Billing Manager

The billing manager tools lets you setup your merchant account for the proper connection between the system and the merchant account provider for real time credit card processing. To use the real time credit card processing system for deposits you must have a merchant account with one of the supported merchants in the merchant account setup menu. Billing manager also lets you create deposits reports for selected time period. Figure (1) shows the billing manager main menu.

Billing Manager

What's This?

Merchant Account Setup

Create Deposit Report

Start Date

mm/dd/yyyy

End Date

mm/dd/yyyy

Figure (1) Billing Manager.

Merchant Account Setup

This link will open a new page to select your merchant account provider and setup your merchant account login and available methods for secure server connections. You will be also able to setup payment method using the online payment processor. Figure (2) shows the merchant account and paypal setup menus.

Merchant Account Setup

What's This?

Please choose your merchant account or billing system provider and also enter your billing system login or username and password. These information will be used for real time credit card processing.

Merchant & Connection

Select your merchant account provider:
Choose connection method with your merchant server:	Test Modules
LWP UserAgent requires module Crypt::SSLeay for SSL Connections. Net SSLeay requires module Net::SSLeay for SSL Connections. IO Socket SSL requires module IO::Socket::SSL for SSL Connections.

Authorize Net Merchant Account

Merchant Login:

Merchant Password:

Quick Commerce Merchant Account

Merchant Login:

Merchant Password:

Planet Payment Merchant Account

Merchant Login:

Merchant Password:

Plug 'n Pay Merchant Account

Merchant Login:

Merchant Password:

iBill Merchant Account

Merchant Login:

Merchant Password:

Paypal Account Setup

Paypal email account is under:

Email account username:

Email account password:

Email account hostname:

Email account AUTH_MODE:

Figure (2) Merchant account Setup.

Merchant & Connection

Select your merchant account provider

The first thing to do for your merchant account setup is choose your merchant account provider. You must have a valid and active account with login username and password supplied by your provider. Select your provider from the drop down menu.

Choose connection method with your merchant server

All merchant providers can only use secure connections over SSL, you can not use normal http connections for transactions between your server and the merchant provider server. Since these transactions carry very important information then it has to be encrypted.

Depending on what modules available on your server choose it from the drop down menu. If you do not know what is available or not, just click on the link Test Modules which will search for the modules and display the result so you can use the available one. You must have one of these modules installed to use SSL connections and do real time credit card transactions.

Authorize Net Merchant Account

If your merchant account is AuthorizeNet then enter your account login user name and password. For more information or to get merchant account with Authorizenet please visit www.authorize.net website.

Quick Commerce Merchant Account

If your merchant account is QuickCommerce then enter your account login user name and password. For more information or to get merchant account with QuickCommerce please visit www.quickcommerce.net or www.ecx.com website.

Planet Payment Merchant Account

If your merchant account is Planet Payment then enter your account login user name and password. For more information or to get merchant account with Planet Payment please visit www.planetpayment.com website.

Plug 'n Pay Merchant Account

If your merchant account is Plug 'n Pay then enter your account login user name and password. For more information or to get merchant account with Plug 'n Pay please visit www.plugnpay.com website.

iBill Merchant Account

Paypal Account Setup

Paypal is not a merchant account provider, it is an online credit card processor. All you need to use Paypal to accept credit cards and also e-check or bank transfers is to sign up for account online in few minutes and you are ready to go with real time credit card processing as well as e-check. For more information or to get your free account with Paypal please visit www.paypal.com website.

Paypal payment integration is fully automated by the program. The user from choose to pay by Paypal from the account manager, the program will send all the necessary information to Paypal site, after the user do the payment will be returned to his account manager and will see his payment has been recorded under his deposit activity.

Users also can send payments directly from their Paypal account without being logged in the account manager, all they need is to send to the specified Paypal email. Later the user can login to his account manager and grab his payment by Paypal using the email address he sent the payment from and the system will record the payment in his deposit history.

Steps to setup Paypal payment method

Make sure the Perl module Mail::POP3Client is installed on your server, if not you must install it. Click the link Test Module to test if this module is installed or not.
Create an email account at your domain for example paypal@yourdomain.com. This email account should be dedicated only for use by the system only, no other email client should check email on this account.
Please go to http://www.paypal.com and sign up for a free account if you do not have already account with Paypal using the email account that you have created in the previous step.
Enter your Paypal account information as follows:
- Paypal email account is under:
  The email account you have created in step one above which is dedicated for Paypal system.
- Email account username:
  This is your email account user name which will be used by the system to check any emails from Paypal regarding payments.
- Email account password:
  This is your email account password which will be used by the system to check any emails from Paypal regarding payments.
- Email account hostname:
- This is the domain name of at which you created your Paypal account, for example mail.yourdomain.com.
- Email account AUTH_MODE:
  This option is used for POP3 email check, depending on your mail server settings, choose the method. The default method which should work normal is "BEST", if your server require authentication then choose "PASS". If you do not know exactly just try all of them but sure one should be correct.

Please note it is very important not to check this email account by any email client like "Outlook Express" or else since this will delete the emails sent by Paypal regarding users transactions an the system will not be able to automatically to record these transactions, in this case you will have to deposit the payment manually from the admin center.

Please after completing all the above steps do test payment and check the system is setup correctly with Paypal to avoid any problems or manually doing deposits.

Under all circumstances all the payments set to your account at Paypal will be available for review in your Paypal account.

Important note, according to Paypal system, if a new Paypal user with unverified address sent a payment to you, the payment will be held in your Paypal account until you accept it manually or deny it, once you accept it you either login to the user account and grab the payment using the user email address used to send the payment or email the user these steps and let him grab the deposit to his deposit history.

Create Deposit Report

This option will let you create a deposit report for any specified time period. This process may be important for statistical purposes which could help in finding the top sales or bidding in specific months, days or over weekends and occasions. This will help you when to offer special offers or discounts for your services to get more new customers and improve your system.

To create a deposit report, simply choose the start and end dates you want to view the report and the program will do it for you.