How to link eWay to your Xero database

If you're using eWAY as your online gateway for receiving payments for your invoices, it's really important to link it with your Xero Accounting software so that you can minimise your own data entry.

What are the benefits of linking eWay to your Xero online invoices?

• You don't hold other people's credit card details
• People can pay your invoices online using a secure gateway (that you don't need to manage from your website)
• eWAY will automagically process the sales invoice as paid in Xero (reducing your data entry and making the transaction ready for you to reconcile) via it's API* connection
• eWAY will automagically process any payment merchant fees in Xero as well as the option to on-charge these fees to your clients at the time of payment

How do I link eWAY to Xero online invoices

First of all, log into your Xero account.

=> Select Settings

=> General Settings

=> Under "Connected Services" select "Payment Services"

=> Select "+Add Payment Service" and on the list, select "eWAY"

=> On the list, complete the following fields:

Name: Your Business Name (will appear on client's statement)

API Key: You'll need to get this from eWAY (see below)

Password: You'll need to get this from eWAY (see below)

Credit Cards: Visa and Mastercard will default, if you also have AMEX merchant ID, you can select that as well

=> Directly via the Xero online API* connection

*API is short for "Application Programming Interface". This is fancy jargon that developers use. For us non-techy people, it basically means one program can talk to another program where there is a common set of information to be passed along. The API creates a translation service from one program to another so that you can minimise the amount of duplicated data entry. Kind of like when you go overseas and use "Google Translate" to understand a menu. :)

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