Accepted Credit Cards

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Accepted Credit Cards Overview

Accepted Credit Cards provides a way to manage the credit card options offered to contributors using your Online Contribution pages. You will need to verify which cards are accepted by your chosen Payment Processor and update these entries accordingly.

Paypal IMPORTANT: This page does NOT control credit card/payment method choices for sites and/or contributors using the PayPal Express service (e.g. where billing information is collected on the Payment Processor's website).

Accepted Credit Card Types

Begin at the Administer CiviCRM page. In the CiviContribute section, choose Accepted Credit Cards.

You will see a list of existing accepted credit cards. You can create a NEW accepted credit card or Edit, Disable or Delete EXISTING accepted credit cards using the links to the right of each type.

NEW

To enter a New Accepted Credit Card, click on the >>New Accepted Credit Card link at the bottom of the list of credit cards.

Type in the Label, Description and Weight. You can enable/disable the option by checking or unchecking the box labeled Enabled?

Click Save to save the accepted credit card.

If successful, you will see the message:

The Accept Creditcard "MasterCard" has been saved..

EXISTING

For EXISTING accepted credit cards you can Edit, Disable or Delete each option using the links to the right of each accepted credit card.

EDIT

Selecting Edit will bring you to the Edit Accepted Credit Card page where you can change the Label, Description and Weight. Here you can also enable/disable the accepted credit card by checking or unchecking the box labeled Enabled?

Click Save to save the accepted credit card.

If successful, you will see the message:

The Accept Creditcard "MasterCard" has been saved..

DISABLE

Select Disable to temporarily disable an existing accepted credit card. You will see the warning:

"Are you sure you want to disable this Accepted Credit Card? Users will no longer be able to select this value when adding or editing Accepted Credit Card"

Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel disabling the accepted credit card.

To re-enable the accepted credit card, simply click on Enable.

DELETE

Select Delete to delete the accepted credit card. You will be given this warning:

WARNING: Deleting this option will result in the loss of all Accept Creditcard related records which use the option. This may mean the loss of a substantial amount of data, and the action cannot be undone. Do you want to continue?

Click Delete to continue or Cancel to cancel the deletion.