Note: You’ll need an active merchant account to start accepting crypto payments. If you don’t have one yet, please reach out to our Sales team at [email protected] to set up your merchant account.
Step 1. Install the plugin
- Download the Pay With CoinsPaid for Virtuemart plugin from the Joomla marketplace.
- In your Joomla admin panel, click System on the left-hand sidebar. Select Extensions under Install.
- Click Upload Package File and upload the plugin.
Step 2. Get your API keys
To accept payments through CryptoProcessing, you need to set up your API credentials. See Generate and activate API keys for more details. Once you activate your API keys, set up the callback URL. The callback URL should match the URL on your Joomla site.Step 3. Configure the plugin
- In your Joomla dashboard, go to Components > VirtueMart > Payment Method.
- Click New to create a new payment method for your shop. Fill out the form and click Save.
- Set:
- Payment name to CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid
- Self-alias to cryptoprocessing-by-coinspaid
- Published to Yes.
- Go to the Configuration tab. Paste your secret key into the Coinspaid secret key field and your API Key into the Coinspaid public key field.
- Select Yes under Use sandbox, Enable payment time restriction and Enable debug.
- Click Save & Close.