Payment method selection page guidelines

This section provides guidelines for streamlining the payment process for your customers and for optimising your use of the smaller screen space of mobile devices.

Specifying the language and currency

You can streamline the payment process for your customers by including certain parameters with your orders.

Specifying the language

If you know your customer’s preferred language, you can send it with the order to Worldpay and eliminate the need for your customer to select it during the payment process. You can also hide the language menu. Use the following parameters to control these aspects of the payment method selection page:

Parameter

Purpose

lang

Specifies the shopper’s preferred language.

noLanguageMenu

Suppresses the display of the language menu.

For more information, see Initiating Purchase Transaction Parameters in the Submitting Transactions using Hosted Payment Page (HTML Redirect) guide.

Specifying the currency

Use the hideCurrency parameter to prevent the shopper from changing the currency on the payment method selection page. Using this parameter removes the currency drop-down list from the page. Hiding the currency can add to shopper convenience by eliminating the need for the shopper to select a currency during the payment process. In addition, if you offer different currencies, hiding the currency fixes the currency the shopper must purchase in, giving you greater control over the price of your goods or services.

Parameter

Purpose

hideCurrency

Prevents the shopper from changing the currency by removing the currency drop-down list from the page.

For more information, see Initiating Purchase Transaction Parameters in the Submitting Transactions using Hosted Payment Page (HTML Redirect) guide.

Removing the customer description

You can opt to remove the customer description from the payment pages. The customer description is text description you can enter and modify that will be shown to shoppers on the mobile payment pages. For example, Fred's Car Shop. Removing this information can make the page size smaller.

You can remove the customer description in Installations in the Merchant Interface application. To remove it, delete the value for Customer description (for payment pages).

Skipping the payment method selection page

Use the paymentType parameter to send the shopper’s specified payment method with the order to Worldpay. Sending this information streamlines the payment process for shoppers. The payment method selection page is bypassed completely, eliminating the need for the shopper to specify a payment method for a second time.

For more information, see the Submitting Transactions using Hosted Payment Page (HTML Redirect) guide.