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1. Register for an Amazon Payments account using the following link:

Register for Amazon Payments

We recommend using a separate email login to your personal Amazon shopping account or Amazon Marketplace account (if you have one).Please have the following ready before you begin: Business information➤ Business name, category, sales volume, company registration and ownership information.➤ Place of establishment address. This must be in the United Kingdom, Germany or Luxembourg.➤ VAT registration details if applicable

Personal information for yourself as well as all business owners➤ Full name➤ Date and place of birth➤ Country of citizenship➤ Residential address➤ Passport or National Identity card (to be entered later through Seller Central)

In addition, you will need:

➤ A U.K. or internationally chargeable credit card with a valid billing address.➤ A phone number where you can be reached during this registration process.

2. Verifying your account in Seller CentralOnce registered, you need to verify your account by logging into Seller Central: https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/gp/homepage.html➤ Using your email and password created in step 1

Support for OpenCartThis document explains the necessary steps to offer Amazon Payments on your website. You will need to create an Amazon Payments account and enter your Merchant ID and MWS access keys within the OpenCart admin area.

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➤ Ensure you are in the payments.amazon.co.uk area using the dropdown box in the top left of the page.

➤ Navigate to “Settings” > “Account Information” or use the alert link from the home page.

2.1 – Enter Passport details You will be required to enter the main contact person details at this stage. Scroll down to “Primary Con-tact Person Information“ and select the Edit button. ID details will be required for all company owners who own more than 25% of the business.

2.2 – Enter Bank Account details To enable funds transfer, you will need to add bank details in Seller Central. Within the Account informa-tion page, scroll down to “Deposit Method” and select “Add”. From the Global Bank Account Information page, please add:➤ Bank Name, Sort Code & Account Number (or new IBAN / BIC format)➤ Bank Account holders Name

2.3 – Additional informationYour Amazon Payments account will then be submitted for review. During the review process it may be necessary to provide additional information such as recent utility bill or Articles of Association. Please ensure these documents are faxed as soon as possible to speed up the registration process to 020 8636 9384.

3. Finding your Merchant IDThis step can be done while the account is pending business verification.

3.1 – Select Settings > Checkout Pipeline Settings, provide merchant ID in your OpenCart backend (see step 5.3)

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4. Creating your MWS access keysThis step can be done while the account is pending business verification.

4.1 – Select Integration > MWS Access Keys

4.2 – Select “access own Amazon Seller account with MWS” and accept the Amazon MWS license.

Here are the MWS access keys you should enter into your OpenCart backend (see step 5.3):

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5. Configuring Amazon Payments in your OpenCart store once your account has passed Verification:

Ensure you meet the following requirements:➤ vQmod version 1.2.3 or later - If you do not currently have vQmod installed, it can be found at http://code.google.com/p/vqmod/ downloads/list➤ OpenCart 1.4.7 or later➤ FTP access to your server➤ Permissions to set up cron job on your serverIt is always good practice to back up your system before making changes. Please ensure your database and files are backed up before you proceed.

5.1 – Implement Amazon Payments module on your WebserverCopy contents of the supplied upload folder to your webserver root directory. Your root directory contains folders like “admin”, “catalog”, “system” etc.

5.2 – Install Amazon Payments from within the OpenCart admin areaNavigate to the installed extensions folder “Extensions > Payments”.

There will be a new extension called “Checkout by Amazon” – click install.

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5.3 – Enter Amazon MWS KeysUnder the configuration section for Amazon Payments enter your merchant ID, and MWS keys.

5.4 – Button configurationIt is also possible to customise the button’s design

5.5 – Rename cba_cron.php to contain random characters for extra security (Optional)

5.6 – Set up a cron job to run the cba_cron.php. Recommended interval – every 15 minutes

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Welford Media DisclaimerThe software provided is supplied “as is” without warranties or guarantees. Although the author has attempted to find and correct any bugs in the software program, the author is not responsible for any damage or losses of any kind caused by the use or misuse of the program. The author is under no obligation to provide support, service, corrections, or upgrades to the free software programs.

Amazon Payments Europe S.C.A., partnership limited by shares, is a company registered in Luxembourg, Registration Number B 153 265, with its corporate office at 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg. VAT Number LU 24448288. Amazon Payments Europe SCA is authorised by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier as an Electronic Money Issuer (licence number 36/10). Amazon Payments is a service provided by Amazon Payments. Payments.amazon.co.uk and Amazon Payments are trading names of Amazon Payments Europe S.C.A.

5.7 – You should verify customers can successfully place an order through Amazon Payments and it can be managed in the OpenCart backend. To do this, we recommend placing a test order on your website.

➤ Log out of Amazon Seller Central and add at least one item to your OpenCart cart (ideally take the cheapest item in the shop).➤ Pay with Amazon Payments using an Amazon customer account (not your seller account).➤ After a few minutes the customer account will receive a shipping confirmation email from Amazon. As the customer account will be charged, you should now process a full refund.➤ Amazon will confirm the refund via email.

Congratulations you have successfully completed the Amazon Payments implementation!

Include the Amazon Payments logo on your website wherever you feature payment providers as well as a banner announcing the introduction of Amazon Payments on your website. Letting customers know about Amazon Payments as early as possible in the shopping process can help increase conversion and reduce cart abandonment.

To do so, please follow guidelines available here:

https://payments.amazon.co.uk/business/material#payment-marks-graphics

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