Take payments on your form with eWAY

Connect your form to your Eway payment gateway to facilitate fast and secure customer payments via credit card. 

Credit card information submitted by form users is encrypted and sent directly to Eway for processing. Snapforms does not store any payment data.

Before you start

This guide assumes you’ve already created your online form using the drag-and-drop form builder. 

If you’re new to Snapforms, we recommend you check out our 10-minute getting started video or have a look through our help guides to learn how to set up your form.

Obtain your Eway API credentials

To connect Snapforms to Eway, you will need to obtain your API key, API password, and client side encryption key from your Eway account. 

Test payment mode

If you want to try out the payment gateway in a test environment, you can create a sandbox account in Eway and link your form using the sandbox API credentials.

When you add the payment field to your form, you can enable Test Payment Mode which allows you to test the payment gateway using the credit card details shown on-screen.

Add the Payment field to your form

1. Click and drag the Payment field onto your form.
2. In the Question (Name) field, enter an instruction such as ‘Pay Now’ or ‘Enter Credit Card Details’.
3. (Optional) If the payment is required before submitting the form, select the Tick if answering this question is compulsory checkbox.
4. In the Payment Provider field, select ‘Eway’.

Add Eway API credentials

1. Click + Add Credentials.
2. Enter the payment provider/API name, e.g. Sandbox or your live Eway Account.
3. Enter the API Password and API Key. You can obtain this information from Eway.
4. Click Save. Credentials for this payment provider are now saved and can be used across different forms.
5. (Optional) Repeat the above steps to add another Eway account, eg. Sandbox or your live Eway Account.

Set your pricing

If you want to charge a set price (that does not change):

1. Enter the payment amount, e.g 70.00.
2. Enter the Client Side Encryption Key for the selected API account.
3. Click Save & Close.
4. Save and view your form.

Dynamic pricing

If you want to provide a range of price options in your form and have the payment amount dynamically change depending on the form user’s selection, follow these steps:

1. In the Payment Amount field, enter a nominal value that will be overridden, e.g. 1.00.
2. Select the Change price dynamically based on form choices checkbox.
3. Click Save & Close.
4. Add in the fields that will be used to determine the final payment amount. There are a few different ways to achieve this (choose one method only):
   1. Dropdown List, Choose One, or Choose Multiple fields – one or more of these fields can be used in cases where you want to present multiple product/pricing options. Each option must include a $ symbol as shown below.
   2. Calculation field – Alternatively, you can assign numeric values (prices) to your product options and use a Calculation field to automatically calculate the payment amount based on a formula. The Question (Name) of this field must be ‘Amount’, otherwise it won’t be used as the final payment amount.
      
   3. Short Answer – can be used in cases where you want form users to manually enter a payment amount. The Question (Name) of this field must be ‘Amount’, otherwise it won’t be used as the final payment amount.
5. Save and view your form.

Store credit card details only

If you don’t want to collect payments immediately, you have the option to store credit card details (without processing payment) in your Eway portal for charging  at a later time.