Supported payment gateways

Sessionboard supports over 100 payment gateways. When adding a new gateway, you can choose from the following featured providers:

Stripe — Cards, wallets, and bank transfers.
Braintree — PayPal, Venmo, and cards.
Authorize.net — Cards and eChecks.
PayPal Commerce — PayPal, Pay Later, and Venmo.
BluePay — Cards and ACH (Fiserv).
BlueSnap — Cards.

These descriptions are what each provider supports, not what your submitters can pay with — see What can submitters pay with? below. Any other gateway on the full list is connected by the Sessionboard team; the Add Gateway screen says Don’t see yours? Reach out to us.

Connect a gateway under your organization’s Settings → Payment Settings → Add Gateway. The steps are in Awards pricing, payments & invoices. Payment Settings is in every organization’s settings, with or without Awards; anyone who can update organization settings can open it, and adding or changing a gateway needs the Manage payment gateways permission. The same gateways serve awards fees, submission form fees and registration.

Payment Settings with active, test-mode and currency counts, the Add Gateway button and a gateway in Test Mode

Why use it

Check this list before you set up paid submissions, so you can keep using the payment processor your finance team already works with. It also tells you what submitters can pay with at checkout, and the extra settings BluePay and BlueSnap need before they take a real payment.

BluePay (Fiserv) setup

BluePay asks for your 12-digit Account ID and 32-character Secret Key. In the BluePay Gateway Manager, open Administration → Accounts → List, open the account, and copy both values.

After saving the gateway, open its ⋯ menu and choose Send $1.00 test charge. Sessionboard authorizes $1.00 and voids it immediately, so nothing settles. This is the only check that reaches the processor, and it catches account settings such as the hash type that Test Connection cannot. On a live gateway, use a real card you control; some banks show the voided hold as pending for a few days.

BluePay has no separate sandbox account. Test Mode runs your existing account in BluePay’s TEST mode, where no money moves: BluePay approves odd-dollar amounts (for example $1.00 or $65.00) and declines even-dollar amounts (for example $2.00), so use an odd amount to see a successful test payment. Turn Test Mode off to take real payments.

BlueSnap setup

BlueSnap asks for an API Username and API Password. In the BlueSnap Merchant Portal, open Settings → API Settings, create API credentials and copy both values. The password is sent to the payment processor once and is never shown again. Sessionboard takes card payments through BlueSnap.

Step 2 of Add Payment Gateway for BlueSnap, with Gateway Nickname, API Username, API Password and the Test Mode switch

BlueSnap sandbox and production are separate accounts. Turn on Test Mode and use API credentials from sandbox.bluesnap.com to test; turn it off and use credentials from cp.bluesnap.com to take real payments. Credentials from one don’t work in the other. BlueSnap credentials aren’t checked when you save the gateway, so open its ⋯ menu and choose Send $1.00 test charge to confirm they work.

What can submitters pay with?

Checkout takes credit and debit cards only, whichever gateway you connect. The payment form asks for a card number, expiry and security code; Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo and bank transfers (ACH or eCheck) are not offered at checkout, even when your gateway supports them.

When a promo code brings the total to $0, checkout completes without asking for a card.

Full list of supported gateways

If you need to connect another, here’s the full list of Supported Gateways:

Acapture
Adyen
Airwallex
Authorize.net
Bambora Asia-Pacific
Bambora North America
Banco Sabadell
Barclaycard Smartpay
Barclays ePDQ Extra Plus
BBVA (formerly CatalunyaCaixa, via Redsys)
BluePay
BlueSnap
Borgun
BPoint
Braintree
BridgePay
CardConnect
Cardstream
CASHnet
Cayan
Cecabank
CenPOS
Checkout.com
Clearhaus
CommerceHub
Conekta
Creditcall
CyberSource
CyberSource REST
Datatrans (Planet)
Decidir
Decidir Plus
Diamond Mind
DIBS
dLocal
EBANX
E-comprocessing
Elavon
ePay
eWAY
eWAY Rapid
Fat Zebra
Fibonatix
First Pay
FlexFactor (FlexCharge)
Forte
Fortis
Global Iris
Global Transport
Heartland Payment Systems
HiPay
iATS Payments
IPG
iVeri
IXOPAY
JetPay
JetPay V2
Kushki
Latitude19
LoanPaymentPro
MasterCard Payment Gateway Service (formerly DataCash)
MasterCard Payment Gateway Service (formerly MIGS)
MasterCard Gateway (formerly TNS)
maxiPago!
MercadoPago
Merchant e-Solutions
Merchant Partners
Merchant Warrior
Mercury
MIT
Moka
MONEI
Moneris
Mundipagg
MultiPay
NAB Transact
NETbilling
NetPay
NMI
Nomupay
Nuvei (formerly SafeCharge)
Nuvei REST
Openpay
Orbital (Chase Paymentech)
Pay.com
PAYARC
PayConex
Payeezy
Payeezy (formerly GGE4)
PayEx
PayFabric
PayFacto (formerly CT-Payment)
Payflow Pro
PayJunction
Paymentez
Paymill
PayPal
PayPal Commerce Platform
Paysafe
Paysafe (formerly Optimal Payments)
Paystation
PayTrace
PayU Latam
PayVector
Payway
Pin Payments
Plexo
PPRO
Priority
ProPay
PsiGate
Quantum
Quickbooks
QuickPay V10
Qvalent
Rapyd
Reach
Realex
Redsys Rest
S5
Sage Payment Solutions
SagePay
SecureNet
SecurePay Australia
Shift4
Shift4 (formerly Credorax)
Simetrik
SnapPay
Spreedly Test
Stripe
Stripe Payment Intents
SumUp
TransFirst
TransFirst Transaction Express
TrustCommerce
TrustPayments
USA ePay
Vanco
Vantiv eCommerce (formerly Litle)
Vantiv Express (formerly Element)
Versapay
VisaNet Peru
vPOS
VR Payment (formerly CardProcess)
WePay
Windcave (formerly Payment Express)
Wirecard
Wompi
WorldPay
WorldPay US
Worldline (formerly Global Collect)
Worldline (formerly Ogone)
X Pay

If your preferred gateway is not listed or you need help connecting it, reach out to the Sessionboard team at support@sessionboard.com for assistance.