Krishna Sunuwar

It’s always not easy to work with payment gateway service as each gateway service has different of configuration options, parameters. Lastly, I found iDEAL as weired/tough. You will hardly find documentation in English. So, I thought share idea how I did configure iDEAL Advance using PHP (ING bank).

In summery, it takes following steps to setup iDEAL Advance:

1. Registration
2. Integration
3. Run mandatory test cases in iDEAL test environment
4. iDEAL approve test cases and contract (you should sign up contract)
5. Live account has to be activated (See below Mandatory Test)
6. So, your live sale can be done in iDEAL.

Follow details steps below:

1. Login to iDEAL/ING Dashboard (Given below are URL for dashboard)
   Test environment: https://idealtest.secure-ing.com
   Production environment: https://ideal.secure-ing.com
   Note: Merchant ID and Login name is same for both test and live. But password is different for live and test.
2. Once you login, first thing you need to go to Document link. There you can download documentation and Advance integration code. Documentation is available in English and Dutch.
   Important Downloads:
   a) iDEAL General – Introduction and procedure (Click on link to get manual)
   b) iDEAL Advanced Integration Manual PHP (Click on link to get manual)
   c) iDEAL Advanced Integration Code PHP (Sorry,  no links, ups!!)
   Note: You should be aware about registration process. Look “Registration process (2)” in iDEAL General – Introduction and procedure
   
3. To integrate Advance iDEAL in PHP, follow instruction in “iDEAL Advanced Integration Manual PHP”, there are lot of steps you should follow carefully. In summery:
   1) Generate private key using openSSL
   2) Generate certificate using private key.
   3) Upload certificate to configuration (Login to iDEAL dashboard -> Go to sign up process -> Click on Configuration tab)
   4) Change params value in config.conf which available in /includes/security.
   5) Also you should edit iDEALConnector_config.inc.php if you move security folder then then default.
4. Upload scripts (PHP Advanced Code)
5. Run 6 tests in iDEAL test environment. Wait for iDEAL response on your test.  (See below Mandatory Test)
6. iDEAL has to set live account activate. Now your gateway is ready!!

Mandatory Test:

You should run mandatory test before you can set iDEAL live. Look “Registration process (2)” in iDEAL General – Introduction and procedure. It’s not easy to setup online store to configure to meet test suite requirement. Hence, you can use iDEAL Tester, which you can download from http://www.ideal-simulator.nl/ideal-professional-tester.html.

Once you download scripts, make changes on idealprofessional.cfg.php file which is located inside library folder. Upload scripts to server and access it http://<host>/ideal-professional-tester/index.php

You can confirm tests status from iDEAL dashboard.

1. Login to Dashboard (test and live has different dashboard)
2. Click on Sign up Process
3. Click on Status (You’ll see following screen if test successes).
   

   iDEAL mandatory test results

4. Once you finish test suits, iDEAL will activate live account. It may take several hours, so I suggest you to call their support dept. and ask them to activate (it speed up).
5. Once they activate your live account, your live dashboard looks different as given below.

Note: You should run this test on same domain where your online store will resides.

Note: this post describe process how to integrate iDEAL Adanced (ING Bank) using PHP APIs.

Configuring iDEAL basic is very easy which works with post method by redirecting URL to their gateway.

If you have done for any other Bank or other way, let me know.

Update: for iDEAL Basic click this link