Allowing Reseller to Use Provider's Merchant Account

Payment system is associated with payment gateway. Both payment system and payment gateway can have several associations. The associations define payment gateways allowed to process payments of particular payment system. The list is configured both for provider and reseller. The associations intended for resellers, are to be marked as default. The list of default associations is copied to new reseller. Reseller cannot configure or delete default associations, but can add and configure own ones. Provider can form a sub-list of associations to be used for own payments.

A payment system (for example, Visa) may be supported by several payment gateways. It is possible to add all the associations needed, because this will be only pre-configuration that does not define, what payment gateway will actually process payments made by a particular payment system. The final configuration of a payment system consists in selecting one payment gateway that will accept this particular payment system in Billing.

Note: if the payment system is used for actual payment processing by any vendor (reseller or provider), it cannot be deleted from Billing. Namely, the payment system is listed under the System > Settings > Payments Processing > Payment Methods submenu of the Navigation tree.

To associate a payment system with a payment gateway:

1. Open System > Settings > Payments Processing > Payment Gateways.
2. To configure a payment system for a reseller, click on desired payment gateway.
3. Switch to the Features tab.
4. Specify currency and desired payment system for it.
5. Click Save.
6. Switch to the Availability for Reseller tab.
7. Click on the name of desired "currency – payment system" pair and click Edit. In the window that opens, fill out the form:
   • The Type of Merchant Account reseller can use group of options allows setting if resellers that use this payment system with this payment gateway, can accumulate funds to own account or not:
     • Own only – Reseller can use only own merchant account to accumulate funds.
     • Own and Provider's – Reseller can select, whether to use own account or provider account.
     • Provider's only – Reseller can use only provider account to accumulate funds. Provider can charge reseller for their account use.
     • Fin Charge, % – Charge in percents taken off the reseller funds entered to provider account. This charge is specified is reseller uses provider account to accumulate funds.
   • A combination Payment System – Payment Gateway can be sold with reseller service plans as a resource. If a pre-configured resource exists, click next to the Sell with Resource field. From the window that opens, select this resource.
8. Click Save to confirm changes.
9. Click Mark as Default if you want this payment method to be available for newly created reselers.