Authorize.net plugin is a very successful online payment service including its great simplicity of use coupled with great security. This plugin allows you to integrate payment directly into your WooCommerce site, as well as the ability to pay directly into your WooCommerce administration interface.

The Authorize.Net AIM extension is the version of Authorize.net that allow you to offer your customers the opportunity to stay on your eCommerce site at the time of payment and giving you maximum control over checkout so that you can test and implement the most effective experience for your store.

Features of Authorize.Net AIM Plugin

Easily and Securely Accept Credit Cards

Authorize.net accepts all major credit/debit cards (Visa, MC, AmEx, Discover, JCB, and Diner’s Club).

To ensure the security of your customers’ credit card information, an AIM transaction is ensured through a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection between the merchant’s Web server and the Authorize.Net Payment Gateway.

International Transaction

The Authorize.Net AIM accept international transactions from customers worldwide.

Additional Features

Mobile-friendly checkout

The new version added a mobile-friendly checkout with numerical inputs for card type and security code.

Detailed decline messages at Checkout

It show the detailed decline messages to your customers, no more “an error occurred” error messages instead of generic errors.

Automatic refunds & voids

You can refund for an order paid for with Authorize.Net AIM or void transactions directly from the “Edit Order” screen of WooCommerce admin panel by clicking “Refund via Credit Card” and sending the transaction automatically to Authorize.Net.

Authorize.Net emulation

Like some other gateways that support Authorize.Net emulation, WooCommerce Authorize.Net AIM extension also support this. You have to just enable the Authorize.Net Emulator gateway to use Authorize.Net emulation.

Support Authorize.Net eChecks

Customers having US bank accounts can checkout using their bank account information for a checking or savings account. To use this feature you must have an active Authorize.Net eCheck account.

Automatic Capture

In this extensions there is an option to capture previously authorized transactions directly from the WooCommerce Edit Order screen rather than logging into your Authorize.Net control panel. Just edit the order, select the “Capture Charge” action option and charges will be captured through Authorize.Net.

Payments Restrictions

You don’t require an extra plugin to decide when the payment methods are available. The built-in feature of this will give you the control over the availability of the payment gateway through a set of conditions like customer location, role, cart total etc.

Authorize.Net transactions reports

With this Payment Gateway, you can also avoid all of the hassle of logging in to your Authorize.Net account to get a simple list of transactions. Just download, install and configure the WooCommerce Authorize.Net Reporting extension. After that you’ll start receiving a daily email with your Authorize.Net transactions from the previous day attached as a CSV.

How to Get Started

To start Authorize.Net AIM,

• From your WooCommerce account buy this extension.
• Download the .zip file into your desktop/laptop.
• Login to your Authorize.Net account (sign up for Authorize.Net if you don’t have an account) and collect your API ID/Key.
• Save the collected information on the settings page.

That’s it!

Read More: Authorize.Net AIM

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