”.

  • Now, you will need to locate the "Other" section in the module manager list.

  • You’ll find a "CoinRemitter" plugin there.

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  • Click “Configure” at the end of the same line.

  • The configure settings page will be opened.

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You will need to fill in the details according to your preferences here:
  • TITLE: The title written by you will appear on the checkout page.

  • DESCRIPTION: You can add a few details to tell the customer something important before the customer takes any step during checkout.

  • INVOICE EXPIRY TIME IN MINUTES: If you’ve set the value to 30 then the generated invoice will expire after 30 minutes.

  • ORDER STATUS: Set the order status when customers successfully make a payment using cryptocurrency.

  • That’s all, save the setting.

04

Create a Wallet

  • Other >
  • Coinremitter >
  • Add wallet
  • Go to the sidebar on the admin page of Prestashop.

  • Scroll all the way down and click "Coinremitter" under the "MORE" option.

    Create Wallet
  • The wallet list page will open.

  • To add a new wallet, click the plus button placed in the top right corner of the page.

  • A new page will appear, where you'll get to see various options like API key, Password, Exchange rate multiplier, and Minimum invoice amount.

    Create Wallet
  • API KEY: Go to the website of Coinremitter and log into your account and get your API key from there. If you have any trouble getting your password and API key then click here to get the understanding.

    Go back to the page and paste your API key into the box.

  • PASSWORD: Type the password that you have set while creating a new wallet in your merchant panel.

  • EXCHANGE RATE MULTIPLIER: The default price multiplier is set to 1. For instance, if you set it to 1.10, then prices for cryptocurrencies will be increased by 10%, and you can set it to 0.95 in this text box for a 5% discount.

  • MINIMUM INVOICE VALUE: Setting the minimum invoice value is necessary, The generated invoice won’t be less than the minimum invoice value. Enter this amount in default fiat currency of your website.

    Click Save, and you’re ready to go!

05

How to Make a Payment?

Note: You can test your integration using the test coin.
  • Once a customer fills in the mandatory details and orders a product, the system will take them to the payment page.

  • They will click the Payment With Cryptocurrency option.

  • If you have modified the title text on the Coinremitter's configuration tab, then it will be shown as an option here.

    Click Continue.

    How Make Payment
  • They can select one of your coin wallets to pay for the product and click place order.

  • Once the customer confirms the order, the system will automatically generate an invoice, which will appear on the customer’s screen.

    How Make Payment 2
  • Customers can copy the payment address from the generated invoice and pay the exact amount to it. Once the transfer takes place, it requires 3 confirmations to mark the order paid. It will automatically redirect customers to the success tab once payment is confirmed on the blockchain.

    How Make Payment 3
  • You’ve successfully placed your order.

06

Check your order details

  • Go to the sidebar on Prestashop's Admin panel to check your order.

  • Select "Orders" from the order menu, and after clicking it, you will see your complete order list. Click on one of these orders that had been paid with the Coinremitter payment option.

  • Click the order and you will be redirected to the order view page.

  • You will get to see the details of complete orders, conversion rates and history of payments there.

    Check Order

Now you are able to accept payments in cryptocurrencies on your Prestashop website.

NOTE: Don't forget to delete the Test Coin wallet from your admin panel and add other coin wallets other than the test coin.

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