This article will explain how to create a Stripe account, set up prices, and check payment reports.
Creating a Stripe account #
To create a Stripe account, visit www.stripe.com, then click the “Sign in” button in the top right corner.
Then, you can:
1. Log in to the existing Stripe account or
2. Create a new account by clicking the “Sign up” option.
To create a new Stripe account:
- Enter the email address.
- Enter the full name.
- Enter the password for the Stripe account.
- Click the “Create account” button.
Once you create the account, click the “Developers” tab and choose API keys. On that tab, you will see Publishable and Secret keys. To display the secret key, click the “Reveal test key” button. Those keys will be used to connect your Stripe account with the GetCertified application.
Setting up prices #
To navigate to the E-Commerce page:
- Click “Integrations.”
- Choose the “E-Commerce” tab.
To set up e-commerce, you must have a Stripe account. To connect the GetCertified with your Stripe account:
- Enter the pop-up title. This title will be displayed when entering a payment card by the candidate.
Example of how the pop-up title will be displayed from the candidate’s perspective who need to pay the fee.
- Enter the pop-up description. This text will be displayed when entering a payment card by the candidate.
Example of how the pop-up description will be displayed from the candidate’s perspective who need to pay the fee.
3. Enter the publishable key you got when creating the Stripe account.
4. Enter the secret key you got when creating the Stripe account.
To set up sessions and training course enrollment and prices, follow the next steps:
- Session enrollment
- Enable setting the custom price of testing session enrollment – indicates if test managers can specify a custom price for session enrollment.
- Select the Add price option (enter the price and select the price currency).
- Remove the price by clicking on the Remove option.
- Training course enrollment
- Select the Add price option (enter the price and select the price currency).
- Remove the price by clicking on the Remove option.
Note: Click on Setup Stripe’s Webhooks to enable Stripe to start sending events to our webhook endpoints.
Checking the candidate’s account balance #
Once e-commerce is set up, the administrator can check the candidate’s balance.
For more information on how the candidates pay a registration fee, please see How to Pay the registration fee.
Dummy credit card number for testing purposes #
Note: For testing purposes, use a dummy credit card number – 4242 4242 4242; enter a random future date in the MM/YY field and any four numbers in the CVC field.
Example:
