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How to Activate Authorize.net on Shopify in 6 Simple Steps

Last updated: March 01, 2024
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You may know about Shopify payment, the payment provider recommended by Shopify because of its convenience and easy-to-use characteristic. Besides it, Shopify also allows online store owners to use payment services from other parties, one of them is Authorize.net. For detailed information, keep reading and you will know how to activate Authorize.net on Shopify.

How to activate Authorize.net on Shopify

Step 1: Head to Payment providers

After sign-in your Shopify account, click on the Settings with a gear icon at the left end of the page then go to Payment providers.

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Step 2: Select Change provider

There are two sections in the Payment providers, which are Accept payments and Payment authorization. Press on the Change provider button in the Accept payment part.

Step 3: Click Third party credit card payment provider

Another box will appear then choose Third party credit card payment provider which means the second choice in the options list.

Step 4: Choose Authorize.net

You will see Provider and a drop-down menu below the title of the option. Click on the menu and select Authorize.net at the top of the list. After that, the Continue button will light-up that you can click on it to move on to the next step.

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Step 5: Fill-in ID and Transaction key

There are two small boxes for you to add API Login ID and Transaction Key. Enter the needed information there.

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Step 6: Activate Authorize.net

After filling all your credential information, click on the blue Activate button to end the process.

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To activate Authorize.net on iPhone (Click here)

  • Step 1: Go to Settings Firstly, log-in to the Shopify app. Next, head to Store at the bottom bar and press Settings.

  • Step 2: Select Payments In the list of Store settings, choose the second option which is Payments.

  • Step 3: Choose Change provide In the Accept payment, tap on the button named Change provider

  • Step 4: Tap Third party credit card payment provider In the Change provider box, there are two options which are Shopify payments and Third party credit card payment provider. Click on the second one.

  • Step 5: Select provider as Authorize.net There is a short description of Third party credit card payment provider and a list of providers. Tap Authorize.net in the list.

  • Step 6: Add ID and Transaction key Allowing the use of credit cards means you will receive payments from customers through your bank account. Therefore, you need to add your API Login ID and the Transaction Key.

  • Step 7: Click Activate After completing all the above steps, tap Activate to finish. If you press on Cancel or reload the page before saving, everything will be meaningless that do not skip this step.

To activate Authorize.net on Android (Click here)

  • Step 1: Go to Settings Open the app and tap on the Store at the bottom bar. After that, choose Settings.

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  • Step 2: Select Payments Under Settings, there are three categories which are App settings, Store settings and About. Head to the Payments in the Store settings.

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  • Step 3: Choose Change provider Click on the Change provider in the Accept payment section.

  • Step 4: Tap Third party credit card payment provider Shopify may recommend you to choose Shopify payments as your provider. However, in this case, you want to use the service from another organization so click on the Third party credit card payment provider.

  • Step 5: Select provider as Authorize.net There is a list of providers in the drop-down menu. You can find Authorized.net at the top of the list then tap it.

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  • Step 6: Add ID and Transaction key Fill in the information of API Login ID and Transaction Key in the space under its title.

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  • Step 7: Click Activate If you have completely entered all the needed information, press Activate to enable this setting.

Conclusion

In short, this writing has provided you with the process to activate Authorize.net on Shopify. With my effort to bring you an easy-to-understand and informative content, hope that it can benefit you. You can also refer to the writing about How to set up Shopify Payments on Shopify to compare the two methods then decide which one to use for your store.

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Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.

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