Integrate With the Acceptiva Payment Gateway Using aLink
ALink is a method clients can use to integrate Acceptiva’s payment gateway with their own website's payment form or third party software package as just the final secure payment step. In this integration process, your web developer POSTs data from your own (non-Acceptiva) web interface to the Acceptiva platform where a donor/payer can enter their payment details on a secure Acceptiva page, without viewing a Step 2 confirmation page or any of their non-payment details, i.e., name and address, on the Acceptiva page. Our platform acts as the payment screen only and then optionally re-directs payers and donors back to your website after a successful transaction. Confirmation and Thank You pages are also built by you and displayed on your own site.
Required Data
To utilize aLink, the client must have the following:
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An a_key (the unique code that identifies transactions as belonging to the client)
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A list of the corresponding transaction, payment item, and custom field codes for their coding. These can be found in the client manager by following these steps:
- In the main menu, hover over Help.
- Under the 'References' section, select 'Alink V2 Documentation.'
- Select the desired form from the drop down list and click 'Go.'
Different From API
Acceptiva's preferred method of integrating clients' sites with our payment portal is by using the Acceptiva API. Unlike Alink, this does not utilize an underlying Acceptiva payment form. The data is collected by the client on the front-end interface they create on their site, and is passed directly through our payment portal for processing. The API documentation.