Hi Everyone,

As the manager of X-Payments project I am happy to announce that brand new X-Payments 2.0 has been released today!

So what’s new in X-Payment 2.0?

New payment gateways

These new payment gateway integrations are backward compatible with older X-Payments connector modules for older X-Cart version so if you change your X-Payments v1 to X-Payments v2 you do not need to upgrade your X-Cart (though we recommend doing that – see below why 😉 )

Now you can charge “stored” customers’ credit cards and sell subscriptions

Have you ever found yourself in either of below situations?

• You sell services where the final price is defined after the service has been rendered
• You receive phone calls from returning customers who want to make a new order from you and ask you to charge their credit card you have on file
• You just want to make repeat orders easy for your numerous returning customers
• You sell subscriptions for services or some special sort of products that you deliver to customers periodically

According to PCI DSS requirements, storing customers’ credit cards is not allowed for regular merchants unless they invest tons of money to implement all the PCI DSS requirements to secure their server environment, network and applications, Moreover, to have the ability to save customer credit cards on file for future re-using, they will need to pass an expensive and time consuming procedure of certification. This is a real headache (X-Payments is PA-DSS certified, and being a direct participant, I’m pretty acquainted with this procedure), which you can avoid, if you use X-Payments.

With X-Payments 2.0 you can charge customer credit cards again (for new orders or for subscriptions) using the following payment gateways:

• Authorize.Net CIM
• FirstData E4(SM)
• Chase Paymentech Orbital
• Global Iris
• Realex
• Elavon payment gateway
• PayPal Payments PRO (PayPal API)
• American Express Payment Gateway
• SagePay v3

And what’s more important – this is PCI compliant as no credit card data is stored in reality. X-Payments 2.0 uses so called “tokenization” that was designed to reduce risks for merchants of all sizes. It replaces credit card details with a special number (or token) that can be used to charge again the customer’s credit card via an integrated payment gateway from the above list and money will go to the merchant’s bank account only.

Recently released X-Cart 4.6.1 comes with updated X-Payments Connector that supports these new X-Payments 2.0 features.

Check new X-Payments 2.0 in action

Saved credit cards for customers in X Cart 4.6.1 & X-Payments 2.x

How to make new orders from X-Payments 2.x back-end

Built-in subscriptions management in X-Payments 2.x integrated with X-Cart 4.6.1

How to create a new order in X-Cart 4.6.1 integrated with X-Payments 2.x

Current X-Cart Next/X-Cart 5 X-Payments Connector module does not support new abilities of X-Payments 2.0, but we are developing a new version of the module and going to have it finished by the release of X-Cart 5.

New User Interface

See new X-Payments checkout forms in action:

PA-DSS 2.0 certification

PA-DSS 2.0 is the latest PCI Council’s standard for credit card payment applications at the moment.

X-Payments v1.0 is certified under PA-DSS 1.2 that expires in October 2013. Those who installed and started using X-Payments v1.0 can just continue doing so for any time ahead as it is acceptable for existing deployments. New deployments of X-Payments v1.0 are not allowed after October 28th 2013 due to the PCI Council regulations for PA-DSS certified applications and we have already stopped selling this version.

After October 28th 2013 for new deployments X-Payments 2.0 is needed as it is PA-DSS 2.0 certified – we’ve just received the final confirmation from the PCI Council and you can see X-Payments 2.0 listed on the PA-DSS certified applications list on PCI Council web-site as “X-Cart Payments”.

In a few plain words all of the above means:

• Using X-Payments 1.0 now? you can continue using it, no worries as there is no need to reinstall it due to PA-DSS regulations.
• Considering a new installation of X-Payments? Go with X-Payments 2.0 – it is allowed for new deployments till Oct 2016 and after that you will be able to use it as an existing installation, too.

That’s how PA-DSS regulations work.

So you have X-Payments v1.0 and want to use X-Payments 2.0 – what to do.

You want X-Payments 2.0 because of its new features – saving customers’ cards, subscriptions, because of its new UI,… well, because 2.0 is greater than 1.0.

First of all give 2.0 a try by playing with X-Payments Hosted trial account – it is 2.0 based now and you can request it at https://www.x-payments.com/trial-demo.html any time.

Then if you use a downloadable X-Payments v1.0 license you need to buy a license exchange in your HelpDesk account. It costs $389. Thus you will receive access to X-Payment 2.0 downloadable license and source code. You can install and host it yourself as you do with X-Payments v1.0 now. Upgrading X-Payments software between versions is relatively easy – see https://www.x-payments.com/help/X-Payments:Upgrading for detailed instructions. You can also request our help any time.

If you use Hosted X-Payments plans – contact us using your HelpDesk account and we will stop your current subscription and close your X-Payments 1.0 Hosted account, then you will need to buy a new subscription to create a new X-Payments 2.0 account.

And a bonus

FirstData sponsors $200 to anyone who starts using X-Payments and FirstData for payment processing! Click the image below to get more details about the offer.