FAQ – Payments with Bambora

Find the payment in your Bambora administration through the menu Payments -> New payments, and press 'Capture' on the right. You can capture several payments simultaneously by pressing 'Check all' in the top right corner, and 'Capture selected payments' at the bottom.

Find the payment in your Bambora administration through the menu Payments -> Captured payments, and press 'Info' on the right. Scroll down, and you can credit the payment. You can change the amount in the field if you only want to refund a part of the amount.

Multiple crediting
You can credit a payment multiple times (obviously, only until the full amount has been credited).

This is only possible with Nets/Teller or Clearhaus as your acquirer. The other acquirers will support the feature later.

If splitpayment is 1, it's also possible with Elavon and Handelsbanken.

It is not possible to credit payments made through online banking.

Find the payment in your Bambora administration, and press 'Delete' on the right. Subsequently, the payment is found in 'Deleted payments'. 

Please note that if you delete a payment by mistake you must notify us immediately. We can recreate payments for 24 hours after deletion, but when this window has passed, deleted payments cannot be recreated.   

When using instant capture, Bambora's system captures the payment immediately (at authorisation). This means you don’t have to log in to your Bambora administration to capture the payment.

Please note the legal requirements regarding instant capture: You cannot capture a payment until the product or service has been delivered to either the buyer or a third party (e.g. the postal service). 

If you need to ship products separately, you can divide a payment in to two or more transactions and capture smaller parts of the amount one at a time. You can keep doing this until the full amount has been captured.

When using split payments, the full amount is not reserved (which is standard procedure). Instead, the payment is only approved, and the payment card validated. You can capture a part of the amount as each item is shipped.

The parameter splitpayment must be sat at 1 to use split payments.

Please note: Split payments only work with Nets/Teller.

If you’ve changed banks or opened up a new bank account, you have to inform your acquirer. The acquirers are the ones handling the actual money transfer.

Bambora
Swedbank
Handelsbanken
Elavon

Usually there’s a certain time interval before the money is available on your bank account. The length of the time interval depends on your acquirer.

This is a general overview of the time it takes from you capture a payment until you get the money.

If your acquirer is Bambora:
Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club = Usually 2 banking days, but it varies from business to business.

If your acquirer is Nets/Teller:
Dankort + eDankort = 1-2 banking days
Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro, JCB, American Express, Diners Club = up to 28 banking days

If your acquirer is Elavon:
Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club = Usually they settle payments every 7 days.

If your acquirer is Handelsbanken):
Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club = Usually they settle payments every 7 days. It varies from business to business.

If your acquirer is Swedbank:
Visa, MasterCard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club = Usually 10-14 banking days. It varies from business to business.

Unfortunately, Maestro is not compatible with recurring payments, but can only be used for normal payments. Maestro is the only payment card with these rules, and most businesses do not accept Maestro card for recurring payments for this very reason.

When a customer places an order on your website, Bambora's payment window opens. The customer enters his/her payment card information and completes the purchase. The amount is reserved on the customer’s card, and the payment is authorised.

You capture the amount (transfer it to your bank account) from Bambora's administration or your own shop system. Bambora now sends the card information to your acquirer, and the acquirer transfers the amount from the customer’s account to your account. Be aware that it might take up to 28 banking days before the money arrives on your account, depending on your acquirer. Usually, the money is available on your account within 2-3 days.

A payment request is an email with a link or a button which starts a payment. You can send it to your customers from the Bambora administration via Payment request in the left menu. Here you can read more about payment requests and try creating one for testing.

It may be useful to use a payment request if, for instance, you need to capture an amount larger than the authorised amount or you want to create a subscription.

When using payment requests, you can collect customer data, e.g. address, company registration number, and email.

There are three ways of sending payment requests:

1. Email
You can send an email from the Bambora administration to your customers. The email contains a link which starts the payment process.

2. Payment link
You can create a link which starts the payment process. It is up to you how to deliver this link to your customer.

3. Payment button
You can create a button (a piece of HTML) which can be inserted onto your website or in an email. The button starts the payment process.

WebPay is an online terminal for payments with card information which you receive orally or by telephone. You enter the card information in the terminal, the transaction is carried out, and the order is paid.

The WebPay terminal comes in handy if you’re selling by mail order and participating in trade fairs. Read more about WebPay and how to get started here.

If you want to change the text which appears on your customer’s bank statement, you have to contact your acquirer. They handle the money transfer and all your banking information.

Probably because “Unique order ID” is not activated on your Bambora account. This means that it is possible for multiple payments to obtain the same order number in the system – which typically happens if the customer updates his or her browser during the payment process. 

You change this setting from your Bambora administration in the menu Settings -> Payment system. Activate “Unique order ID” in the settings for the payment system. Subsequently, each payment obtains a unique order ID. 

Please note that "Unique order ID" only applies to the last 24 hours.

You delete all test payments from the menu Settings -> Payment system in the Bambora administration. 

Find the box “Settings for displays” at the bottom of the page, check “Remove/delete all test payments”, and press ‘Update settings for displays’. All your test payments are now deleted.

If Visa or MasterCard was used, it might take up to 30 days before the customer’s bank releases the amount. Unfortunately, the processing time varies from bank to bank, and only the banks are able to influence this. You did the right thing crediting the amount.

You can read more about the problem here (in Danish).

You can use groups to divide payments into different categories. This is handy if your company has several departments and each department’s access should be limited, for instance, to payments that are completed through a specific domain.

You can associate your Bambora users to specific groups, thus assigning a user for each department.

Create groups in two ways:

1. Create groups from the Bambora administration in the menu Settings -> Groups. Enter the name of the group, and press ‘Create group’.

2. Create groups by using the parameter group. If the group doesn’t exist, it is automatically created when you use it for the first time.

Yes, you can. There are two ways of setting this up:

Simple

1. Log in to your Bambora administration, and choose Settings -> Logins in the left menu.

2. Click ‘Edit’ by your username.

3. Enter your email address in the field, and put “Email conducted by payment” at yes to receive an email at every completed payment.

4. Save your changes by pressing ‘Save information’ at the bottom of the page.

Advanced

Use the parameter mailreceipt to receive an email. Simply enter your email address as the value of mailreceipt.

If you cannot capture/credit a payment and are faced with error message 946, communication errors at Nets/Teller's are the cause. You have to contact Nets/Teller and have them capture/credit the payment(s) manually.

You can contact Nets/Teller on their website https://www.teller.com.

Please have the following information ready:

• Your merchant number
• Description, such as “Nets declines capture with error code 946”
• Date
• Order ID
• Amount

When the payment has been captured/credited manually by Nets, you can contact Bambora and we will move the payment to Captured payments in your Bambora administration.

Error code 4109 occurs when the 3D Secure validation fails. 

The cardholder has to contact her bank to enquire if the card is valid for 3D Secure. If not, the card cannot be used with 3D Secure, and the cardholder must pay using a different card.

If the card is valid for 3D Secure, please contact your acquirer for more information. 

When you create a subscription, you might experience a transaction of 1 unit, e.g. 1 euro, 1 dollar, 1 pound etc. This amount will be released and go back to the cardholder.

Please note that when using Swedbank, it may take up to a month until the amount is released.

You can mark your payments booked or unbooked (= unrecorded/unrecognised) in Payments -> Captured payments so your accountant can keep track of your recorded payments.

In other words it is a tool that makes your accountant’s job easier.

If you get the error message ‘No payment methods available’, it’s because your currency is not Danish krone (DKK).

With a merchant agreement for Danish payment cards (Dankort and Visa/Dankort) or a Light account with Bambora, you can only accept payments in DKK.

You change the currency in your shop system. 

To accept international payment cards, you need a specific agreement with an acquirer.

Find your acquirer below, and follow the instructions.

Bambora
You can apply for a merchant agreement with Bambora online here.

Teller
Complete the online form (in Danish) to get an agreement with Teller. If you already have an agreement for Dankort, please include your merchant number when applying. Find your merchant number in your Bambora administration under Settings -> Payment system.

Swedbank
Apply online here (in Danish).

Handelsbanken
Contact your bank adviser to get an agreement with Handelsbanken.

Please note

When you apply for an agreement, please state that you want to use Bambora as your payment gateway. We will receive a copy of the agreement. When we receive the agreement, we will activate it on your Bambora account and upgrade your account to Pro or Business (if you have a Light account now).

Please let us know when you apply for an agreement and tell us whether you want a Pro or Business account (click here to compare them).

We will not upgrade your account until your merchant agreement is active.

We're closing the relay solution as Visa and MasterCard have changed their requirements for payment gateways. According to their new requirements, the specific integration method used for the relay solution is now illegal.

This change affects all payment gateways using this specific method. 

Bambora will close the relay solution on December 31, 2014.
If you’re using the relay solution, you will no longer be able to accept payments through this solution from this date. 

If you want to be able to accept payments, please switch to our new payment window. Simply switch the code that opens the relay solution with a piece of code that opens the payment window. Click here to see how you integrate our payment window.

Your developer will be able to help you make the switch.

We recommend you switch to the payment window as soon as possible.

Open source modules
If you’re using an open source module, please upgrade to the latest version of the module. You can download the module from our guides – click here for a list of all guides for our modules.

If you experience timeouts or get an error message (e.g. ‘Could not connect to host’) when you open an order in your e-commerce solution, it’s possible that your shop server has cached our WSDL (web service reference) and attempts to manage your payments through an address that's incorrect.

You can solve the problem by emptying the cache on the server. When you’ve emptied the cache, your system will extract the correct address as your web service client (soap client) communicates with Bambora.

You can insert this piece of code to empty your cache:

ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", 0);

Click here to read more.

Alternatively, contact your hosting provider for help.

Occasionally, a payment with MasterCard or Visa will appear twice on the cardholder’s bank statement. 

The reason for this double entry is that when a payment is completed, the amount is reserved (but not captured) on the bank account. That’s the first entry. When the business captures the payment, this will appear, too, on the cardholder’s bank statement. Hence, it looks like the payment was made twice.

However, if you make the cardholder go to their online banking system, they can find detailed information about each payment and verify that one is a reservation and the other the actual payment.

Please notice: The customer’s bank will delete the reservation (the first entry) from the bank statement. This usually takes up to 30 banking days.

Error code -1003 occurs when you’ve not opened up for your IP address in our system. Log on to your Bambora administration, and go to API/Webservices -> Access. Here you can add the IP address on which your system is located. 

If you’re using an old browser, you might experience problems opening Bambora's payment window.

Many old browsers don’t support the newest security standards that we are obliged to meet. 

Old browsers are e.g. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 28.0 or Google Chrome 40.0 – and all earlier versions.

On June 9, 2015, we'll begin upgrading our server certificate from SHA-1 to SHA-256 (SHA-2).

Find a SHA-256 combatibility list for browsers and operating systems (OS) here: https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/articles/1499561-sha-256-compatibility 

Moreover, Microsoft and Google stopped supporting and updating the older versions of their browsers. You should switch to a newer version for your own security's sake. 

The "description" field in the administration panel does not support special characters, such as æ, ø, and å. We recommend using only characters from the ASCII tabel. In case you should need to write, for instance, æ, ø, or å, you could write ae, oe, or aa instead.

The MobilePay App will always return to the device's default browser when the payment is completed in the App.

Example: if the payment is initiated in Chrome, and the default browser is Safari, the MobilePay will open Safari when the payment is finalized even though it started in Chrome. The payment will be completed, but the originating browser (in this example Chrome) will keep on waiting and should be closed.

Bambora Online Classic do not support App Switch so when the payment is completed in the MobilePay App the user will be returned to the default browser on the device. The payment will be completed but the originating app will never be notified.