Accept payments for your submissions

Setup your credit card processor, build your submission fees, and manage invoices.

17 articles in this collection
Written by Zack Schwartz and Joshua Wray

System settings

Get your Publishable API Key, Secret API Key and Payment Coding for StripeJS

Setup your Stripe connection to OpenWater

Written by Joshua Wray
Updated over a week ago

Configure OpenWater to accept credit card payments

Integrate your credit card processor such as Paypal, Stripe, and Authorize.Net

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Get your Paypal Express Checkout API Username, API Password, and Signature

Setup your Paypal connection to OpenWater

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Accept checks or bank transfer payments

Configure OpenWater to accept check payments

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Support multiple currencies during checkout

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Build your submission fees

Create a basic submission fee

Create a simple price rule with early bird and late fees

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Configure different submission fees for members and non-members

Charge more for non-members via the honor method or single sign on

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Multiply the price by the quantity or value entered into a numeric field

Useful for "Charge $100 per ticket" type scenarios

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Create a buy one, get one free coupon

Learn how to create any derivative of a buy one, get one free style pricing

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Create a coupon code for an applicant

Allow an entrant to type in a discount code or coupon code to get free submissions

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Configure value added tax (VAT) for your submission fees

For Non-US customers, adding VAT tax is quite common

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Add a surcharge when an applicant chooses to pay by credit card

Also known as Processing Fees

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Manage invoices

Mark an invoice as paid

Mark an unpaid invoice as paid

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Make an adjustment on an invoice

Manually change the balance due on an invoice

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Process a refund

Refund through OpenWater for supported gateways, or manually mark a payment as refunded

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

Reconcile payments in OpenWater with your credit card processor

Match payments in your credit card processor with invoices in OpenWater

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago

View log of successful and failed payment transactions

Monitor failed payments from applicants

Written by Zack Schwartz
Updated over a week ago