Accept payments and manage memberships with 4Geeks Billing¶

Empower your business with 4Geeks Billing, a comprehensive revenue growth platform designed to simplify and enhance subscription management for both offline and online businesses. Our robust platform streamlines the entire subscription lifecycle, from customer onboarding to recurring billing and payment processing, enabling you to focus on fostering customer relationships and expanding your business.

4Geeks Billing’s integration with payment gateways streamlines the payment process, ensuring a smooth and secure experience for both your business and your customers.

This guide will allow you to understand how 4Geeks Billing works, the API, as well as explanations and integration examples.

4Geeks Billing is the ideal solution for businesses of all sizes seeking to:

• Simplify and streamline subscription management
• Automate billing and payment processes
• Enhance customer experience and satisfaction
• Gain real-time insights into subscription performance
• Drive revenue growth and business expansion

Payment processing¶

To effectively process payments, 4Geeks Billing seamlessly integrates with various payment gateways, including 4Geeks Payments. These gateways act as secure intermediaries between your business and your customers, ensuring the safe and reliable transfer of funds.

To understand how we process payments for your business, follow this steps:

1. When a customer initiates a payment, 4Geeks Billing securely transmits the payment details to the connected payment gateway.
2. The payment gateway verifies the customer’s payment information and communicates with the issuing bank or financial institution.
3. Upon successful authorization, the payment gateway processes the transaction and sends a confirmation back to 4Geeks Billing.
4. Then 4Geeks Billing records the payment and updates the customer’s account accordingly.

Getting Started¶

You must:

1. Create a 4Geeks account
2. Connect and activate a payment gateway
3. Integrate 4Geeks Billing to your platform or website

Create a 4Geeks account¶

To start using 4Geeks Billing to manage your subscriptions and payments, you’ll need to create an account. The process is quick and easy, and you can get started in just a few minutes.

1. Open your web browser and navigate to the 4Geeks Console.
2. On the account creation page, enter your personal and business information.
3. Review and agree to the terms and conditions.
4. Click the “Create Account” button.

Once completed you’ll receive a confirmation email.

Connect and activate a payment gateway¶

4Geeks Billing is a revenue management platform that provides businesses with the tools to manage subscriptions, memberships, and other recurring payments. However, 4Geeks Billing does not directly process payments itself. Instead, merchants need to connect a payment gateway to 4Geeks Billing in order to start accepting online payments.

A payment gateway is a service that securely connects a merchant’s website or application to the payment card networks, such as Visa and MasterCard. It allows merchants to accept payments from customers without having to store or process sensitive payment card information themselves.

There are many different payment gateways available, each with its own fees, features, and requirements. Some popular payment gateways include Stripe, PayPal, Braintree or 4Geeks Payment Gateway.

To connect a payment gateway to 4Geeks Billing, merchants will need to create an account with the payment gateway and obtain their API credentials. They will then need to enter these credentials into 4Geeks Billing’s settings. Once the payment gateway is connected, merchants can start accepting payments through their website or application.

Follow this steps in order to connect a payment gateway:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Click on Payment Gateways from menu.
3. Select a payment gateway from list.
4. Enter valid credentials.

Browse the full available payment gateway list in order to get specific connection steps and requirements.

Integrate 4Geeks Billing to your platform or website¶

To accept payments 4Geeks provides multiple ways to integrate to mobile apps, websites and platforms:

• no-code tools (outside your website)
• payments on your website

No-code tools¶

It is relatively easy to accept online payments via no-code tools. There are several no-code platforms that offer built-in payment processing capabilities, such as Squarespace, Shopify, Wix, and Weebly. These platforms allow users to create online stores or websites and accept payments without the need for extensive technical knowledge or coding skills.

We’ve made it easy to accept payments without the hassle of developing complex transactional systems. You don’t need technical knowledge or expensive equipment to start accepting online payments in your online store, billing software or customer management system.

If you’re looking for 4Geeks Billing integration and don’t want to go through the hassle of technical programming knowledge, then look no further than our list of platforms. There’s no limit to the type of business you have or how long it’s taken you to get started.

Payments on your website¶

The simplest way to integrate 4Geeks on custom websites or platforms, is to use one of the plugins for any of the available platforms such as Wordpress/WooCommerce, Magento, Odoo, etc.

Alternatively we provide third-parties client libraries that you can use to integrate the API with your platform in a few lines of code. These libraries are maintained and supported, for the most part, by the community, for languages such as Ruby on Rails, Python, . NET and Go. However, you can always consume the API using HTTP methods, or write your own libraries.

The following example is a simple charge, which does not require you to register cards or customers.

curl 'https://api.4geeks.io/v1/charges/simple/create/' \
    -X POST \
    -H 'authorization: bearer PdSKf04xi9LEcvcwIAdbWAXVg380Kz' \
    -F 'amount=800.55' \
    -F 'description=Desc for Simple' \
    -F 'entity_description=Desc for Simple' \
    -F 'currency=usd' \
    -F 'credit_card_number=4242424242424242' \
    -F 'credit_card_security_code_number=123' \
    -F 'exp_month=11' \
    -F 'exp_year=2020'

Check all the available endpoints, as well as specific examples for each endpoint in the API reference.

Go to API Reference

Sandbox¶

This is so that each developer can ensure that the business flow runs as expected by performing the runs as expected by performing the necessary number of simulations. In this mode you can use the test cards, which we provide for you to simulate the complete purchase flow before loading real cards.

When you create your account, you will also have access to Console; this will allow you to view all your transaction data interactively. will allow you to view all your transaction data interactively, with graphics and other resources in real time.

Pricing¶

4Geeks Billing itself doesn’t cost anything to set up or use. It’s kind of like having a fancy mailbox to receive payments. However, there’s a charge whenever a customer uses a credit or debit card to pay through 4Geeks Billing. This fee covers the cost of processing the transaction securely behind the scenes. It’s similar to how most stores pay a small percentage of each credit card purchase to the credit card company.