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Adyen API authorization #
Authorize test account
To authorize your Adyen test account, you will need to following information:
- Merchant account name
- API key
To find those credentials in your Adyen account, please follow the steps below.
- Click on your company name left above and select the account that says Merchant behind it
- Click again on your company name left above and you will see the merchant account name above MerchantAccount
- Next go to the menu-item Developers > API credentials in the Adyen test account
- Click Create new credential right above and select Web service user
- Click Create credential
- Click below Authentication on the tab API key and generate and copy the API key
- Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Adyen > Authorization
- Set the Test mode dropdown on Yes
- Fill in the Merchant account name of your Adyen test account and the API key you have just copied
- Click the button Click to authorize
- The status should change to Authorized in green
Authorize live account
To authorize your Adyen test account, you will need to following information:
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- Merchant account name
- API key
- URL-prefix
To find those credentials in your Adyen account, please follow the steps below.
- Click on your company name left above and select the account that says Merchant behind it
- Click again on your company name left above and you will see the merchant account name above MerchantAccount
- Next go to the menu-item Developers > API credentials in the Adyen test account
- Click Create new credential right above and select Web service user
- Click Create credential
- Click below Authentication on the tab API key and generate and copy the API key
- Last but not least, go to Developers > API URLs and copy the prefix only
For example the URL in your Adyen dashboard is: https://1797a841fbb37ca7-AdyenDemo-checkout-live.adyenpayments.com/checkout/v53/payments, you should only copy 1797a841fbb37ca7-AdyenDemo. Read here where to find the URL-prefix.
- Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Adyen > Authorization
- Set the Test mode dropdown on No
- Fill in the Merchant account name of your Adyen test account and the API key you have just copied
- Click the button Click to authorize
- The status should change to Authorized
Does the authorization fails? Please check our list of errors for the Adyen WooCommerce plugin.