Integrate Zen Cart and Forte
Trexle connects Zen Cart to Forte and 100+ other payment gateways using a single plugin for one time annual fee
Forte and Zen Cart Integration Guide
To begin the integration process, merchants should contact their Forte representative who will provision their information to a sandbox account. Once provisioned, Forte sends the merchant an Account ID, Location ID, an API Access ID, and an API Secure Key for the sandbox environments. NOTE: The Location ID represents the same information as the Merchant ID in the Virtual Terminal.
For Live environment Forte’s REST services rely on Basic access authentication over HTTPS using an API Access ID and an API Secure Key as the username and password values. Forte will assign your APIAccessID and APISecureKey.
Take the credentials you just obtained from Forte and navigate to Trexle dashboard, click Payments Gateways and select Forte from the drop down menu as shown below.
Fill into your Forte credential and click Add Gateway. Click the Activate button next to Forte, and it will give you a success message and the button will turn into green. You should see something like below.
Download the Trexle Zen Card module from our github repository, and upload the contents of the files directory to your suitable Zen Cart installation version (supported versions are 1.5.0 to 1.5.5). From your admin panel, browse into Modules/Payments as show on the screen below.
Click on Trexle Payments, then click install
Configure Trexle Payments with your API secret key, modify the other settings per your needs.
Then create a test product, logout from admin, and test the normal customer checkout experience.
Forte does not provide test card numbers but provides a sandbox environment for testing all/any cards without actually carrying out the actual transactions.
Forte Supported Countries
Forte Supported Payment Processing Actions
✔ Authorize
✔ Capture
✔ Void
✔ Credit
✖ Recurring
✖ Card Store
Key Features
About Trexle
Trexle is a powerful online recurring subscription billing platform that integrate Forte and other +100 payment gateways with Zen Cart and other dozen of e-commerce platforms.
About Forte
Forte Payment Systems is a leading provider of innovative electronic payment solutions. Offering unique and scalable enterprise-class solutions, Forte helps organizations of all sizes build, manage and perfect the way they take payments. A truly omni-channel payments provider with solutions for every potential point of sale, Forte offers full stack APIs and dynamic processing services for developers and merchants who seek comprehensive and robust web, mobile and retail options.
About Zen Cart
Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.