VCS Virtual Terminal – Direct

VCS Virtual Terminal – Direct for WooCommerce is a payment gateway that connects via the “Host-to-Host” method, allowing you to capture credit card details and submit to VCS for processing. Note that 3D Secure is not supported when processing transactions in this way.

Requirements

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• An active VCS Virtual Terminal account from www.vcs.co.za
• An SSL certificate
• South African Rand set as your store currency
• VCS must enable hash checking

Installation

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1. Download the .zip file from your WooCommerce account.
2. Go to: WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New and Upload Plugin with the file you downloaded with Choose File.
3. Install Now and Activate the extension.

More information at: Install and Activate Plugins/Extensions.

Setup and Configuration

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1. Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > VCS – Direct.
2. Select and enter your options:
   • The “Title” option allows you to determine what your customers will see this payment option displayed as. You might choose this to be something like “Pay by Credit Card”.
   • Tick  “Enable VCS Direct”.
   • Leave the default “VCS Host-to-host URL” URL value.
   • Input your Terminal ID supplied by VCS into the “Merchant Identity” field.
   • Input your “Personal Authentication Message” (PAM) as per your VCS virtual terminal setting into the “Merchant PAM” field.
   • For debugging purposes you have the option of checking “Enable logging”
3. Save changes.

Troubleshooting

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Transaction failed due to no hash value being returned from VCS.

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Contact VCS and verify that they enabled hash checking for your account and are sending the hash in their response.

Transaction failed due to hash value mismatch.

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Contact VCS and verify that they are using the same Personal Authentication Message (PAM) value that you set in your Admin screen’s Merchant PAM field.

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