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Payments


For Social Factory, as an user, you can buy memberships which grant you permissions such as adding more friends, joining groups or adding videos.
From the backend, you can add more types of memberships with different properties and you can also add different prices for various periods of availability.

Upgrading your Membership


By going to Memberships on the users menu you can check all the available Membership Plans.
Click on Purchase to buy a membership plan.



Select the membership type and the period you wish to buy it for along with a gateway that will process your payment.



In case you choose PayPal, read the text and click on Buy Now to confirm the payment.



After the payment is received by the website and the order is confirmed, your new membership will activate.

Orders


By going to Orders in the backend you will see the membership orders that have been made. You can manually change their statuses if required.
Orders can be confirmed automatically based on the gateways used, the respective payment processor must support IPNs (Instant Payment Notifications).



Invoices


In the "Invoices" tab you can check all issued invoices for each completed payment and to export all of them as a ".csv" file.



To modify the options for Invoices simply go to Settings and click on Invoices, there you will find 3 tabs.
In the first one you can enable or disable the Invoices and set a VAT (Value added tax) rate.



Template tab allows you to change the format of the invoices. You will find here a text field with a default template that you can edit, below it there are placeholders for different values that you can use.



Buyer & Seller tab allows you to change the details given by "seller_information" and "buyer_information".



Payment Gateways


Social Factory comes with 7 payment gateways already implemented, by going to Settings and clicking on Payment Gateways you can enable, disable or edit them.
For every gateway you can edit its title, logo and status along with the specific parameters.



Authorize
As parameters for this gateway you need to add an API and transaction key along with an action link. For testing purpose you can also activate the test mode for it.



Google Checkout
For Google Checkout you will need to add as parameters an email, merchant id and key, and also an action link. For testing purpose you can also activate it as a sandbox version.



iDeal Ing
For iDeal Ing you will have to set up a merchant and sub Id along a hash key. For testing purpose you can also activate the test mode for it.



Moneybookers
Required parameters here are an action link and email.



Offline payment
For offline payments you need to add some bank details and to select where the user will get the notification, on page, on email or on both of them.



PayPal
In PayPal's case you will need to add as parameters an email and an action link. For testing purpose you can also activate it as a sandbox version.



Sage Pay
With Sage Pay you will find many optional fields that help you customize the gateway and some required ones such as vendor login name, password and action link.





(!) Documentation based on Social Factory version 3.0.0