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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to configure payment options and taxation within the Infigo platform. The video walks you through setting up tax categories and fixed tax rates, allowing you to manage taxes across multiple storefronts effectively. You'll discover how to apply taxes to products and additional fees like delivery charges and handling fees. The tutorial also covers adjusting tax display settings on your storefront, specifying tax calculation bases such as billing or shipping addresses, and integrating with external tax providers like Avalara's Avatax and TaxJar for real-time tax rates. Additionally, you'll explore configuring core payment methods like purchase orders and integrating third-party payment plugins such as Stripe to provide a seamless checkout experience for your customers.

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Right.

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So what I want to talk about
next is about configuring

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payment options and taxation.

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I want to start off with basic taxation
methods. So.

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It allows for like when we're talking
basic taxation.

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It allows for comprehensive management
of taxes across multiple storefronts.

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Via global and individual platform
settings.

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Administrators can create
and adjust tax categories.

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They can configure fixed tax rates
if that's applicable to where you are

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in the world, and you can apply
those taxes to both products,

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and you can apply them to other areas
or other fees as well.

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So if you delivery charges are taxed,
you can put them on there.

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If you're handling fees
that you might have applied

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or taxed, you can put it on there as well.

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So you can apply the
taxes to different places.

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So if I just search for tax.

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I'll go in my tax settings to begin with.

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Now this is just sort of
there's obviously a lot of settings here.

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We're not going to go through those all,

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but just to give you, an overview
of what kind of things are on here.

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So you have the ability to change how
taxes are displayed on your storefront.

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So some countries might want taxes to just
be included in the product by default.

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You don't need to say that
taxes are included.

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It's just assumed

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you might get others where tax is excluded
and you need to say so,

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or you don't need to say so.

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A lot of those, options will be found
on the tax settings here.

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You've also got the

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ability to specify
what the tax is based on.

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So the tax address

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where it's actually calculating the tax
from whether it's oh yeah.

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Two whether it's billing address
shipping address

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or a default address if applicable,
which is just

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by default going to use an address
which you put into this screen here.

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And no, it's.

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And then coming further down
you have the ability to specify

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whether tax applies to other things
other than the product.

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Pricing.

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So this is where you can say,
oh, we're going to be taxing delivery

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or are we going to be taxing, 
processing fees on payment

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methods or handling and processing fees,
which I'll get on to a bit later on.

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So you can specify
whether they need to be taxed as well.

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Okay.

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So if I go to tax categories next,
this is just where

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we can create different.

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Bands of tax essentially.

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So we're not actually deciding
what to do with them here.

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What we actually do with
these bands will be decided by the tax

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methods we utilize,
just to make it nice and confusing.

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But we do create the tax categories
as a way of assigning different

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things to different places.

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So you might have a tax category,
which is to do with shipping,

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or you might have a tax category,
which is to do with

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shipping to a certain place.

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For example.

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And creating one of those is nice
and easy.

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It is just add value as a name
and say where it is in the West.

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We're not deciding
anything else at this stage.

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I'm. If I

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then go to tax providers

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now, this is where we actually configure

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where these taxes are using

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what the where those categories are used
and what the rates are going to be.

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They're applied to them.

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So we do have a couple of

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external plug ins to external tax

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calculation providers.

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I'll get onto those in a moment.

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However, what I'm focusing on in
this section more is the basic ones.

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So we have these fixed rates tax

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and we have tax by country and state.

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And that if you need to apply a certain
tax rate to a certain location.

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So they're both pretty easy to specify.

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First off
you need to specify which sort of taxation

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method
you want to use as your primary source.

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Go to configure.

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And then if it's the basic fixed
tax provider,

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you can just assign
a different tax band to

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the different

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categories.

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If you're on tax by country

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or state or any other place,
you just adding a bit more information,

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you specifying whether it's a country,
whether it's a region within the country,

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whether a certain postcode associating
that with a particular category.

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And then you're saying what
that percentage of taxation

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is going to be.

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Now that's just setting up the actual
tax bands.

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We need to still apply the taxation
to the products as well.

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That is another thing which is done
on a products by product basis.

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So if I go to my product management again,

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back to my product variance settings.

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Scroll down a

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little bit and you see
we have the ability to select

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one or multiple different tax bands
for this particular product.

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So you are applying this on a product
by product basis or product group

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if that's relevant as well.

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Okay.

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The next thing to mention here
is about tax plugins.

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So we do have
for those where taxation we're in a nation

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where taxation is a little bit
more complicated,

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and the US is the one that jumps to mind
just due to all the different states

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you have to deal with.

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We do have integrations with Avatax

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which I think is how you pronounce that,
maybe Avatax and TaxJar as well.

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And those plugins work.

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So if I go to providers
you see there we've got tax jar

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and Avalara Avatax
I think Avalara is the one I've set up.

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So let's configure.

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That you see we
just put in some authentication details.

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There's other details further down which
I'll keep hidden for the purposes of this.

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Just in case they identify anything.

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And then that's just using
that third party service.

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So when you actually create your basket
and start proceeding through the checkout,

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it sends all that relevant information
to have a tax

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based on source location, based on,

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destination location.

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And we'll feed that live tax rate
back to you.

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You've also got the ability in here
to specify a default tax rate.

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So if it fails for whatever reason,
it doesn't mean that there'll be no tax

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added.

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You can specify what that default fallback

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rate is going to be.

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Now in terms of what the actual end
user will see, it's it's nothing

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groundbreaking because it's just
seamlessly integrated into the workflow.

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So you'll see here for example,
that I have it's available arrival

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VAT as a value added tax.

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Appreciates
called the things in different countries.

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If I start

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updating those values,

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you can see that
value gets updated as well.

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And that is a live feed
where the information is getting sent

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to the third party platform.

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Then we receive back and update it.

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And because that's their bread and butter,
that's their specialism.

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You know,
if you've configured that platform right,

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that's what you're going to get.

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All right, I appreciate it.

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And proceeding
through these quite quickly.

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But just as a reminder, that page I gave
you does have links to additional content.

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If you want more information
on any of these.

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And another reminder,

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do put any questions in there
that you have.

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We'll happy to answer those.

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Right.

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So payment methods.

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And okay so we'll start off with some what
I'm going to call core payment methods.

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So these are the ones that don't
require integrations with third parties.

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And obviously in the vast
majority of cases

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within Infigo
storefront and say third party,

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integrations are utilized,

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especially if you need to take payment
on the storefront.

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However, in terms of the core
payment options,

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these include things
such as purchase order,

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which will be the one
that's active on your platform by default.

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You've also got options

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in there, which, cash on delivery.

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You've got a check or money order and
you've got no payment in there as well.

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So if you default ones in there,

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some of them are best
just used for testing purposes.

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Some of them are quite specific
and niche for specific scenarios.

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Just focusing on purchase order
is that's definitely

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the most commonly used core option.

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So what you'll see if we go to configure

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our purchase order is.

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When the page loads

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is a few additional options in there.

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And this is.

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Just kind of what you want to show
as part of that checkout flow really.

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So what you want to do
with a particular order once it's placed.

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So for example, by default your purchase
if you're using purchase order

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when that order has gone through
it will be marked as paid.

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But you can specify it to be marked
as unpaid.

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You can say whether it's compulsory
or optional to put in a purchase order,

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whether there's an additional fee
that should be added on top of the order

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for processing a purchase order.

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Remember that

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each of these payment options
do have additional configuration

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options as well,
so you can fine tune their requirements

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if you need to.

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And then of course we have the payment
plugins.

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Now you'll see there we have a long list
of available payment plugins.

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I'd say the most commonly used ones
for my point of view.

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Stripe or probably stripe maybe,

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Yeah, definitely stripe.

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So but they all work
in a relatively simple way.

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You're just connecting.

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The long and short of it
is you're connecting your existing

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accounting information with that provider
into your Infigo platform.

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So you'll need to put in the relevant
credentials

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and link up the relevant settings.

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And then it will just

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work as part of the checkout file.

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So if they

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if the customer

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has the ability to select
between different payment options,

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they'll get the payment screen
and they'll have the ability to select

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if they want purchase order or pay now
or whatever.

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And then you'll get the relevant
follow ups.

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Great.

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However, if you've just got Pay by card
or pay by stripe or whatever,

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you're skip that initial screen
because there's only one option

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and it will just go straight
to the taking payment screen.

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So it's all a smooth checkout process
for your customer.

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Okay.

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So again, you can see it's got some just
specific configuration settings.

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But primarily what you're looking for
is the ability to link to your existing

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provider account.
And that's kind of a common theme

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for every one of these third party
integrations.

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But we're going to go through all of these
individually just to to

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time constraints.

 

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